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Dr. Pamela Dorn Sezgin UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA (U.S.A.)

Oconee Campus / P.O. Box 1748 / Watkinsville, GA 30677 Tel. (706) 310-6229 / E-mail: Pam.Sezgin@ung.edu

EDUCATION SACS Certification 2003 Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA Post-Doctoral Studies World History (completed 20 graduate semester hours); Certificate 1993 Georgia Archives Institute, Atlanta, GA Archival Management Ph.D. 1991 Indiana University Graduate School, Bloomington, IN M.A. 1981 Social Anthropology / Turkish Studies / Folklore

Scholar 1981 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Turkish Classical Music

B.A. 1977 Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA Urban Anthropology / Ancient Greek and Roman Studies

A.A. 1975 Clayton State College, Morrow, GA

Journalism / Music / French

NOTE: DIPLOMAS RECEIVED AS PAMELA J. DORN

HONORS American-Turkish Friendship Council (AFTC) Board of Trustees, 2013 - present Board of Advisors, International Journal for Heritage and Sustainable Development, Green Lines Institute, Portugal, 2010- Present Scientific Committees for the following Portuguese conferences: Heritage 2013, 2012, 2010; Eco Museum, 2014, 2012; and Sharing Cultures 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 Innovative Teaching Grant, Gainesville College, 2010, 2008, 2005 Governor’s Teaching Fellows, University of Georgia, Workshop Leader 2009,2008; Fellow, 2006 Outstanding Faculty Finalist, Oconee Campus, Gainesville State College, 2008, 2007, 2006 Invited Panelist, Ottoman History Seminar, Folger Library, Washington, D.C., 2007 Steering Committee, Middle East Council, University System of Georgia, 2005 Ella Rose Society Award for Exceptional Women of the Oconee Campus, 2005

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Curator’s Committee Award, Southeastern Museums Conference, 1999 Award for Excellence, Fulton County Public Schools Foundation, 1997 Outstanding Young Women of America, 1989 Indiana University, Graduate School Award for Outstanding Research, 1984 Fellow at the Jerusalem Center, 1983 FULBRIGHT FELLOWSHIP, 1980-1982 Cum Laude Graduate, Georgia State University, 1977 Honors Program Thesis, Georgia State University, 1977 Honors Graduate, Clayton State College, 1975 Lambda Alpha [Anthropology] Honors Society Scholarship, 1977 Phi Theta Kappa National Honors Society Delta Kappa Gamma Society International (Educational Honors Society) 2012-Present

Academic Work Experience 2014-Present Professor of Anthropology, History and Museum Studies (Tenured) University of North Georgia (consolidated university)

Chair of the Oconee Subcommittee, Leadership and Appointments Committee Served on HAP Departmental Tenure and Promotion Guidelines Committee, And Pre-Tenure Review Committee Member of the Strategic Planning Committee (university-wide)

Developed 8 new anthropology courses and anthropology minor proposal Advise 45 education and anthropology majors Serve on the Selection Committee for Awarding Innovative Teaching Grants and on the Library Committee Serve as a judge for the North Georgia Social Science Fair (since 2004) Teach HIST 1111, 1112, 2112; ANTH 1102 (HYBRID), 2010, 2020 and new 3000 and 4000 level courses beginning in 2014: ANTH 3101 (Museum Studies); ANTH 3103 (Anthropology of Food); ANTH 3400 (Anthropology of the Middle East); ANTH 4803 (Anthropology of Things); ANTH 4860 (Anthropology of Religion) 2009-2013 Associate Professor of Anthropology and History (Tenure Awarded) Gainesville State College (Georgia) Developed new courses for CRM (Cultural Resources Management)

Proposal for a Certificate in Museum Studies Chair of the Oconee Social Sciences Social Committee Active in developing structures for the new School of Social Sciences and Departmental structures in the transition from a two-year college to a four-year institution; nominated for department chairperson (Anthropology and History); Served on the search committee for the Dean, School of Social Sciences.

2004-2008 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and History

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Gainesville State College, Oconee Campus (Watkinsville, Georgia) Teach the following courses:

Anthropology 1102 (Introduction to Anthropology Survey) Anthropology 2010 (Biological Anthropology) Anthropology 2020 (Cultural Anthropology) History 1111 and 1112 (World History Survey) History 2111 and 2112 (U. S. History) Hybrid Anthropology 1102 (Online + On-Site Course) INED 2903 (Interdisciplinary Study Abroad in Greece) Service: Advise 105 Education and Anthropology Majors on Oconee Campus Assist with SOAR and Registration Each Semester, including Second Summer Expanded Anthropology Program (2005) and Developed CRM Certificate (2011) Served on Academic Special Programs Committee and Learning Communities Committee (2007) Served on the Library PAC Committee (2005) Chaired History Search Committee (January – May, 2006) Chaired Anthropology Search Committee (January – May 2008) Served on History Search Committees (2005, 2007, 2008) Served on Sociology Search Committee (2005) Serve on Public Relations Committee, Social Sciences Division (2004-Present) Served on Women’s History Month Committee, Oconee Campus (2004, 2005) Taught Center for Teaching and Learning Seminars on “Shared Class Files,” “Learning Community,” “Millennials,” “Managing Classroom Problems,” “Testing and Grading Techniques,” “Enculturating the Oconee Student”

and “Using Assessments to Improve Attendance” (2004-2007) Participated in the Faculty Mentoring Program (2004-2006) Wrote and Administered Georgia Humanities Council Grant for “Understanding Islam: A One-Day Conference” (April, 2007) Judge for Social Science Post Competitions, Science and Social Fairs

