the middle east center spring 2012 newsletter - humis.utah.edu ...

awards & recognitions
Beginning/Intermediate Arabic Award: Robin Cox
Advanced Arabic Award: Casey Faust
Undergraduate Persian Language Award: Matt McPhee
Graduate Persian Language Award: Jeremy Prindle
Undergraduate Turkish Language Award: Richard Oliver Brown
Graduate Turkish Language Award: Tal Buenos
Louis and Ethel Zucker Memorial Award for Hebrew Language: Sarah Jane Ward
Marion Farouk-Sluglett Paper Competition Awards:
Jordan E. Toone, J.D., S.J. Quinney Law School,
“Occupation Law During and After Iraq: The Expedience of Conservationism
Evidenced in the IGC Minutes and Resolutions”
Kathryn Hain, PhD, Department of History,
“The Impact of Foreign Concubines on the Medieval Muslim World”
Language Teaching Assistants Awarded for 2012-13:
Arabic: Kellie Stirling and Abdulaziz Altoubi
Persian: Jeremy Prindle
Turkish: Can Ozcan
Undergraduate Departmental Tuition Waiver: Michael Geerlings, B.A., MES-Turkish
Liz Clark has been accepted to participate in the 2012 Critical Languages Program in intenstive Turkish language
through the U.S. State Department. She will spend two months this summer in Izmir, Turkey, taking intensive
Turkish language courses. This fall, she will be on fellowship at Georgetown University’s Masters in Public Policy
Program.
Mehran Mazinani has been awarded a Research Fellowship through the Graduate School for 2012-2013.
Brad Dennis has been awarded a University Teaching Assistantship through the Graduate School for 2012-2013.
He will teach a history course with Professor Peter Von Sivers.
Kellie Stirling was accepted to a State Department program in Alexandria, Egypt, this summer through American
Councils, which funds non-native speakers teaching Arabic or Chinese in high schools or community colleges.
Nicholas Dutkiewicz received a fellowship in the Middle East program at Georgetown University.
Lt. Colonel Ulises Calvo will replace Lt. Colonel Aaron Merrill as Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation at
the American Embassy in Beirut, where he will join Lt. Colonel Don Hall. All three are alumni of the Middle East
Studies graduate program.
Emine Hosoglu Dogan is teaching Turkish language courses as an Instructor at Istanbul Şehir University.
Jillian Grisel has been accepted to American University in Beirut’s Masters in Public Health program, concentrating
in community health and health promotion.
Sheena Mugavin has been accepted into the Ph.D. program for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the
University of Utah. She will be a Teaching Assistant in the program.