Curriculum Vitae Enaya Othman Assistant Professor of Arabic Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 Email: enaya.othman@marquette.edu Phone: 414-288-5761 Education 2003-2009 Ph.D. 1996-1998 Master of Arts 1984-1988 Bachelor of Arts Department of History, Major Field: Modern American History Minor Fields: Middle East and Islamic History Dissertation: Middle Ground in the Middle East: American Quakers and Palestinian Women at the Friends Girls School in Ramallah, 1889-1948 Department of History University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Major Field: American Immigration and Ethnic History Minor Field: Middle East History and Islamic History Master Thesis: "Arab-Americans in Milwaukee: History and Assimilation" BirZeit University, Palestine Major: World History, Islam, and Modern Middle East History Minor: Political Science Employment: 2014-present Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Director of Arab and Muslim Women Research and Resource Institute s Oral History Project 2010-2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2 2010-present Director of Arab and Muslim Women Research and Resource Institute s Oral History Project 2009-2010 Adjunct, Arabic Language, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures 2008-2009 Teaching Fellow, American History, Department of History 2007-2008 Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Middle East and North African History, Department of History 2004-2006 Teaching Assistant,, American and Middle East History, Department of History 1988-1990 Teacher, Technical College in Palestine English as a second language, Anash-al-`Asra Fellowships, Awards, and Grants: 2013-2015 Co-recipient of GO Project: Arabic Language and Culture (Defense Language and National Security Education Office) 2013-2014 Co-Recipient of the Wisconsin Humanities Council major Grant Award- Milwaukee Public Museum exhibit: Beyond the Veil: Dress, Identity and Tradition through the Eyes of the Muslim Women 2013-2014 NEH Grant: Library Bridging Cultures: Muslim Journeys Bookshelf Collection. Alverno College. (a grant partner secured the grant for Alverno College Library) 2012-2013 Muslim Women immigrants in Greater Milwaukee Area Melon Grant Award, 2012-1013 Recipient of the Wisconsin Humanities Council major Grant Award- Cultural Dress and Identity Narrative among Arab and 2010-2013 Co-recipient of the UISFL (Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages) Grant, US Department of Education, with Terrence Miller, Phillip Naylor, Irfan Omar, John Pustejovsky, and Richard Taylor
3 2011-2012 Awarded Certificate of Recognition for Fostering Diversity Within Marquette Community,, Division of Student Affair 2010-2011 Recipient of the Wisconsin Humanities Council mini-grant award- Arab and Muslim Women Oral History Project 2008-2009 Arthur J. Schmitt Fellowship, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences RCM Travel Fund Award 2008-2009 Graduate School Travel Fund Award PUBLICATIONS: A. Book Project: Dogma of Womanhood and feminism among American Missionaries and Palestinian Between 1880s and 1940s expands the historical scope of the dissertation by examines Palestinian female students writings including their newsletter and a collection of essays that were in the 1920s and 1930s in both English and Arabic languages. My plan is to get the book ready for publication by 2016. B. Articles (in Refereed Journals): Building a community Among Early Arab Immigrants in Milwaukee, 1890s -1960s, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Summer, 2013, Vol., 96, No. 4, pp. 38-49. Meeting at Middle Ground: American Quaker Women s Two Palestinian Encounters Jerusalem Quarterly, Summer 2012, Issue 50, pp.47-65 C. Research in Progress: Article:. Article: Strategies of Recognition and Palestinian Immigrant Women s Cultural Dress: Forging Communities and Negotiating Power Relations is under review at Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies Cloths an Expression of Cultural and Religious Identity among Muslim Immigrants Women. To be submitted to Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
4 Papers Presented and Participation in Professional Meetings: A. International Conferences: 2014 Palestinian immigrant Women and Cultural Dress: Cultural Markers of Identification and Belonging presenter, Travelling Between the Center and Periphery: Creating a Feminist Dialogue for the Diaspora, University of Warwick, UK. August, 2014. B. National Conferences: 2010 Forging a Middle Ground: American Quaker Women at the Friends Girls School in Ramallah, Palestine, between 1880s and 1940s, presenter, Midwest World History Association, October, 2010 2008 Dogma of Womanhood: Quaker Missionary Women in Ramallah, Palestine, 1886-1914, presenter, Middle East Studies Association, November 2008 2004 "The Concept of Nationalism in Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Strategy or Objective? presenter, African Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2004 C. Local Conferences/Panel Discussion/invited Talks 2013 Give introduction of Dr. Jawid