(2004-2011)

1999-2004 Adjunct Faculty, and Temporary Fulltime Professor (January – May, 2004) Division of Social Sciences, Gainesville College, Gainesville, Georgia Taught three sections of Anthropology 1102 per term World History 1111 and 1112 Coordinator for Chicopee Oral History Project (2002-2003)

Volunteer for Science Fair (2003-2004) Writing Across Curriculum Group (2002)

Speaker for Middle Eastern community seminars (2001 - 2003)

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2003 Part-time Professor, History Department Reinhardt College, Alpharetta, Georgia Campus Taught World Geography 2002, 2003 Assistant Professor of Anthropology Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Taught two sections of Anthropology 101 (Cultural Anthropology) And Anthropology 202 (Human Origins) 2001-2003 Part-time Professor, Department of Anthropology and Geography Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia Taught one to two sections of Anthropology 1102 and 2020 Research Associate in the Center for Applied Studies 1998 Instructor for Teacher In-Service Program (Part-time) Collaboration between the Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, And the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, Jackson, MS Developed and taught course on Mississippi’s Ethnic Heritage 1992-1997 Instructor for Teacher In-Service / Staff Development Program (Part-time) Fulton County Public Schools, Atlanta, Georgia Developed and taught the following courses: Atlanta’s Ethnic Pluralism Ethnobotany and Teaching History and Science Across the Curriculum Bill of Rights Seminar The Civil Rights Movement in Art, Literature and Music Southern Folklore and Folklife Historic Preservation / Local History Seminars I, II, and III 1990-1992 Research Associate The Southern Regional Council, Atlanta, Georgia

Grant awarded by the Ford Foundation to look at economic opportunity, participatory democracy and poverty issues in the Southeastern United States. Investigated the impact of 1981 Supreme Court Rulings on minority contracting with local governments and democratic participation in the REA electric cooperatives.

1989-1990 Independent Consultant and Freelance Writer Conducted workshops and seminars on multiculturalism for business people. 1985-1989 Coordinator

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International Intercultural Studies Program, Atlanta, Georgia University System of Georgia Board of Regents Developed and marketed 21 student programs and 10 faculty seminars for 34 Georgia public universities and colleges. Conducted cross-cultural training and international orientation seminars. 1983-1985 Instructor and Visiting Lecturer Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Taught the following classes:

American Culture, Customs, and Educational System (U.S. Fulbright Orientation) Israeli History and Society (Department of Near Eastern Studies) Biological Anthropology (Department of Anthropology) Cultural Anthropology (Department of Anthropology) Jewish Music (School of Music) 1983 Instructor Tikhon Makif High School, Yehud, Israel Taught English as a Second Language 1980-1982 Conducted Field Research in Turkey and Israel for Dissertation 1978-1980 Served as a Teaching Assistant in the Departments of Anthropology, Jewish

Studies and Near Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington

Public History / Museum Work Experience 1997-2004 Consultant in Private Practice.

Institutional clients included Kaplan College, New York; Smith Plantation Home, Roswell, Georgia; Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia; and the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia. Work activities include designing interpretive plans, fund-raising, board and staff training, archival design, historic preservation administration, program evaluation, museum governance oversight, analysis of operating budgets, and strategic planning.

1999-2000 Executive Director Georgia Mountains History Museum, Gainesville, Georgia

Managed three-site facility; ran 4.1 million dollar capital campaign; secured funding for educational programs and exhibits. Secured $35,000 contract for

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services with Riverside Military Academy for preservation of their archival materials, design and installation of exhibits. Redesigned educational programming, new exhibits, and secured a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. Conducted Oral History Workshops at Brenau College, North Georgia College, and the Crawford Long Museum in Jefferson.

1997-1998 Project Director for “Alsace to America” (19th century immigration exhibit)

Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, Jackson, Mississippi Chief Curator and Manager for a three-site, “blockbuster” exhibit having

a $750,000.00 budget. Conducted field research and coordinated oral history project and artifact identification. Designed and supervised installation of exhibit. Managed 11 full-time staff members, 200 volunteers, and 50 contract employees. Coordinated historical research and wrote and edited a film and labels for the exhibit. Supervised volunteer training on nineteenth century history of Alsatian Jewish immigrants in the Deep South. Responsible for environmental, security, and managerial aspects of the exhibit attended by 55,000 people in three months.

