Dr. Beatrice St. Laurent

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, Cambridge Ph. D. Islamic Art and Architecture 1989 M. A. Islamic Art and Architecture 1987 Special student, Islamic Art and Architecture 1979-80

University of Massachusetts, Art Department, Amherst. M. A. with distinction, Islamic Art and Architecture 1979 Non-degree coursework 1976-79 . Television production, film theory and criticism, photography, art history B. A. Studio art, concentration in painting & ceramics

EMPLOYMENT

Bridgewater State (College) University Professor of Art History 2013 to present Chair, Department of Art, Associate Professor, Bridgewater State University, 2009-2012 Professor (Art History), Continuing Education, 2008-2012 Associate Professor (Art History), 2008-2012 Assistant Professor (Art History), 2001-2008 Visiting Associate Professor, Continuing Education, 1996-2001

Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts Visiting Professor, Islamic Art, series of 12 lectures on Islamic Art, spring semester 2011

Northeastern University/Roxbury Community College William B. Dubois Program (Clemente Program), 2003-2005

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Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts Visiting Associate Professor, Full-time 1996-2000

Harvard University Extension School Faculty, Art History, 1989-2003 Faculty, Summer School, 1989-1992

Institute of Islamic Archaeology (now at Al-Quds University), Jerusalem Faculty, advising M. A. theses in archaeology, 1993-1994

Wellesley College, Art Department Assistant Professor, (Art History), 1989-92

Harvard University Instructor, full-time, 1988-1989 Teaching Fellow, 1981-1982, 1983-87 Fine Arts Library, catalogued Turkish Architecture slide collection

Research Assistant Research conducted for Dr. Elizabeth Holt Documentary History of Art

University of Massachusetts, Amherst Teaching Fellow, University Without Walls, 1978-79 Lecturer, 1978 Teaching Fellow, 1977-1979

Junior & Senior High School Teaching Granby, Massachusetts-Junior/Senior high School art teacher, 3 years Peabody High School- French teacher, 1 year

STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS

Bridgewater State (College) University Travel to Turkey with ATP Undergraduate Research student, Istanbul, Ephesus, Didyma, Miletus, summer 2006

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Bridgewater in Lucca, Faculty, July 2004.

Study tour to Morocco, Faculty, spring Break March 6-21, 2004

Study tour to Spain and Morocco, Faculty, spring break March 2-March 16, 2003

Study tour to Turkey, faculty, Bridgewater State College, 28 May-14 June 2001

Other

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lecturer for a tour of museum patrons to Syria, Jordan and Israel San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Spring 1996.

Wellesley College Alumnae trip to Turkey, Lecturer 11-26 September 1992. Harvard University Alumni Tour “From Athens to Senegal, ”Lecturer, November 1989

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Temple Mount Sifting Project: summer archaeological project to examine, identify, quantify and categorize Ottoman tile fragments and write a chapter for publication from the ‘Temple Mount Sifting Project’ working with and for Dr. Gabriel Barkay of Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan and Zachi Dvira, project supervisor; in Jerusalem June 6-July 6, 2012. Funding was received to prepare a publication from Dr. Barkay.

Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), United Kingdom Jerusalem Project affiliation 2009 to 2013.

American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). American Schools of Oriental Research, Manuscript Reviewer for ASOR Annual, 2011

University of Massachusetts, Amherst Keynote Speaker for the Mark Roskill Graduate Student Symposium, ‘The Lives of Objects’ October 15, 2010

Jordan National Museum Consultant with Director, Curator & Conservationist—projects with Islamic Museum/Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem, 2008- 2010

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, outside critic for MFA final exhibition 2009 American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan, NEH (National Endowment of the Humanities) Senior Fellow, summer 2009 Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), Senior Fellow, 2008

Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE),

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Fulbright Graduate Student Grants’ Reviewer for Middle East & North Africa, 2004-5, 2007 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Reviewer for grants in Art History and Archaeology, July- August: Meeting in Washington on August 12, 2002.

United States Information Agency Fellow, American Center for Oriental Research; Amman, Jordan, 1994-1995 Fellow, William Foxwell Albright Institute, Jerusalem, 1993-1994

Van Berchem Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland Fellow, research in Jerusalem, 1993-1994

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, William Foxwell Albright Institute, Jerusalem, 1992-93

Tangier American Legation Museum, Tangier, Morocco Conservator of Collection, 1991

Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique (CNRS): Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris Part of a research team of historians and social scientists examining Turkey, Paris 1990-94

National Defense Education Act Program (NDEA) Fulbright Hayes Fellow, Ph. D. Doctoral dissertation research in Turkey and France, 1982-1983

