Provost Research Fellowship Award Recipients
Fall 2009 Recipients
Jane Bristol-Rhys - "Future Perfect: Societies in the Emirates"
The confluence of oil wealth, a small and uneducated population, proximity to the large populations of South Asia and other Arab countries, and ambitious development goals in the UAE has resulted in several rigidly maintained social hierarchies. This research project focuses on several layers of UAE society: Egyptian, Jordanian, American, Sri Lankan, Australian, Indian and Emirati and explores the boundaries that separate them and the particular focus on a better, perfect future that unites them. This research will be an analysis of the ethnically, nationally and economically separated societies that characterize the UAE with a particular focus on the boundaries that divide them and the commonly shared focus on the future that unite them.
Rafael Reyes-Ruiz - "Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society"
Zayed University is delighted to announce the launch of a new journal. Encounters: an International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society will promote and publish scholarship from the humanities and the social sciences, and their intersections on topics related to the encounters of cultures, intellectual traditions, and social and political systems across space and time. The journal seeks a critical understanding of the transcultural and transnational factors that shape such encounters --and by extension, the world as we know it. The editors encourage contributions that explicitly link the humanities and the social sciences and engage their different methodologies. Regular special volumes will offer stimulating, focused engagement with specific historical, political, cultural, social or theoretical questions.
Federico Velez - "Global Empires and Regional Powers: The Middle East and the emergence of the United Arab Emirates"
These Fellowships have been created to help achieve and advance the research mission of the University. This research support initiative will provide a full or partial teaching reassignment for the fall semester to faculty members with established research or scholarly/creative project agendas.
Congratulations to these three outstanding recipients!
Spring 2009 Recipients
Dr. Caroline Haddad "A national study on the health of the UAE population: Geographical differences in exposures and outcomes." This research is supported by the Ministry of Education, builds on a very creditable research record of Dr. Haddad, and directly supports UAE strategic goals to understand and improve the health of the UAE population.
Dr. Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein: "Civilizing Yunnan: Islam on the margins of the Chinese Empire". Dr. Armijo-Hussein is developing this research in the important topic of the literature of Islam, and is making a valuable contribution to this field by working with a variety of primary resource materials not hitherto documented or analyzed.
Dr. Drew Gardner: "Handbook and atlas of the reptiles and amphibians of the United Arab Emirates and Oman." Dr. Gardner is a world authority on desert fauna, and is now working to publish a book on this topic which will document and preserve part of the vital UAE ecosystem for future generations.
Provost Dan Johnson, Dr. Drew Gardner, Vice President Dr. Sulaiman Al Jassim, Dr. Caroline Haddad, and Dr. Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein
View the Press release [Arabic], Al Khaleej, 24 February 2009