1992-1997 Executive Director The Teaching Museum South of the Fulton County Schools, Atlanta, Georgia

Managed staff and a 45,000 square foot facility in a 1929 Historic School with 7.5 acres of gardens, having a $300,000.00 annual budget and raised $250,000.00 for building improvements. Coordinated an architectural survey and historic preservation research. Developed collection management policy and procedures. Created programming and exhibits on Georgia history and international cultures. Served 35,000 school children per year. Raised half of annual budget from grants and donations. Built partnerships with other museums, colleges, and community groups. Ran summer and after school programs. Conducted teacher in-service classes. Wrote curriculum materials.

LANGUAGES English, Spanish, Turkish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Greek, Portuguese Judeo-Spanish, Ottoman Turkish INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013 Research in Istanbul, Turkey, on 19th century Greek history of Kadıköy (a neighborhood in Asia); ethnographic research on the anthropology of public space during the Gezi

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Park protests; archival research at the Ottoman Bank Museum; invited speaker at the Tbilisi Technical University, Republic of Georgia. 2012 Research in Trieste, Italy, on 19th century transnational Italian Jewish cultural networks. 2011 Research in museums and archives in Athens, Greece, Corfu, and Istanbul, Turkey.

2010 Spent June in Paris, France, and in Alsace (Strasbourg) doing research on Alsatian Jewish folk art and identity.

2010- Present Member, Board of Directors, International Journal for Heritage and Sustainable Development, Green Lines Institute, Porto, Portugal. 2009 Member, Scientific Committee for Heritage 2010, an International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Sponsored by the Green Lines Institute, Évora, Portugal.

2008 Member, Scientific Committee for the Sharing Cultures 2009, an International

Conference on Intangible Heritage, Sponsored by the Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal.

2008 Developed and implemented curriculum for a Study Abroad Program to Greece, and Accompanied 27 students and two other professors on an intensive 15-day program. 2008 Spent a month doing on-site research for a book about Istanbul, Turkey, in that city. 2001 Invited Consultant for the VLATADON INITIATIVE, part of the European Union’s

Stabilization Pact in the Balkans, via the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, Topic: “Changing the Educational Culture of the Balkans.” Sofia, Bulgaria.

1992 Official Speaker for the Quincentennial Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey. 1987 Evaluator for the USG Studies Abroad Program in Puebla, Mexico. 1985-89 State Coordinator for the International Intercultural Studies Program, Board of

Regents, University System of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia. 1980-1983 Conducted original field and archival research in Turkey and Israel. 1975 Program Participant in USG Studies Abroad Program in Italy and Greece.

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COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE American-Turkish Friendship Council (ATFC) Member of the Board of Trustees with other community leaders like Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca Cola (Spring 2013 through the present)

Turkish Cultural Olympiad Judge for the Southeastern regional competition in the United States for middle school and high school students. The Olympiad is held 120 countries with 750 finalists sent to Turkey for the finals. I judge Turkish poetry, song, and folk dance. The Olympiad is sponsored by the Republic of Turkey’s Parliament, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Turkish Language Association (TDK), the Atatürk Cultural Center, the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA), the International Universities’ Union, the Foundation of Journalists and Writers and the Turkish Hearths Education and Culture Foundation. (2009-2012).

American Anthropologist, Reviewer Served as a reviewer for articles submitted to this professional journal at the Invitation of the editor (2008-2010)

Pennsylvania State University, Publication Series in Folklore and Ethnology Served as a reviewer for articles submitted to this series, at the invitation of the editor, Distinguished Professor Simon J. Bronner (2008)

Archibald Smith Plantation, City of Roswell, Georgia Collections care and organization for 22,000 artifacts (2004-2009) American Folklore Society Member of Program Committee for Annual Meeting (2005) MJCC / Lisa Brill Institute of Jewish Learning “Discovering Women’s Voices” co-chairperson and moderator (2003-2005) Committee Member / Volunteer / Discussion Leader (1999 - 2005) Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta Volunteer for the Adult Education Program (2000-2001) Tennis in the ‘Hood, Inc. Evaluator for the Federal “Twenty-first Century Learning Center” grant and Volunteer grant writer (2003-2006) Georgia Council for the Arts Panelist for Review of Georgia Folklife Grant Applications (2001- 2004)

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American Association of Museums Member, Host Committee, State Liaison (1997) Atlanta International Museum of Art and Design Board Member (1995-1997) National Endowment for the Humanities Regional Evaluator for Museum Projects (1995 – 1996) Fulton County Arts Council Panelist for Review of School Arts Program Artists (1995-1997) Center for Applied Research in Anthropology at Georgia State University Board Member (1995-1997) Fulton County Public Schools Foundation, Inc. Board Member (1996 - 1997), Panelist for Review of Faculty Grants (1997) Campaign for a Prosperous Georgia Board Member (1997) Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries Advisory Board Member (1996-1997), Board Member (1994-1996) State Intern Program Co-chair (1995-1997) Fulbright Alumni Association Member of Georgia chapter (2000 - 2003)