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES Search Committee for the Manager of Collections position 2012 Middle East Committee/Center: Steering Committee 2006-2013 Landscape and Beautification Committee 2009-11 Art Committee 2009-12 Sculpture Committee for selection of artist for campus portraits 2010-11 CART Board 2006-2010 International Programs Committee 2004/2005, 2005/2006 Academic policies Committee 2005/2006 Asian Studies Committee 2001-2005 Maxwell Library Public Relations Committee, Fall 2005 Ad Hoc Committee for development of Middle East minor/major 2005 Academic Policies Committee 2004/2005 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2002/2003 GER Committee Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2001/1002 Programs and policies Sub-committee Asian Studies Committee 2001-2005

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Art Department Committees Art History Committee 2011-14 Graduate Committee 2006-2014 Ex Officio member of all departmental committees 2009-12 Departmental Scheduling Committee 2006-2009, 2012-13 Honors Chair for the Department: also participating in an Honors workshop on October 6, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Curriculum Committee member 2004]-2008; Chair 2002/2003 NASAD Accreditation Committee 2002/2003

Department Search Committees Graphic Design position 2014 Art Historian position in Art Department 2012-13 Administrative Assistant for Art Department 2011 Graphic Design position 2006/2007 Photography position search in Art Department 2002/2003

PUBLICATIONS/MANUSCRIPTS

2001-2015

Books in progress

Capitalizing Jerusalem: Mu’awiya’s Urban Vision 638-680

Qubbat as-Sakhra (The Dome of the Rock): an account of the building and its condition with recommendations for its conservation, submitted to the Supreme Moslem Council by A. H. S. Peter Megaw, Director of Antiquities of Cyprus; sometime Director of the British School of Archaeology in Athens 1946/1952 Monograph with essay by Beatrice St. Laurent, (to be submitted to publishers for review December, 2013)

The Dome of the Rock & al-Aqsa Mosque: 20th & 21st Century Restorations with Isam Awwad (Resident Architect Haram al-Sharif 1972-2004).

Articles in Various stages of completion “Bayt al Maqdis: The First Mosque of Jerusalem and the Gate to the Precinct,” with Isam Awwad (Chief Architect and Conservator of the Haram al-Sharif 1972-2004) for ICHAJ 12, International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, due to press February 2014 and forthcoming at next meeting in 2016.

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“The Ottoman Tiles from the Haram al-Sharif,” in Gabriel Barkay The Temple Mount Sifting Project, in process awaiting data to be analyzed and to be sent from Dr. Barkay & Zachi Dvira (Project Manager) [research completed summer 2012 and article to be written in the spring 2013] {see Professional Experience section of CV}.

Articles completed and published

-Avni, Gideon. 2014. Review of The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach, by Beatrice St. Laurent. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 2 (4): November 2014.

“An Alternative Narrative: From the Müze-i Humayun to the Palestine Museum of Antiquities 1890- 1930” with Himmet Taşkömür (Harvard University) in Jerusalem Quarterly: Institute of Palestine Studies 55 (Fall 2013), 6-45.

“The Marwani Musalla in Jerusalem: New Findings” and Isam Awwad, in Jerusalem Quarterly: Institute of Palestine Studies 54 (Summer 2013), pp. 7-30.

“From Bursa to Jerusalem: from Yeşil Türbe to the Dome of the Rock” in History from Below: A Tribute a Tribute in Memory of Donald Quataert, eds. Selim Karahasanoğlu and Deniz Cenk Demir (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2014).

“Obituary: Oleg Grabar 1929-2011,” Albright News vol. 16, 2012, p. 18. [My doctoral thesis advisor at Harvard University)

“The Qashani or Tiles of the Dome of the Rock: The Preservation of the Cultural Heritage in Jerusalem,” in ACOR Newsletter, Vol. 21.1, Summer 2009, pp. 1-3.

“Kaplony, A.-The Haram of Jerusalem 324-1099. Temple, Friday mosque, area of spiritual power, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2002 (29 cm. XVIII, 789). ISBN 3-515-07901-7; book review in Bibliotheca Orientalis (Nederlands Instuut voor het Nabtje Oosten), Volume LXVI, No. 1 / 2, January-April 2009, pp. 261-263.

“The Dome of the Rock & the Haram al-Sharif: Restoration, Archaeology, Religion & Politics in Jerusalem,” in Salim Elwazani, Shatha Malthis, Jamal al-Qawasmi eds., Responsibilities and Opportunities in Architectural Conservation: Theory Education and Practice, (Amman: CSAAR Press, 2008), vol. 2, pp.175-92

“Bursa'da Modernleşme ve Osmanlılaşmanın Kaynakları” [The Sources of Modernisation and Ottomanisation in Bursa], Translation by Seçkin Engin,in Bursa'da Yaşam [Life in Bursa] (a journal published in Bursa for 7 years), pp. 8-20, May 2005. [Summary of my Doctoral thesis published in Turkish]

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Series of articles on the Islamic Art and Architecture of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt for a high school text on Islam in preparation for The Brown Reference Group in London 2005.

