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Sean Foley Curriculum Vitae MTSU Box 23, Murfreesboro, TN, 37132 USA, [email protected], 1-(615)-904-8294, www.seanfoley.org EDUCATION Ph.D., History, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (2005) Washington, DC Major: Middle East Minors: US Diplomatic History and Political Economy GPA: 3.96 M.A., Arab Studies, with distinction, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (2000) Washington, DC Major: History GPA: 4.0 B.A., with honors and distinction, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (1996) Berkeley, CA Major: History GPA: 3.73 RESEARCH INTERESTS I specialize in Middle East history and the political and religious trends in the broader Islamic world. I also specialize in Islam in Southeast Asia and the linkages between Asia and the Middle East. PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY Murfreesboro, TN USA Associate Professor, History (Tenured) July 2011-Present Assistant Professor, History (Tenure-Track) August 2006-July 2011 Member, Graduate Faculty Courses Taught: Graduate and Upper Division Middle East and Islamic History, Graduate Courses in Middle East Historiography, Introduction to Middle East Studies, the Arab-Israeli Dispute, and World History. KING SAUD UNIVERSITY Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Visiting Associate Professor January 2013-January 2014 I researched a book on Saudi Arabia’s modern history and society entitled What’s Past is Prologue: How Dialogue, Obligations and Reciprocity Frame Saudi Arabia’s Success in the Contemporary World. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION (ISTAC) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Visiting Fulbright Research Fellow September 2010-December 2011 My Fulbright project focused on Islamic Modernism and the influence of a leading scholar, Shaykh Tahir Jalaluddin on Southeast Asian Islam from 1869 to 1958. I also gave over 25 lectures throughout Asia. DEPAUW UNIVERSITY Greencastle, IN USA Assistant Professor, History (One Year, Term) August 2005-June 2006 Sean Foley C.V., Page 2 PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE (continued) Courses Taught: Modern Middle East History, the Arab-Israeli Dispute, Islam and Global Terrorism, the History of Iraq, and Gender and Identity in the Middle East. GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Washington, DC USA Royden B. Davis Teaching Fellowship January 2005-June 2005 Course Taught: History of African Jihads in the Old and New Worlds. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Books The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 2010). What’s Past is Prologue: How Dialogue, Obligations and Reciprocity Frame Saudi Arabia’s Success in the Contemporary World, In Preparation. Journal Articles “Enlightened Selfishness Mixed with Generous Idealism: The United States, Human Rights and the Creation of the United Nations,” Special Issue: The Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, In Press. “When a Colonial American Minister Put His Faith in the Power of Islam: Muslim Medicine, Reason, and Public Health in the Modern World,” Journal of History Studies 6, no. 3 (April 2014): 147-161. “When Collision Emerges As Unexpected Harmony: Saudi Responses to the Arab Spring,” Contemporary Review of Middle East 1, no. 1 (March 2014): 53-74. “When Life Imitates Art: The Arab Spring, the Middle East, and the Modern World,” ed. Philipp O. Amour, Special Issue, Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 12, no. 3, (Fall 2013): 32- 46. “Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, and Modern Islam,” Islam and Civilisational Renewal (Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Volume 4, No. 1, January 2013: 45-61. “Re-Orientalizing the Gulf: The GCC and Southeast Asia,” Middle East Policy, Volume 19, No. 4, Winter 2012: 77-87. “Los Estados del Golfo y la Primavera árabe de 2011” (“The Arab Gulf States and the 2011 Arab Spring”), Foro Internacional: The Journal of the Center for International Studies 208 (El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico), Volume 52, No 2, April 2012 – June 2012: 488-509. “When Spirit and Intellect Know No Gender Boundaries: Women and the rise of the Naqshbandiyya- Khalidiyya in the Ottoman Empire during the Nineteenth Century,” Prajna Vihara: Journal of Philosophy and Religion (Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand), Volume 12, No.1, January 2011– June 2011: 16-28. Sean Foley C.V., Page 3 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS (continued) “Turkey and the Gulf States in the Twenty-First Century,” Middle Eastern Review of International Affairs, Volume 14, No. 3, September 2010: 29-37. “All I want is equality with girls: Gender and Social Change in the Twenty-First Century Gulf,” Middle Eastern Review of International Affairs, Volume 14, No 1, March 2010: 21-37. “Muslims and Social Change in the Atlantic Basin,” The Journal of World History, Volume 30, No. 3, September 2009: 377-397. “The Iraq Status-of-Forces Agreement, Iran, and Guantanamo Bay,” Rutgers Law Record, Volume 34, No. 1, Spring 2009: 39-45. “The Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya, Islamic Sainthood, and Religion in Modern Times,” The Journal of World History, Volume 19, No. 4, December 2008: 521-545. “Temporal and Spiritual Power in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Politics: Shaykh Khalid, Gürcü Necib Pasha, and the Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya,” Türkiyat