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Right now, Caton says, there are a lot of gaps to fill. He says some fields, most notably sociology and economics, aren’t very compatible with Middle Eastern studies since their approaches are rooted in western models...
...Yalman, professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Anthropology, says that professors in “pseudo-scientific” fields such as political science and economics, prefer not to address Middle Eastern issues—a fact that makes it difficult to generate serious academic interest in the area...
According to Caton, the biggest gap in Middle Eastern studies, and the one that has incited the most consternation among undergraduates, is the lack of a political scientist in the government department. It has been over a decade since a tenured faculty member has held a position in the department and a year since the junior faculty slot was left vacant...
While declining to comment on whose program is better, Emily Gottreich, vice chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, points out that Berkeley has a tenured political scientist, Kiren Chaudhry, who like Gottreich herself was trained at Harvard...
Rosenblum rejects the charge that the government department was unprepared for the growing interest in the Middle East. She says the lack of a Middle Eastern political scientist is due to the “constant reshuffling” of faculty in all areas of comparative politics and is not the result of a long-term oversight...