Faculty Position

Professor and Founding Director of Human Rights Studies
College of Letters and Science

Research

• Human Rights Studies
• Humanitarianism
• Refugee Studies
• Higher Education in Emergencies

Selected Books and Publications

• Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism (University of California Press, 2015)
• We Will Stop Here and Go No Further: Syrian University Students and Scholars in Turkey (2014)
• “Syria’s Lost Generation” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3, 2013

Selected Fellowships and Research Awards

• Ford Foundation Core Grant
• Visiting Fellow, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy, American University of Beirut
• Distinguished Visitor, American Academy in Berlin
• Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
• Senior Fellow in International Peace, United States Institute of Peace
• Fulbright Scholar, Syria

Education

• B.A. with Honors, History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Washington
• M.A. and Ph.D. Modern Middle East History, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)