‘The Ottoman and Turkish Restorations of the Dome of the Rock and Their Political Significance 1517-1964.” Published in the papers of the conference 7 CENTURIES OF OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE ‘A SUPRA-NATIONAL HERITAGE [OSMANLI MİMARLĞININ 7 YÜZYILI ‘ULUSLARÜSTÜ BIR MİRAS’ULUSLARASI KONGRE], 25-27 November 1999, held in Istanbul (Istanbul, 2001)

1990-2000 “The Dome of the Rock. Restorations and Significance 1540-1918”, Ottoman Jerusalem eds. S. Auld and R. Hillenbrand published on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and the Administration of the Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Jerusalem (Edinburgh: Altajir World of Islam Festival Trust, 2000) pp. 415-24.

“The Dome of the Rock and the Politics of Restoration, Bridgewater Review, Vol. 17 no. 2, (December 1998)

“19th and Early 20th Century Architecture,” with Branwen Denton, Madaba:Cultural Heritage, eds. Patricia Bikai and Thomas Dailey, (Amman: American Center of Oriental Research, 46-89.

”The Dome of the Rock-Restorations and Political Significance,” in 9 Milletlerarasi Turk Sanatlari Kongresi, Volume III (Ankara 1995), pp. 257-70

“Bir Tiyatro Aşığı: Ahmed Vefik Paşa ve XIX, Yüzyıl Sonlarında Bursa’nın Yeniden Biçımlendirilişi,” Bir Masaldı Bursa, ed., Engin Yenal, (İstanbul: Yapı ve Kredi Yayınları, 1996), 105-117 [Based on a chapter of my doctoral thesis published in Turkish].

“Bir Tiyatro Amatörü: Ahmed Vefık Paşa ve 19.Yuzyılın son Çeyreğınde Bursa’nın Yenıden Bıçınlenmesi” in Paul Dumont & Françoıs Georgeon Eds. Modernleşme Sürecınde Osmanlı Kentleri (Istanbul, 1996), pp. 79-98.

“Tiles” for Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology, Eds. Eric Meyers, Carol Meyers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)

“Albright Field Trip to Turkey,” Albright Newsletter, spring 1993, (with Robert Haak), pp. 5-6

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“The Dome of the Rock. Restorations and Political Significance 1560-1928,” in Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar Contributed by His Students, (Muqarnas vol. 10), ed. Oleg Grabar, (Leiden: Brill, 1993), pp. 76-84.

“Un Amateur de théatre: Ahmed Vefik Pasha et le remodelage de Bursa dans le dernier tiers du XIXe siècle,” in Villes ottomanes à la fin de l’Empire, (Paris: l’Harmattan, 1992), 95-113 [based on a chapter of my doctoral thesis published in French].

“Tangier in Travelers’ Images: Orientalist Myth or Reality,” in Tanger 1800-1956. Contribution récente du Maroc, (Rabat, 1991), 169-79

Robert Hamilton Review of Walid and his Friends. An Umayyad Tragedy, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art VI (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988) in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies: Medieval Academy of America, (October, 1991), pp. 884-86

“Ottoman Power and Westernization: The Architecture and Urban Development of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Bursa,” Anatolia Moderna V Yeni Anadolu, [Bibliothèque de l’Institut Français d’EtudesAnatoliennes d’Istanbul], (Paris: Adrien Maisonneuve, 1991) [Chapter of my doctoral thesis].

“Le Complexe du Tekke Bektaşi de Merdivenköy,” co-authored with Paul Dumont, in Anadolu Moderna II Yeni Anadolu. Derviches et Cimitières ottomans, (Paris: Adrien Maisonneuve, 1991), pp. 75-88.

1980-1989 “The Identification of a Magnificent Koran Manuscript,” in Les manuscrits du moyen orient. Essai de codicologie et de paléographie . Actes du colloque d’Istanbul (26-28 mai 1986), ed. François Deroche, (Paris and Istanbul: Bibliothèque Nationale and Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes, 1989).

Ottomanization and Modernization: The Architecture and Urban Development of Bursa and the Genesis of Tradition 1839-1914, Ph. D. dissertation, Harvard University, June 1989.

“Léon Parvillée. His role as Restorer of Bursa’s Monuments after the 1855 Earthquake and his Contribution to the Exposition Universelle of 1867,” in L’Empire ottoman; la République de Turquie et de la France, C. N. R. S. [Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique] publication, (Istanbul, 1986).

Three book reviews Turcica. Revue d’Etudes turques, 17 (1985) 1. Tarih Incelemeri Dergisi 1 [Journal of Historical Studies], (Izmir, 1983). 2.Cengiz Orhonlu, Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Şehircilik ve Ulaşım [City Planning and Communication in the Ottoman Empire], (Izmir, 1984). 3.Renata Holod and Ahmet Evin, Modern Turkish Architecture, (Phila., 1984).

