Pardee School Students, Faculty to Present at MESA Conference
Several students and faculty members from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies will present at the upcoming Middle East Studies Association Conference being held in Boston from November 17-21, 2016.
Middle East and North Africa Studies and International Relations major Alyssa Scheiner and International Relations and Economics major Adam Syed are among just 17 undergraduates nationwide invited to present their research at the conference.
Scheiner and Syed will participate in a workshop that is meant to hone their research skills by focusing on placing their work in academic literature, developing research methods, and exposing students to data, archives, and other primary sources in Middle East studies. Following the workshop, the students will present their research in a public poster session.
Scheiner will be presenting on “The Consequences of Demographic Aid Distribution: The Case of Syrian Refugees,” while Syed will be presenting on “Understanding Social Media as a Text: A Case Study in Amman, Jordan.”
Several Pardee School faculty members will also be presenting at the conference including Director of Middle East and North Africa Studies Margaret Litvin, Assistant Professor of International Relations Noora Lori, Professor of International Relations and Anthropology Augustus Richard Norton, Senior Lecturer Wilfrid J. Rollman and Lecturer Jeffrey Karam.