PUBLICATIONS Academic/ Peer-Reviewed Articles “Between Cross and Crescent: British Diplomacy and Press Opinion Toward the Ottoman Empire in Resolving the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913” in War and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, and Their Sociopolitical Implications, Edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and Isa Blumi, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2013. “Landscapes and Memory: Reconstructing the Ethbnobotany of Smith Plantation” in Heritage 2012: Proceedings of the Third International Conference and Heritage and Sustainable

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Development. Porto, Portugal: Green Lines Institute, June 19-22, 2012. “Hidden Heritage, Disappearing Legacy: Jews and the Politics of Memory in the Post- Ottoman City,” in the proceedings from Heritage 2010: Heritage and Sustainable Development, Edited by Rogério Amoêda, Sérgio Lira, and Cristina Pinheiro, Barcelos, Portugal: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, 2010. “History as Others’ Spaces: Using Foucault’s Heterotopia to Explore Intangible Heritage in Istanbul,” in the proceedings from Sharing Cultures 2009: International Conference on Intangible Heritage, Edited by Sérgio Lira et al, Barcelos, Portugal: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, 2009. Eleven entries in the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Norman Stillman, Executive Editor, The Hague, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 2010: “Ariyas, Abraham.” “Algazi, Isaac.” “Algazi, Solomon.” “Varon, Ishak.” “Longo, Saadiah ben Abraham.” “Lonzano, Menahem ben Judah de.” “Aboud (Abut), Avram (Misirli Ibrahim).” “Maftirim.” “Faro, Moses.” “Shikar, Shem Tov (Hoca Santo).” “Fresco [also, Fresko] Romano, Isaac” [also, Tamburi İsak Efendi]. Additional article on “Moreno, Dario” (2013). Eight articles in Alcohol in Popular Culture, Edited by Rachel Black. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2010: “Arts” (pp.11-14); “Cocktails” (pp.56-61); “Drinking Glasses and Vessels” (pp. 72-74); “Hooch” (pp.109-111); “Music” (pp.136-138); “National Identity” (pp/139-140); “Punch” (pp.157-158); “Religion” (pp.161-165). “Dario Moreno and Sephardic Cosmopolitanism,” New York: Secular Culture and Ideas (an online, reviewed journal), at http://www.jbooks.com/secularculture/Dorn_Sezgin.htm January, 2008. “Nineteenth Century Science” and “Social Attitudes in Antebellum America” in Encyclopedia of the Nineteenth Century New York: Golson Press, 2008. “The Southern Homefront,” “Currier and Ives,” and “Plantation Life” in One Day in History: April 12, 1861. Edited by Rodney P. Carlisle. New York: Harper Collins and Smithsonian Books, 2008. “Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire,” Chapter 11 of From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times: Essential Studies on Sephardic Jewry. Edited by Zion Zohar, New York: New York University Press, 2005. “Teaching Tolerance and Balkan Cultures Through Music: Models from Early 20th Century Sound Recordings,” accepted for publication in Changing the Teaching Culture About the Balkans, Proceedings of the Second Conference, Vlatadon Initiative, edited by Bishop Emanuel,

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Liaison of the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church to the European Union, Brussels, Belgium, September, 2001. “Making History Live: Creating Audio Experiences in Museum Exhibits and Programming,” in Hand to Hand, the Children’s Museums Journal, Virginia (November 2001, Volume 15, Number 3). “Hakhamim, Dervishes and Court Singers: the Relationship of Ottoman Jewish Music to Classical Turkish Music.” Chapter in The Jews of the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Avigdor Levy, Brandeis University, Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 1994, pp. 585-632. “A la Turka / a la Franka: Cultural Ideology and Change.” In Cahiers d’etudes sur la Mediterranee orientale et le monde turco-iranien (CEMOTI). Edited by Samih Vaner, Paris, France, No. 11, 1991. Middle Eastern Music. With Dr. Sally Monsour. Arlington, VA: Music Educators National Conference, 1990. “Gender and Personhood: Turkish Jewish Proverbs and the Politics of Reputation.” In Women’s Studies International Forum. London: Pergamon Press, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1986. “Patterns of Change in the Istanbul Jewish Community.” In Middle East Research in Anthropology Vol. 8, No. 2, 1984. Materials for Teachers and Museum Docents: Training Manual for Alsace to America Exhibit and brochure: Types of Judaica Appearing in Alsace to America. Jackson, Mississippi: Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, 1998. Workbook for Incorporating Mississippi’s Ethnic History into the Curriculum. Jackson: Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, 1998. Handbook for Ethnobotany: History and Science Across the Curriculum. Atlanta, GA: Fulton County Schools / Teaching Museum, 1997. Handbook for Atlanta’s Ethnic Pluralism for Teachers. Atlanta: Fulton County Schools / Teaching Museum, 1996. Handbook for the Civil Rights Movement in Art, Literature and Music. Atlanta: Fulton County Schools / Teaching Museum, 1994 Handbook for Historic Preservation Seminar for Teachers. Volume I: Community Resources

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(1994), Volume II: Southside Neighborhoods (1995). Volume III: Downtown (1996). Atlanta: Fulton County Schools / Teaching Museum, 1994-1996. Handbook for the Bill of Rights Seminar for Teachers. Atlanta: Fulton County Schools/ Teaching Museum, 1993.