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‘Kemalettin’ and ‘Mehmet Tahir Aga,’ in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, (New York, 1981).

‘Minaret’, in Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, (Nashville, 1981). ‘The Heavenly Garden: the Garden in Islamic Religious Tradition”, in Walter Denny, The Garden in the Arts of Islam, (South Hadley, 1980).

CONFERENCE SESSIONS AND PAPERS

2001-2016 “Capitalizing Jerusalem & Beyond: Mu’awiya’s Urban and Imperial Vision 638-680,” ICAANE 10 25-29 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.

“Capitalizing Jerusalem: Mu’awiya’s Urban Vision 638-680,” ASOR American Schools of Oriental Research) Annual Meeting, 18-22 November 2015, Atlanta.

“The Museum of Antiquities in Jerusalem 1890-1935: An Alternate Narrative,” ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research) Annual Meeting, 19-22 November, San Diego.

“Archaeology & Preservation of Early Islamic Jerusalem: Revealing the 7th Century Mosque of Jerusalem.” ICAANE 9 (International Congress on the Archeology of the Ancient Near East), Basel, Switzerland, June 9-13, 2014.

“Jerusalem’s Mosque & the Entrance to Bayt al-Maqdis in the 7th century” with Isam Awwad, (ASOR) American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 20-23, 2013.

“The First Mosque of Jerusalem & the Golden Gate-the Eastern Entrance to the Haram al-Sharif,” ICHAJ 12 (International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan) Transparent Borders, [Under the Patronage of H. R. H Prince Al-Hassan Bin Talal] Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 5-11 May 2013.

ENDEAVORS, ENCOUNTERS & CHALLENGES: research JERUSALEM, session organizer for (ASOR) American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2012. Session presenter, “Cultural Heritage at Risk in an Un-unified Jerusalem: The Dome of the Rock & the Haram al-Sharif,” ENDEAVORS, ENCOUNTERS & CHALLENGES: research JERUSALEM, American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 13-18, 2012.

Historians of Islamic Art Association: Third Biennial Symposium “Looking Widely, Looking Closely,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10-20 October 2012. Attendee

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“Democratization in the Middle East and the Arab Spring—An American Perspective,” with Dr. Joshua Muravchik, (Johns Hopkins University, and Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute), Roundtable Meeting PASSIA [Palestine Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs), Jerusalem, 27 June 2012.

“Conference: The Legacy of Kamal Salibi,” The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University, 20 April 2012. Attendee

“Ornament as Portable Culture: Between Globalism and Localism,” Department of the History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, [held at the Graduate School of Design], 12-14 April 2012. Attendee.

American Schools of Oriental Research, Annual Meeting, November 2011, San Francisco; attended sessions and met with colleagues who will participate in my session for the next annual meeting in Chicago in November 2012 [see above]. Met with prospective participants from abroad and US who will present in me session at ASOR Annual Meeting in Chicago in November 2012

IDEA Center Workshop for Department Chairs, Austin Texas, 2-5 November 2011.

“From Kutahya to Jerusalem: The Tiles of the Dome of the Rock & the Dome of the Chain,” International Conference in Honour of John Carswell & Jerry Murphy O’Connor on Armenian Culture and Art History (10th-20th century), organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Library of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem (funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon), Gulbenkian Library Jerusalem, July 11-13, 2011. An International Conference Celebrating the First 2000 years of Christian Heritage in the Holy Land, Jerusalem & Bethlehem, July 6-8, 2011. Attendee.

Workshop on the Restoration of the Church of the Nativity, Peace Center, Bethlehem, West Bank, July 2, 2011. Invited to participate in a workshop sponsored by the Palestinian Presidential National Committee and the Ministry of Culture. I was invited to attend and participate in discussion on the proposed restoration put forward by an Italian team funded by the PA Ministry of Culture.

“The Dome of the Rock & Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem: Politics & Conservation” ICHAJ 11 (International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan)—‘Changes and Challenges”, Paris [INHA-Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art] 7-14 June 2010,

“The Qashani or tiles of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: History & Preservation,” International Conference of Jerusalem, Royal Cultural Center, Amman, Jordan 4-8 October 2009, at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture of Jordan.

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The Dome of the Rock & the Haram al-Sharif: Restoration, Archaeology, Religion & Politics in Jerusalem,” CSAAR (Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region) Annual Meeting; Petra University, Amman, Jordan, 3-7 September 2008.

College Art Association, Annual Meeting, New York City, 2007

Conference on “Ottoman Historiography,” American Academy of Sciences, Cambridge, May 2006

College Art Association, Annual Meeting, February 2006. Attended the Islamic Session & spent a day in the book “fair” talking to publishers and examining newly available publications for the teaching of art history. Democratizing the Middle East, January 26-27 2006 Tufts University, Fletcher School & Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies—closed conference

“The Ottoman Restorations of the Dome of the Rock” International Congress Bilad Al- Sham during the Ottoman Era, by invitation from the Ministry of Culture of Syria and IRCICA (The Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture) in Istanbul, in Damascus, Syria, 25-30 September 2005.

