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JOBS
Jen Corley (Religious Studies ‘15) began working for WeTravel, a travel management startup, which focuses on travel-related experiences that involve academics, philanthropy, spirituality, adventure, and cultural exchange.
Sadaf Jaffer (Post-doctoral Fellow in Literary Cultures of Muslim South Asia) will start a Post-doctoral Fellowship in South Asian Studies at Princeton University.
Allison Mickel (Anthropology/ Archaeology) will start as a Lecturer in Stanford’s Program on Writing & Rhetoric.
Oludamini Ogunnaike (Postdoctoral Fellow on Islam in Africa) will start as an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at College of William & Mary.
Uğur Zekeriya Peçe (History) will start as Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Bard College
Will Sherman (Religious Studies) will be an ACLS/Mellon Fellowship next year and start as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in 2017.
FELLOWSHIPS
Kristen Alff (History), Fırat Bozçalı (Anthropology), and Eda Pepi (Anthropology) have received a 2016-17 Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities.
Parwana Fayyaz (Religious Studies) will start a 3-year fellowship at the University for Cambridge for her Ph.D. on medieval Persian poetry.
Alexander Key (Comparative Literature) will be one of the Internal Faculty Fellows at Stanford Humanities Center.
Orit Mohamed (Program Coordinator) will be a Public Service Fellow at the City of San Francisco.
AWARDS
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (History) received one of the 2016 Centennial Teaching Assistant Awards granted by Stanford Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning.
INTERNSHIPS
Tae Shin Lee (Philosophy), Nicole Wong (International Relations / Art & Art History), Haroon Zaidi (Chemical Engineering) will attend the Vienna International Christian-Islamic Summer University.
Davianna Marolyn Olert (Economics / Earth Systems) will work on an energy project with Prof. Şuhnaz Yılmaz (Koc University) as a Global Studies Intern.
PUBLICATIONS
Amanda Ussak (International Policy Studies) published a paper on the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar in the Stanford International Policy Review.