Courses Prepared to Teach “Cultural Anthropology,” “Introduction to Anthropology,” “Anthropological Theory,” “Biological Anthropology,” “Ethnology,” “Qualitative Research Methods in Anthropology,” “Anthropology of Religions and Belief Systems,” “Jewish Ethnology,” “Middle Eastern Women,” “Anthropology of the Middle East,” “Anthropology of Food.,” “Race, Gender, Nation, Ideology and Identity,” “The Turks in History,” “Anthropology of Things,” “History of Science,” “History of the Late Ottoman Empire (18th through the early 20th centuries),” “Museum Studies,” “World History Survey Course: Parts I and II,” and “Cultural Geography.”

Films Served as a consultant and writer on two documentary films: “Alsace to America,” produced by Communications Arts in Jackson, Mississippi (1997), and “Turkey’s Sephardim: 500 Years” by Laurence Salzmann in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1989).

INVITED LECTURES AND PAPERS PRESENTED International Conference: Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories. Sponsored by the AHRC Research Network, June 26-27, 2014, Birbeck College, University of London, “Transcultural Memory: Reconstructing Late Ottoman Kadıkőy, a District in Cosmopolitan Istanbul.” Mediterranean Studies Association, May 28-31, 2014, Marbella, Spain, “Mes Andalousies: Enrico Macias’ Musical Patrimonies.”

Georgia Association of Historians, February 28, 2014, Athens, Georgia, “Doing Digital Historiography: Every Place is Gezi Park” (for the panel, “Changing Ways in the Practice of History) and Panel Chair for “Perspectives on Colonialism and Empire: Accommodation, Consolidation and Resistance.”

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American Historical Association, January 2-5, 2014, Washington D.C., “Comparing Models of Balkan Nationalism to Ottomanism, 1856-1914” and Panel Chair for the panel, “Balkan Muslims between Empires and Nation-States (1800-1914). Association for Jewish Studies, December 15-17, 2013, Boston, “Enrico Macias: Performing a Post-colonial Identity.” Department of Spanish Colloquium, November 4, 2013, University of North Georgia, Oconee Campus, Featured Speaker: “Alma, Vida y Corazón: Judeo-Spanish Songs from the Eastern Mediterranean. “ Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, November 14-17, 2013, Indiana University – Bloomington, “Kadıköy: Searching for the Greek Past of an Istanbul Neighborhood.” Middle Eastern Studies Association, October 10-14, 2013, New Orleans, “Modernizing the Millet: Late Nineteenth Century Legal Reforms for Non-Muslim Ottomans.” Part of five panels on Ottoman legal reforms. Teaching World History Workshop, “Empires,” October 4, 2013, Georgia Highlands University, Cartersville Campus, Presenter for “Teaching the Ottoman Empire” and discussion group leader. University of Utah, Turkish Studies Project, Conference IV: The Caucasus at Imperial Twilight: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building, 1870s to 1920s, June, 2013, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Panel Chair for Panel X: Nationalism: Turks and Kurds; also presented a paper, “Imam Shamil’s Enduring Legacy” on Panel XI (B), Literature, Art and the Nation.

American Historical Association, January, 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana; “Rıza Tevfik, Ottoman Turkey, and the First Universal Races Congress of 1911.” SEWHA (Southeastern World History Association), October 2012. Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, “Debating the Imaginary: Late Nineteenth Century Ottoman Concepts of the Nation.” And Chair of the Panel: Thematic Approaches: Increasing Student Engagement in World Civilization II. Gainesville World Affairs Club, October 10, 2012, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, Georgia, Crisis in Syria Faculty Panel Presentation: “Modern Syrian Political History and the Roots of the Crisis.” Heritage 2012, June, 2012, Porto: Portugal, “Landscapes and Memory: Reconstructing the Ethnobotany of Smith Plantation.” And Chair of the Panel: Heritage and Economics. Mediterranean Studies Association, May-June, 2012, Pula, Croatia, “Songs from the Greek and

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Turkish Population Exchanges, 1912-1913: Using Music to Understand History.” And Chair of the Music Panel. University of Utah, Turkish Studies Project, Conference III: The Ottoman Empire in World War I. Co-sponsored by the University of Sarajevo, Bosniak Institute and the Turkish Historical Institute (Ankara), May 2012, Sarajevo, Bosnia: “Greeks, Jews and Armenians: A Comparative Analysis of Non-Muslim Nascent Nationalisms in the late Ottoman Empire during World War I.” AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies), May 2012, Charleston, South Carolina: "Los Frankos: Italian Jews as Agents of Modernity in the Late Ottoman Diaspora." AHGSU (Association of Historians at Georgia State University), April 13, 2012, KEYNOTE panelist, “The First World War: A Centennial Appraisal of Global Origins and Legacies – The Ottoman Empire in World War I.” Georgia Association of Historians, February, 2012, Macon, Georgia:“Landscapes and Memory: Reconstructing the Ethnobotany of Smith Plantation.” Organizer of two panels on environmental history.

