Liz Crocker promoted to Director of AGU Thriving Earth Exchange
Liz Crocker was promoted to Director of AGU Thriving Earth Exchange, a community science initiative of AGU that has been connecting communities with scientists to do community-led science. Here is a short video about one of their 360+ projects.
Feyza Burak-Aadli presents at Northwestern University
Feyza Burak-Aadli presented “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey” at Northwestern University in March hosted by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA).
Mehrdad Babadi accepts tenure track position
Mehrdad Babadi currently a Post-Doctoral fellow at Brown University, has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor at Colby College beginning July of 2026.
Amy Scott presents at the AABA meeting
Amy Scott, current post-doc and BU alum, presented a poster at the AABA meeting in Baltimore on “Historic urine samples as a source of host genomic DNA from wild primates” that showed how she has been able to extract DNA from decades old orangutan urine samples.
Xuyi Zhao has successfully defended her dissertation
Dr. Xuyi Zhao has successfully defended her dissertation, Living in the Future City: Time, Politics and Urban Imaginations in Chengdu’s New City Center.
Salwa Tareen has successfully defended her dissertation
Dr. Salwa Tareen has successfully defended her dissertation, Of the City and the Soul: Urban Disaster and an Islamic Ethics of Care in Karachi.
Hannah Grace Howard has successfully defended her dissertation
Hannah Grace Howard has successfully defended her dissertation, Liturgical Care: Theological and Political Belonging in Athenian Greek Orthodox Charity.
Laura Brubaker-Wittman has successfully defended her dissertation
Dr. Laura Brubaker-Wittman has successfully defended her dissertation, A Mixed Methods Study of the Habituation Process in Wild Bornean Orangutans.
AN Alum Annika Aneko Schmeding Won the Norchi Afghanistan Prize
AN Alum, Annika Aneko Schmeding has won the Norchi Afghanistan Prize for her book Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan (2024 Stanford University Press).
READ: New Publications from BU Alum Feyza Burak-Adli
Read new publications from BU Alum Feyza Burak-Aldi (PhD 2019)! Burak-Adli, Feyza. 2024. “The Portrait of an Alla Franca Ottoman Sheikh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 56 (2): 207–226. doi:10.1017/S0020743824000631 (OPEN ACCESS) Abstract: Illustrating the complicated lifeworlds of late Ottoman and early Republican elites, this paper examines the life, career, and Islamic thought […]