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Rosenblum says a Middle Eastern political scientist is now a “top regional hiring priority,” followed by an additional professor of African politics...
Rosenblum says the senior search has currently been abandoned but that the department has commissioned a hiring search for a Middle Eastern specialist at the junior level, and the search is well underway. Five candidates are being considered and the first job talk will take place in the next several weeks...
...adds that it is one of the department’s duties to provide “at least the minimum” of the kinds of courses undergraduates expect in the field of Middle Eastern politics, such as a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Yalman has been teaching at Harvard since 1972 and he says that since then the field of Middle Eastern studies has never gotten a great deal of support. Yet Yalman remains confident in the future of Middle Eastern studies at Harvard, citing the brilliance of the University’s graduate students. “I have never had difficulty in finding superbly prepared teaching fellows for my courses,” he says...
Yalman hopes Middle Eastern studies will eventually follow the format which has worked well for the Far East region. Harvard’s East Asian Studies program, he says, has excellent institutes which focus on each critical country, from Japan to China to Korea. He says a similar form of specialization that is integrated within the various disciplines would work well for the study of the Middle East and also the greater Islamic world...