Mediterranean Studies Association, May, 2011, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece; “The Maftirim: Circumnavigating Mediterranean Paradigms with a Sephardic Jewish Song Tradition.” University of Utah, Turkish and Islamic Studies Program, May, 2011, Conference on the Lasting Impacts of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), Salt Lake City, “Between Cross and Crescent: British Diplomacy and Press Opinion Toward the Ottoman Empire in Resolving the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913.” Georgia Association of Historians, February, 2011, Savannah, Chair and Organizer of two panels, “Muslims in Europe,” and “Five Thousand Years in One Semester: Teaching Strategies for History 1111.” Presented,”The Past in the Present: Historical Parameters of the September 12th Constitutional Referendum in Turkey.”

SEWHA (Southeastern World History Association), October, 2010, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA: Panel chair and organizer of “Five Thousand Years in One Semester: Teaching Strategies for History 1111.” Heritage 2010, June,2010, Évora, Portugal, “Hidden Heritage, Disappearing Legacy: Jews and the Politics of Memory in the Post-Ottoman City,” and Panel Chair for “Heritage and Environment.” Sharing Cultures 2009, May-June, 2009, Pico Island, the Azores (Portugal), “History as

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Others’ Spaces: Using Foucault’s Heterotopia to Explore Intangible Heritage in Istanbul.” and Panel Chair for “Intangible Heritage and Education.” Georgia Association of Historians, March, 2009, Dahlonega, Georgia, “History as Others’ Spaces: Using Foucault's Heterotopia to Mine the Frontiers of Intangible Heritage in Istanbul" and Panel Chair for “New Approaches in Teaching the Modern World History Survey.” Creative Expressions of the Sephardic Experience, Indiana University – Bloomington, March 2009, “Cosmopolitanism and Sephardic Jewish Song.” Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, January, 2009, Marietta, Georgia, “Consultants or Contractors: Getting Things Done at the Understaffed Museum.”

American Folklore Association, October, 2008, Louisville, Kentucky, “Art, Artifact and Identity: Alsatian Jewish Folk Art in the Deep South.”

Governor’s Teaching Fellows Reunion, January, 2008, University of Georgia, Athens, “Teaching with YouTube.” Association for Jewish Studies, December, 2007, Toronto, Canada, “Dario Moreno and the Transformation of Sephardic Culture in the Twentieth Century.” American Association of State and Local History, September, 2007, “Relevance: Reinterpreting the House Museum.” Panel Chair and Presenter. Roswell Historical Society, September, 2007, “What the Artifacts Can Tell Us at the Archibald Smith Plantation Home.” Gainesville State College, Main Campus, April, 2007, “Women in Islam,” as part of Understanding Islam: a One-Day Conference. Georgia Association of Historians, April, 2007, Milledgeville, Georgia, “Art, Artifact, and the Continuity of Alsatian Jewish Identity in the American South: 1820-1998.”

Biennial Scholars’ Conference on American Jewish History, June, 2006, Charleston, S.C. “Country Jews: Reconsidering Nineteenth Century Alsatian Jewish Identity in the American South” on the panel, Southern Strategies < www.cofc.edu/~jwst/pages/biennial_scholars.htm> Gainesville State College, Oconee Campus, March, 2006. Invited lecture for Women’s History Month, “When God was a Woman: Religion in the Neolithic and Ancient Near East.” American Folklore Society, October, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, Paper and Panel Chair. “A Museum’s Ethnobotany Garden: Planting the Seeds of Tolerance” on the panel Teaching

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Tolerance via Folklore in Museums. Sephardic Woman, Symposium at Florida International University, February, 2003, Miami, “Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire.” Vlatadon Initiative, European Union Conference, September, 2001, Sofia, Bulgaria. “Teaching Tolerance via Music: a Balkan Case Study.” Maurice Amado Foundation, June, 2001, University of California, Los Angeles. “Ottoman Jewish Music.” American Association of Museums, Annual Meeting, May, 2001, St. Louis, panel chair and Paper on “Doing Ethnography in Museums.” Georgia State University, Arab-American Seminar, April, 2001, Atlanta, panel chair and talk on “The History of Arab-Americans in Georgia.” University of Texas, Middle East Studies Seminar, March, 2000, Austin., “Ottoman Music: a Multi-ethnic Mix.” Southeastern Museums Conference, Annual Meeting, October, 1999, Birmingham. “School and Museum Partnerships.” Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, Annual Meeting, January, 1999, Americus. Workshop on “Blockbuster Exhibits: Using Oral History to Build Interpretation.” International Society for Ethnobiology, Annual Meeting, March, 1997, Athens. “Using a School’s Ethnobotany Garden to Teach Georgia History.” American Association of Museums, Annual Meeting, April, 1997, Atlanta. “Painting the Doors Red: Public Relations for the Small Museum.” Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, Annual Meeting, January, 1996, Moultrie. “Developing Museum and School Collaborations.” Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, Annual Meeting, January, 1995, Jekyll Island. “Tools of the Trade: Grant Writing for the Small Museum.” Southeastern Museums Conference, Annual Meeting, October, 1994, Memphis. “Ethnographic Research in Museums.” Wisconsin Humanities Council, University of Wisconsin, April, 1992, Madison. “Cosmopolitans at Home: Sephardic Jewish Music and Culture in the Nineteenth