Through the Lens of a Photographer, Tangier, Tetouan and Northern Morocco,” World History Association Conference, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, June 26-29, 2005

“The Painter’s Work: Paintings, Poems, and Songs from France” with Prof. Leslie Goldberg in Music Department, CART Celebration, May 2005.

1990-2000 “The Ottoman and Turkish Restorations of the Dome of the Rock and Their Political Significance 1517-1964,” Presented a paper at conference: 7 CENTURIES OF OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE ‘A SUPRA-NATIONAL HERITAGE [OSMANLI MİMARLĞININ 7 YÜZYILI ‘ULUSLARÜSTÜ BIR MİRAS’ULUSLARASI KONGRE], 25-27 November 1999, held in Istanbul, Turkey.

“Bursa. From Model City to Modern City,” Keynote address presented at conference BURSA AND ITS REGION ON THE 700TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OTTOMAN STATE [OSMANLI DEVELTİNİNKURULUŞUNUN 700 YILDÖNÜMÜNDE BURSA VE YÖRESİ], 6-9 May 1999, in Bursa, Turkey.

“Jerusalem: Urban Development and Expansion during the late Ottoman period” for a panel SYRIAN CITIES DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD: NEW APPROACHES, Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, November 1997, San Francisco.

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Organizer of ongoing session on Islamic Art and Archaeology: Chair of the session THE TRANSITION FROM THE BYZANTINE TO THE ISLAMIC PERIOD for the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, November 1997, Napa.Organizer of ASOR session ISLAMIC JERUSALEM, and presented paper “The Qubbat al-Silsilah”, November 1996, New Orleans.

Co-chaired and presenter: IMAGE AND IDENTITY IN BILAD-I SHAM. Paper “Dome of the Rock: Politics and Restoration,” Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, December 1995, Washington

Chair, organizer and presenter: ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY FOR ASOR Annual Meeting, “Late Ottoman Pasha Residences and Farmsteads in Jordan,” November 1995, Philadelphia

Co-chair of Symposium and presenter: ARCHITECTURE AND IDENTITY IN BILAD AL-SHAM FROM THE 16TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY, The Dome of the Rock and the Politics of Restoration, Darat al-Funun, Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, 1 June 1995, Amman Jordan

Organizer and Chair, NEW DIRECTIONS IN ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY, special session for the ASOR Annual Meeting, November 1994, Chicago

“Housing and Community Development through Land Reclamation: a proposal for planning and building new communities in East Jerusalem”, PASSIA Roundatable, participant, Jerusalem, 19 May 1994

“The Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem. Restoration and Politics 1720 to the Present, ASOR OVERSEAS; PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH IN LIGHT OF THE PEACE PROCESS. ASOR Annual Meeting, November 1993, Washington

“The Dome of the Rock and Contemporary Politics in the Middle East.” Convocation at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 14-16 November 1993.

“The Dome of the Rock: Restorations and Political Significance 1517-1993.” YAWM AL QUDS [DAY OF JERUSALEM] SYMPOSIUM, October 1993, Amman, Jordan. “The Dome of the Rock: Restorations and Political Significance.” Palestine Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA), 12 November 1992, Jerusalem

“The Dome of the Rock: Current Research.” Istanbul Technical University, 20 October 1992. Istanbul, Turkey.

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“Politics and Cultural Institutions. The Creation of the Palestine Museum of Antiquities 1890-1901,” Sixth International Conference of Social and Economic History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, July 1-4, 1992, Aix-en-Provence

“The Dome of the Rock. Restorations and Political Significance 1560-1907,” 9th International Congress of Turkish Art, 23-27 September 1991, Istanbul, Turkey

“Ottoman Architectural Theory and Historicism: The Genesis of Tradition 1860-1914,” College Art Association, Annual Meeting, 21-23 February 1990, Washington

“Architecture, Preservation and Urbanism in the Levant 1839-1908.” NAHIA [North American Historians of Islamic Art), February 1991, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington.

“Tangier in Images of Nineteenth Century Travelers.” First Tangier Colloquium: TANGIER THROUGH ITS RECENT HISTORY (1800-1956), 18-20 October 1990, Tangier, Morocco.

“Unity and Diversity during the Reign of Abdülhamid II. Urbanism and Architecture in the Provinces.” PASSIA, 12 August 1990, Jerusalem.

“Urbanism and Architecture of the Period of Abdülhamid II in the Provinces of the Empire.” 9th Symposium of the Comité Internationale des Etudes Préottomanes et Ottomanes (CIEPO), sponsored by the Israel Academy of Sciences, 23-26 July 1990, Jerusalem.