Araştırmaları (Turkish Studies), Volume 9, Fall 2008: 227-244. “It Would Surely Be the Second: Lebanon, Israel and the Arab-Israeli War of 1967,” Middle Eastern Review of International Affairs, Volume 9, No. 2, June 2005: 45-56. “The Gulf Arabs and the New Iraq: The Most to Gain and the Most to Lose,” Middle Eastern Review of International Affairs, Volume 7, No. 2, June 2003: 24-47. “Research Guide: United Arab Emirates,” Middle Eastern Review of International Affairs News, Volume 3, No. 11, September 1999: 1-10. “The UAE: Political Issues and Security Dilemmas,” Middle Eastern Review of International Affairs, Volume 3, No. 1, March 1999: 25-45. “Enlightened Selfishness Mixed with Generous Idealism: The United States, Human Rights and the Creation of the United Nations,” The Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, Volume 9, No. 2, Spring 1996: 113-144. “History, Oil and Ethnicity: The Story of Abu Musa and the Tunbs Islands,” Politica, Volume 2, No. 2, Spring 1996: 68-81. Chapters “When the Qur’an was America’s Weapon for Freedom in the Middle East: Muhammad Siblini and the Defeat of the Axis in North Africa,” in Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa (Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut Press, 2014): 281-293. “Hagiography, Government Records, and Early Modern Sufi Brotherhoods: Shaykh Khālid and Social Movement Theory,” in Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, edited by John Curry and Erik Ohlander (New York: Routledge Press, 2012): 50-67. Sean Foley C.V., Page 4 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS (continued) “Airlift for Allah: The United States and the 1952 Hajj,” in Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East, edited by Robert Myers (Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut Press, 2011): 387- 394. “Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE,” in Guide to Islamist Movements, edited by Barry Rubin (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2010): 305-318. “What Wealth Can’t Buy: UAE Security Policy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century,” in Crises in the Contemporary Persian Gulf, edited by Barry Rubin (London: Frank Cass, 2002): 33-74. Occasional Papers “The Arab Awakening and the New Disorders of Hope,” Middle East Institute New Delhi Occasional Paper, No. 27, October 3, 2011. “The Paradox of American Power: US Foreign Policy in the Middle East and the 2011 Arab Awakening,” IKON (Institute of Oriental Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) (Malaysia) Occasional Paper Series, 1/2011, June 2011. “Down in the Depths on the Ninetieth Floor: The Gulf Arab States in the Modern Era,” Middle East Institute New Delhi Occasional Paper, No. 25, January 10, 2011. Policy Papers “Malaysians Vote—The Middle East Watches,” Middle East Institute (Washington, DC) Policy Brief, May 2013. “The Artist of the Revolution: Hamza Namira, the Arab Spring, and the Dream of a Free Egypt,” Middle East Institute (Washington, DC) Policy Brief, April 2012. “Maher Zain, Technological Change, and Southeast Asia’s Role in the Modernization of the Muslim world,” Focus On Essay: Oxford University Press Islamic Studies Online, January 2012. With Mustafa Gokcek, and Zafer Parlak “I am From Adana, Welcome to Beirut: How Identity, Soap Operas, and Trade are Transforming Turkey and the Arab World,” The Middle East Institute (Washington, DC) Viewpoints Series, September 2010. “Non-Oil Industries in the Persian Gulf,” The Middle East Institute (Washington, DC) Viewpoints Series, June 2009. Encyclopedia Entries “Islamic Modernism in Southeast Asia,” Oxford University Press Islamic Studies Online: Regional Update, April 2012. “The Influence of the Russian Revolution on National Liberation Movements,” in The Russian Revolution, edited by Paul du Quenoy (Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2005): 72-78. Sean Foley C.V., Page 5 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS (continued) “The Influence of Russian Terrorists on the Strategy and Tactics of Modern Terrorist Groups,” in The Russian Revolution, edited by Paul du Quenoy (Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2005): 57-65. “Russian Diplomatic Goals in World War One,” in The Russian Revolution, edited by Paul du Quenoy (Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2005): 21-27. “The Suez Canal Crisis and The Superpowers,” in Twentieth Century European Social and Political Movements, edited by Paul du Quenoy (Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2004): 235-239. “The Paradoxes of European Decolonization,” in Twentieth Century European Social and Political Movements, edited by Paul du Quenoy (Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2004): 79-89. “Foreign Markets, Trade Routes, Raw Material and Overseas Expansion,” in Twentieth Century European Social and Political Movements, edited by Paul du Quenoy (Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2004): 64-69. Eleven Entries in The Oxford University Press’ Dictionary of Islam, edited by John Esposito (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). “United Arab Emirates,” in Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, edited by Sarah Pendergast and Tom Pendergast (Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2002): 637-646. Book Reviews “Review of Robert D. Lee’s Religion and Politics in the Middle East: Identity, Ideology,” in Review of Middle East Studies, 44, No. 1, Summer 2010: 99-100.