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Century, Ottoman Empire.” Georgia Humanities Council, Emory University, May, 1992, Atlanta. “A la Turka / A la Franka: Semiotics and Music in the late Ottoman Empire.” Second International Interdisciplinary Conference on Sephardic Studies, State University of New York, April, 1991, Binghamton. “Music and Culture in the late Ottoman Empire.” The American Turkish Society for the Quincentennial Foundation of Istanbul, October, 1990, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. Invited lecture. “Hakhamim, Dervishes and Court Singers.” First International Interdisciplinary Conference on Sephardic Studies, SUNY, April, 1987, Binghamton, Invited lecture. “Gossip Songs and the Politics of Reputation in the Kantigas of the Eastern Sephardim.” Brandeis University, May, 1987, Waltham, Invited lecture: “Ottoman Jewish Music.” The Second International Conference on Turkish Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. “Disemia in Dialectic: an Ottoman Example.” The National Women’s Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Spelman College, June, 1987, Atlanta. “Sephardic Proverbs and the Politics of Reputation.” The Georgia State University Center for Applied Research in Anthropology, 1986, Atlanta. “Notes from the Field: Cultural Anthropological Fieldwork in the Middle East.” The Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, 1985, New Orleans. “A la Turka / A la Franka: Semiotics in Turkish Urban Society and Music.” The American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, 1985, Washington., D.C. “Gender and Language: Notes from the Field.” The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, 1985, Philadelphia. “The Multicultural Atlanta Project: Middle Eastern Immigration to Georgia.” The Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Meeting, 1983, Tallahassee. “Cultural Ideology and Musical Change.” The American Folklore Society, Annual Meeting, 1983, Nashville. “Language, Gender, and Fieldwork in a Middle Eastern Setting.” The American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, 1983, Chicago.

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“History, Music, and Culture: Understanding the Inheritance of the Ottoman Empire”

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS ORGANIZED Understanding Islam: a One-Day Conference, Department of Religion, Gainesville State College, April, 2007. Wrote a grant proposal served on a committee from the Division of Social Sciences, conducted registration and served as a workshop leader, making a presentation on “Islamic Women.” Organized book discussion groups which followed the conference. Obtained funding from the Georgia Humanities Council and administered the grant. Organized and conducted the following workshops: Discover Greece, Discover Yourself / Planning and Implementing a Study Abroad Program, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Seminar for Faculty, Gainesville State College, November, 2008 with Dr. Nina Lamson Using Shared Class Files / Innovative Teaching Techniques, CTL Seminar, Gainesville State College, February, 2006 Understanding the Millennials and their Learning Styles, CTL Seminar, Gainesville State College, October, 2005 Enculturating the Oconee Student, Gainesville College, August, 2004 and August, 2005 Oral History Training Seminar, Gainesville College, 2002. Organized the following state-wide conferences for the International Intercultural Studies Program of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia: Central American Seminar, University Center in Georgia with Atlanta University, 1988. Middle East Seminar, University Center in Georgia with The Carter Presidential Center, 1988. Third Annual International Studies Conference in Georgia, “International Business and Higher Education,” International Intercultural Studies Program with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), 1987. Second Annual International Studies Conference in Georgia, “Internationalizing the Campus,” International Intercultural Studies Program with Georgia College, 1986. First Annual International Studies Conference in Georgia, “Studying Abroad: Opportunities for Georgia Students,” The International Intercultural Studies Program, 1985.

