Leila Fawaz

Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies

Education:

BA and MA, American University of Beirut;
AM and PhD in History, Harvard University.

Professional Activities:

Awarded a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College at Oxford University in the fall of 2006, to work on her new research project on the social history of the Levant in the late Ottoman period. Overseer, Harvard University, 2006-; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Member, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 2005- Member, Comité Scientifique of the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Université de Provence, 2005-; Member, Editorial Board, American Historical Review; European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France, Member, Steering Committee for the Program on Individual and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World, 1994-1999; Member, Planning Committee, 1993, Publications Committee, 1996-1999; Member, Professional Division, American Historical Association; Delegate, American Council of Learned Societies; Past President, Middle East Studies Association of North America; Past President, American University of Beirut Alumni Association of North America; Past Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1989-1994; Visiting Professor, Université de Provence (spring 1994); past recipient of Lillian Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising, Tufts University.

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