“Architecture de la capitale et dans les provinces arabes de ‘Empire ottoman à l’époque d’Abdülhamid II.” Université de Strasbourg. 8 January 1990, Strasbourg, France.

‘Un amateur de théâtre : Ahmed Vefik Pasha et le remodelage de Bursa dans le dernier tiers du XIXe siècle.” Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre d’Etudes sur l’U. R.S. S., l’Europe orientale et le domaine turc, 4 January 1990. Paris.

1980-1989 “The Urban Transformation of Bursa 1838-1908. Social Implications.” THE IMPACT OF1808: ANATOLIA AND EGYPY COMPARED, Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, SUNY, Binghamton, 7-8 October 1988.

“Ahmet Vefik Pasha and the Governors of Bursa: Transition to Modernity,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Colloquium, 9-11 April, 1988, Boston.

“Léon Parvillée: French Architect in the Service of the Sultan.” Symposium on the History of Art, Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts, 10-11 April 1987, New York.

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“Ottoman Power, Architecture and Westernization in Bursa 1839-1914.” College Art Association, Annual Meeting, 12-14 February 1986, Boston

“The Official Ottoman Style in Nineteenth Century Provincial Architecture. The Military Schools,” 7th Symposium of the International Committee of Preottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIEPO), 7-11 September 1986, Pécs, Hungary.

“The Tekke at Merdivenköy.” Colloquium on L’ORDRE DES BEKTACHIS, sponsored by the University of Strasbourg, l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and the CNRS, 29 June –2 July 1986.

“The Identification of a Magnificent Koran Manuscript.” JOURNEES DE CODICOLOGIE ET PALEOGRAPHIE sponsored by the Bibliothèque Nationale and the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, 26-28 May 1986.

“The Vernacular Architecture of Ottoman Anatolia, Rümeli and the Balkans.” Presented at the opening of an exhibition co-sponsored by Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul and the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, 2 April 1985, Istanbul.

“Le pouvoir ottoman face aux problèmes d’urbanisme. Le cas de Bursa à la fin du XIXe au début du XXe siècle.” Conference of the CNRS on LES JEUNES TURQUES, 21 January 1985.

“Bursa in the Nineteenth Century: the Urban Transformation of an Ottoman Capital.” Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting November 1984.

“Some Sources for Sixteenth Century Islamic Painting in the ‘Fatih’ Albums in Istanbul.” College Art Association, January 1979.

“On Tracking Down a Dispersed Persian Manuscript.” Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2 December 1978, Boston.

GRANTS & OTHER FUNDING William F Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professorship, February-June n2016. Bridgewater State University, partial Funding Academic Affairs, conference in Berlin Germany Bridgewater State University, Travel Grant. Fall 2012 Temple Mount Sifting Project-funding to sort & publish the Ottoman tiles June/July 2012 Bridgewater State University, Travel Grant, Fall 2011 Bridgewater State University, FLRG 2011 Bridgewater State College FLRG 2010 Bridgewater State College Travel Grant 2010 Bridgewater State College Summer Grant 2009

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Bridgewater State College Travel Grant 2009 American Center of Oriental Research (ASOR) Senior NEH Fellow, 2009 American Center of Oriental Research Senior CAORC Fellow Fall 2008 Bridgewater State College FLRG Spring 2008 Bridgewater State College Travel Grant 2007 Marian and Jasper Whiting Foundation travel grant 2006-7 Bridgewater State College Summer Grant 2007 Faculty /Librarian Grant for course development “Art, Architecture and Culture of Islamic Spain,” 2006 Bridgewater State College CART FLRG 2005/2006 Bridgewater State College CART Travel Grant to Ifrane, Morocco June 2005 AIMS American Institute of Maghreb Studies Grant to Morocco Summer 2004 Bridgewater State College CART Summer Grant to Morocco 2004 Bridgewater State College CART Travel Grant to London March 2004 USAID United States Information Agency Grant, Jordan at ACOR, 1994-5 USAID United States Information Agency Grant, Albright Institute, Jerusalem, 1993-94 Van Berchem Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland Grant, Jerusalem, 1993-94 Dorot Foundation Grant, excavation at Philistine site of Tell Miqne/ Ekron, Israel National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Albright Institute, Jerusalem, 1992-93 Wellesley College Faculty Research Grant, 1991-Turkey Institute of Turkish Studies Research Grant, 1990 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant to Israel, 1990 Wellesley College Faculty Research Grant, 1990Wellesley College Dissertation Completion Grant 1989 Institute of Turkish Studies Grant, 1986-87 for Dissertation completion in Turkey Aga Khan Grant, Harvard University, 1986 Aga Khan Grant, Harvard University, 1985 Harvard Fine Arts Department Grant, to Turkey, 1984 Fulbright Hays Training Grant, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, for France and Turkey, 1981-82 Aga Khan Summer Travel Grant, Harvard University/ MIT, travel to Turkey 1981 Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant, for the study of Classical Arabic, 1981-82 Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant, for the study of Classical Arabic, 1980-81