Mojaddedi and Amir Vahab in an event titled: Song of the Reed: Rumi with Dr. Jawid Mojaddedi and a performance by Amir Vahab at the Milwaukee Central Library, Fall 2013 2013 Cultural Dress and Identity Narrative among Arab and Muslim Women Immigrants in Greater Milwaukee Area presenter, Marquette University, Engaging Islam and Muslim Conference: Multidisciplinary Perspective, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Studies Conference, Spring 2013 2013 Palestinian Women and Cultural Dress: Cultural Markers of Identification and Belonging, presenter, Conversations Across Humanities Conference,, Spring 2013 2010 The importance of Documenting the History of Arab and Muslim Women, Alverno University-roundtable discussion- the Grand Opening Celebration of the Alverno College Women and Girls Research Center, Spring 2010
5 2009 Arab-American Career Professionals, panelist, Power lunch Series,, Fall 2009 2009 Muslim Women in the workplace, Arab Heritage Month, panelist,, Spring 2009 2009 Arab American antiquate Intercultural program, speaker,, Spring 2009 2007 "Palestine and Israel: Perspective on the Region," presenter, Alverno College, Milwaukee, Spring 2007 2007 Study of Race and Ethnic Literature Guest Lecturer, Department of English,, spring 2007 2007 Guest Lecturer,, Department of Theology The Early History of Islam/ Women in Islam, Summer 2007 2007 Guest Lecturer, Alverno College, Student Workshop Overview of Islam/ Palestinian Women Movement, summer 2007 2006 Guest Lecture,, Department of History American Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Spring 2006 2005 "Tribute to Edward Said," presenter, Arab Heritage Month, Marquette University, Spring 2005 2004 "Muslim Brotherhood between Modernism and Fundamentalism," Presenter, African Research and Scholarship Day, Fall 2004 2004 "International Perspective of Studying U.S. History Abroad," Round Table Panel, Graduate Student Organization, Fall 2004 Teaching Experience: Arabic 1001 Arabic 1002 Elementary Arabic 1: Introduction to fundamentals of Modern Standard Arabic (and shami @ Masri Dialects), 2 sections, Elementary Arabic 1001: Introduction to spoken and written Modern Standard Arabic, 2 sections,
6 Arabic 2001 Arabic 2002 Arabic 3001 Arabic 2930 Arabic 3210 History 4995 History 006 History 309 History 282 History 383 English 101 Intermediate Arabic 1, Continuation of the study of Modern Standard Arabic, 2 sections, Intermediate Arabic 2, Continuation of Arabic 2001, 1 section, Advanced Arabic composition and grammar, 1 section, Marquette University Formal spoken Arabic, 1 section, Arabic Literature in English translation: Readings of Selected Literary works of Arabic literature, 1 section, Marquette University History Seminar: Arab and Muslim Women in America, 1 section, Introduction to American History, 1 section, The United States in the 20 th Century, 1 section, Alverno College The Modern Middle East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee North Africa North Africa from the Arab Conquest to the Present, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee English as a Second Language, In`ash Al-`usra, Technical College, Palestine. Internships: Writing Internship in English Grant Writing (UWM student), Fall 2012 Arabic Translation Internship Project, (UWM student), Fall 2013 Professional activities 2013-2014 Organizer, Academic, and Field Director of Project Go Study Abroad Program in Jordan for Summer 2013, Summer 2014 2009- present President of Arab and Muslim Women Research and Resource Institute, AMWRRI, Board of Directors
7 2009- present Directs the AMWRRI Oral History Project 2009- present Editor/ Writer, Al-`Authr, The Trace, AMWRRI s Newsletter 2010-2013 Oral History workshops, Methods and Techniques Documenting Arab and Muslim Women Narratives, Organizer and Trainer, Islamic Society of Milwaukee, ISM & 2012-2013 Served as advisor for Milwaukee Central Public Library on planning the Bridging Cultures: Poetic Voices of the Muslim World programs for presentation in the fall of 2013. Fall-2009 Designed AP history syllabus for Salam High School and received acceptance for the AP college Board 2008-Fall Interviewer at the Fulbright Committee Scholarship Award, 2003-2004 Research Assistant, Children in Urban American Project Muslim scholars in North African History Arabic translations- Dr. Philip Naylor 1985-1987 Research Assistant, BirZeit University Muslim Scholars Languages Arabic- native, English-near native. Professional Developments Fall- 2013 Fall-2011 Fall-2010 Trainee of ACTFL 3 Days OPI Training workshop, Texas Trainee of ACTFL 1 Day OPI Training Workshop, Trainee of ACTFL 5 Days OPI Arabic Training Workshop, Boston
8 Professional Organization American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, ACTFL Arab and Muslim Women Research and Resource Institute Phi Alpha Theta, International History Honorary Society Middle Eastern Studies Association American Historical Association Urban History Association African Studies Association Member, Milwaukee Historical Society Institute of World Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee