Sarah
Shields is one of our non-Western historians in the History Department
at UNC-CH. She gets to teach the entire field of Islamic Civilization
(from before Islam to tomorrow), and a variety of courses on the history
of the Middle East. By training she is an Ottomanist, specializing
in the Arab provinces of the great empire. Her book on Ottoman Iraq,
Mosul before Iraq, will be published this year by the State
University of New York Press. Her next project moves forward
in time to study the development of national identities in the interwar
Middle East.
Sarah
has been on the PHE Steering Committee for four years. This year
she is standing in for Lloyd Kramer, who is in Montpellier with the UNC
Study Abroad Program. Her interest in history teaching dates
back to High School, where she developed her own curriculum to avoid the
one the school offered. She has served on the History Department’s
Committee on Teaching for five years, and this spring will try her hand
at a graduate course helping teachers-to-be navigate new techniques and
technologies. She is a frequent public speaker on topics related
to the Muslim World and the Middle East, and loves consulting with secondary
school teachers and talking with secondary school classes. You can
see her website, which includes information on her courses, at the following
URL: http://www.unc.edu/~sshields/
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