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FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES AND GRANTS Institutional Grants: - Milliken Foundation Matching Grant for Museum Education (2001) - $3.5 Million raised from individual pledges for capital campaign (1999-2001) - Georgia Council for the Arts (1999-2000) - Georgia Historical Records Act Board (1999-2000) - Governor’s Discretionary Fund (1999-2000) - Georgia Humanities Council (1993-2007) - Georgia Power (1999) - Roy C. Moore Foundation (1999) - Robert Woodruff Foundation (1999, 1996) - Mississippi Arts Commission (1997-1998) - Mississippi Humanities Council (1997-1998) - Urban Resources Partnership / U.S. Department of Agriculture (1996-1997) - Institute of Museum Services (1996-1999) - Fulton County Arts Council (1993-1998) - Arts in the Atlanta Project (1994) - Harland Foundation (1994) - Franklin Foundation (1993) - Whitehead Foundation (1992) - Conference Grant from the University Center (1988) Individual Grants: -University of North Georgia, HAP Departmental Travel Grant (2013) - Gainesville State College, Travel Grants (2004-2012) - University of Utah Turkish Studies Project, Travel Grants (2010-2013) - Innovative Teaching Grant, Gainesville College, 2010, 2008, 2005 - Folger Shakespeare Library, Seminar Tuition Scholarship, 2007 – Travel Grant, Institute of Turkish Studies, 1990 – Georgia Council of the Arts Grant for Turkish Festival, 1988-89 – Indiana University Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1984 – Indiana University Doctoral Grant-in-Aid, 1984, 1981 – Jerusalem Center for Anthropological Studies Grant, 1983 – FULBRIGHT HAYS FELLOWSHIP for Turkey, 1981-82 – Turkish Ministry of Education Grant, 1982 – Esther Bleich Memorial Scholarship, 1982-83 – Pauline Glenn Memorial Scholarship for Israel, 1983 – Turkish Studies Fellowship, Indiana University, 1979-80 – Lambda Alpha National Graduate Study Fellowship, 1977 – Georgia State University Alumni Association Grant for Honors Thesis Research, 1977 – Georgia State University Foundation Grant, 1976 – Georgia Regents Scholarships, 1974-76

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PUBLIC HISTORY EXHIBITIONS AND FIELD RESEARCH “Family Matters: Artifacts, Art, Textiles, and Texts from the Smith Family Collections.” Developed and installed a permanent, but rotating exhibit of nineteenth century artifacts in the Main House at the Archibald Smith Plantation Home, Historic Site, City of Roswell, November, 2008.

“Tool Exhibit in the Carriage House.” Developed and installed a permanent exhibit of nineteenth century tools and farm equipment at the Archibald Smith Plantation Home, Historic Site, City of Roswell, and October, 2007.

“Garden and Hearth: Baskets from Smith Plantation” (Exhibit). Developed research, educational materials, and exhibit on baskets owned by three generations of the Smith family who lived in the same North Georgia homestead for 160 years, May – September 2007. Material Culture of a North Georgia Yeoman Farm Family in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: the Archibald Smith Family Collections at Smith Plantation, Roswell, Georgia. Completed a draft of a 5-volume, 400 page catalogue of the artifacts, objects, archival materials, furniture, and textiles found at this historic site. Also, have surveyed the Smith Family Papers in the State of Georgia Archives to reconstruct provenance on the materials found at Smith Plantation, 2003-2006. Chicopee Oral History Project. Serve on an interdisciplinary team of social scientists at Gainesville College researching a local mill and village from the 1920s. Funded by the Georgia Humanities Council 2002-2003. North Georgia, U.S.A. Coordinated research for Tradition and Change in the Northeast Georgia Mountains, a photographic exhibit funded by the Georgia Council for the Arts, 1999-2000, and Living Legacies: Oral History of Gainesville and Environs, funded by the Georgia Humanities Council, 1999-2000. Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, U.S.A. Coordinated and supervised research team for exhibit, Alsace to America: Discovering a Southern Jewish Heritage, 1997-1998. Southeastern United States. Conducted applied anthropological research on minority preference and affirmative action programs in 11 Southern states for the Southern Regional Council, 1990-1991. Istanbul, Turkey, and Yehud, Israel. Dissertation research on Ideology and Change: The Ethnomusicology of Turkish Jewry, 1981-1983.

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Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Folkloric and Historic Survey of the Sephardic Jewish Community for the Cincinnati Historical Society, 1980. Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. Research in Sephardic Cultural Continuity and Archiving of 78 rpm discs for the Archives of Traditional Musics, Indiana University, 1979. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Honors Thesis Research with Greek, Jewish and Syrian-Lebanese Americans, 1976-1977. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Ethnographic research on Middle Eastern and Balkan immigrant communities and the foreign student experience at Atlanta universities for the Multicultural Atlanta Project, 1976.

Professional Association Memberships American Historical Association (AHA) Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Southeastern World History Association (SEWHA) Mediterranean Studies Association (MSA) American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) American Anthropological Association (AAA) Georgia Association of Historians (GAH) Delta Kappa Gamma International Education Organization American Association/Alliance of Museums (AAM) Hobbies Music: performer of Classical Turkish, Western European Art, and World Musics (voice, flute, piano, oboe, English horn, harpsichord, balalaika). For 10 years, I was the manager of the Atlanta Turkish Music Choir, soloist, and a member of the instrumental ensemble. Also, I am a specialist in performing and reviving Sephardic Jewish music and culture. Ethnobotany: interested in botanical cultures/histories of the Southeastern United States, and of the Balkan and Mediterranean regions. Maintain an organic garden at home. Film: participated in the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival for the past 11 years.