LANGUAGES French (bilingual—first language French) Turkish (spoken and written) Arabic (spoken and written) Ottoman Turkish (reading) German (reading) Spanish (reading) Italian (reading) Latin (reading)

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LECTURES {external to Bridgewater State University} --“Cultural Heritage at Risk in Jerusalem: The Dome of the Rock & the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem,” Brown University, Department of Judaic Studies, April 12, 2012. --“The Dome of the Rock & the Haram al-Sharif: Cultural Heritage at Risk-Restoration, Archaeology, Politics & Religion in Jerusalem in the 20th & 21st Century,” CBRL (Center for British Research in the Levant) Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem, 18 May 2010. --“The Dome of the Rock: Cultural Heritage at Risk in an Un-unified Jerusalem,” Public Lecture, Bridgewater State College, March or April 2010 --“The Dome of the Rock: Restorations, Religion and Politics in Jerusalem,” Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA), Jerusalem, 13 August 2009. --ACOR (American Center of Oriental Research), Panel of ACOR Fellows, update of my research on the “The 20th Century Restorations of the Dome of the Rock & Role of Coordinator of Projects with the Jordan Museum, 14 July, 2009. --ACOR (American Center of Oriental Research) Public Lecture: “The Dome of the Rock & the Haram al-Sharif: Restoration, Archaeology, Religion & Politics in Jerusalem,” January 14, 2009, Amman, Jordan. --“Restorations of the Dome of the Rock in the 20th and 21st Century,” William Foxwell Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, 27 May 2008. -- Lecture on the Mosque, its origins and contemporary political implications; for Islamic Week at Roxbury Community College, May 2005 --“The Dome of the Rock. Restoration and Politics,” Friends of Archaeology, Amman, Jordan, 1 November 1995. --Lecture tours of the Dome of Rock and its precinct, Hebron and Gaza for groups from UNWRA, Albright field trips, for the Middle East Council of Churches, for US for groups from the U. S. consulate in Jerusalem. “--The Dome of the Rock. Restoration and Significance 1720-1995.” Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestinian Entity. 16 May 1995. --“The Dome of the Rock. Restorations and Politics.” Jordan University for Science and Technology, Irbid Jordan. 3 May 1995. --“The Dome of the Rock. Restoration and Politics 1720-1995.” Institut Français d’Etudes Arabes de Damas, Damascus, Syria. 20 April 1995. “The Dome of the Rock: Restoration and Politics,” Embassy of the United States. Amman Jordan, April 1995. --“The Dome of the Rock: Restoration and Politics,” Grunebaum Center, University of California, Los Angeles. 17 January 1995. --“The Dome of the Rock. Restoration and the Current Political Situation in the Middle East,” Center for Middle East Studies and Aga Khan Program. Harvard University. 13 January 1995. --“The Dome of the Rock and Contemporary Politics. Art History Department University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 14 December 1994

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--“The Dome of the Rock: Restoration and Politics,” Miller Commonwealth Lecture, School of Architecture, University of Illinois. 12 November 1994. --Lecturer. Wellesley College Alumnae Symposium: “The Many Faces of Islam.” May 31- June 4, 1992. --“The Political Significance of the Dome of the Rock 691-1991.” Wellesley College. November 1991. --“Are All Orientalists Alike? Travelers Images of Morocco.” Center for Middle East Studies: Morocco Forum, Harvard University, 1 October 1990. --“Ottoman Architecture. From the Fifteenth Through the Nineteenth Century,” Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University. 1 August 1987. --Public lecture: Islamic Gallery, Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art, Harvard University. 7 December 1986. --“Ottoman Power Confronted with Urban Problems: The Case of Bursa at the End of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century,” Istanbul Technical University, Architecture and Urban Planning Faculty. Istanbul, Turkey. April 1985.

LECTURES (Bridgewater State University) --“Cultural Heritage at Risk in Jerusalem: The Tiles of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem,” CART Celebration, May 10, 2012. --“Cultural Heritage at Risk in Jerusalem: The Dome of the Rock & the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem,” CART Colloquium, April 12, 2012. --“The Dome of the Rock: Cultural Heritage at Risk in an Un-unified Jerusalem,” 30 March 2010, sponsored by the Middle East Committee. --“The Dome of the Rock and the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount: Restoration, Archaeology, Religion & Politics in Jerusalem,” CART Colloquium, 14 November 2007 -- “The Dome of the Rock and the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount: Restoration, Archaeology, Religion & Politics in Jerusalem,” CART Colloquium November 14, 2007 --“External –External Funding: When is the Time Right?” CART Celebration XI Panel, May 17, 2007 --“Through the Lens of a Photographer” CART lecture in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, February 17, 2006.-- Is there a middle ground in the Middle East? Panel discussion organized by Asian Studies. I assisted in the organization of this event and introduced the panelists. March 29, 2005 --“The Painter’s Work; Paintings, Poems and Songs from France” with Louise Goldberg from the Music Department, CART Celebration IX May 2005. -- Renaissance Roundtable. Mapping the Renaissance “Piri Reis and Turkish Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century, 2004” Primavera! The Renaissance Garden “Islamic Gardens: from Spain to India 14th-17th Centuries” April 24, 2003 “Italian Painters in the 15th Century Ottoman Court of Sultan Mehmet II” --Sponsored and brought journalist Rami Khouri to speak on campus. Rami Khouri, was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University; he is an independent journalist contributing to the Jordanian and foreign press, is a member of the Brookings Institute,

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EXHIBITIONS -- Guest Curator: “Late Soviet Era Prints from the Collection of Larry Doherty,” Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State University, 27 September-22 October 2010.

-- Guest Curator: “Russian Photography from the Collection of Lawrence Doherty, ”Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, opens February 19, 2010.

--“Through the Lens of a Photographer,” Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, Spring 2006.

--Curator: “Neon Goddess,” Danielle Gilardi (my former student at Harvard University), Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, Fall 2004

--“God, State and Beast.” With Mary Dondero. An exhibition of photographs at the Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, October 1998

--“Everyday Life in Morocco in the Nineteenth Century.” An Exhibition of historic photographs of Morocco, organized by Beatrice St. Laurent and Wilfrid Rollman using new negatives made by Beatrice. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University,

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October 1989; Hilles Library, Harvard University, November-December; Marlborough College, Brattleboro, Vermont, February-March 1990: Jewett Art Center, Wellesley College, 8May-11 June 1990. “Türk Evi Saygı” (Hommage à la Maison Turque) co-sponsored by Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, and the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, spring 1985 and traveling through Turkey afterward; twelve of my black and white photographs of vernacular architecture of northern Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey. Teaching exhibits at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University: “Modern Painting and Prints, 1945-present,” “Picasso,” “Manuscripts: Western and Middle Eastern.”

TRAVEL -Berlin, Germany for a conference, May 2013 -Jerusalem, June 6-July 6, 2012 -Jerusalem, Jericho, Bethlehem & the following archaeological sites in Israel: Tell Safi, Iron Age site in Akko, Tell Qabri near the Lebanese border on the coast, & Caesarea—13 May-15 July, 2011 -Jerusalem, Ramallah, archaeological sites of Tell Dan & Hazor in northern Galilee, Amman (Jordan), Paris—May 16- August 1, 2010. -Amman & Jerusalem May 3-August 31, 2009. -Jordan: Amman, sites of Roman Decapolis city of Jerash, Nabatean Petra, Ayyubid/Mamluk Ajloun, Shoback Crusader Castle, Hellenistic Pella, Roman & Ottoman Umm Qais (Gadara), Byzantine & Ottoman Madaba, Umayyad Mshatta, Qasr Kharanneh, Azraq Castle & nearby nature Preserve, Mount Nebo of Moses fame & nearby Byzantine sites between Nebo and Madaba; Jerusalem & Ramallah; Lebanon including Beirut (with a visit to American University Beirut AUB and the Beqaa Valley sites of Anjar and Baalbek; Trablus or Tripoli in the north & Byblos; Syria: Damascus; Turkey: Istanbul & Bursa; England: Oxford for a week of research at the Khalili Research Centre at Oxford University in October 2008—September 20, 2008 through January, 2009 (sabbatical semester). -Jerusalem, Amman, Jordan and Istanbul and Bursa Turkey summer 2007 -Turkey, summer of 2006 -Tangier, Morocco June-August 2004, research for Study Tour for Spring 2006. -Portugal and Spain July 2004, Preparation for Spring Break Study Tour in 2005. -Morocco. May 2003 -Syria, Jordan and Israel, 1996 -Syria, 1995 -Jordan, London 1994/95 -Jerusalem, Israel, Jordan, Athens, Crete, Turkey, Egypt 1992-93 -Israel and Morocco, Italy. 1990 -Greece, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Canary Islands, The Gambia, Senegal. 1989. -Morocco and Spain. 1989. -Luxembourg, Hungary, Austria and Germany. 1986 -Turkey and France, 1985 and 1986.

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-Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Italy, England. 1982-1983 -Turkey, summer 1981

EXCAVATION EXPERIENCE -Temple Mount Sifting Project, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel- Summer 2009: July Summer 2012: June -Tel Miqne/Ekron, Israel, excavation of Dr. Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin, in the field for 2 seasons, 1993-4. -Madaba, Jordan, project examining late Ottoman buildings of Madaba. 1994.

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