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New director brings vast experience and knowledge to task of developing a new educational resource and organizing the teacher workshop program
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| Before coming to the Middle East Policy Council as Education Director, Barbara Petzen was outreach coordinator at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, a Title VI National Resource Center charged with disseminating information on the Middle East and Islam to the K-12 community, media organizations, and the public. She has taught courses on Middle Eastern history, Islam and women's studies at Dalhousie University and St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has also served as tutor and teaching assistant at Harvard University, where she will complete her doctoral dissertation in Middle Eastern history. She earned her BA in International Politics and Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia College and a second Honours BA in Oriental Studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Her academic interests include Ottoman history, the history and present concerns of women in the Middle East and the Islamic world, the role of Islam in Middle Eastern and other societies, relations and perceptions between the Islamic world and the West, and the necessity for globalizing K-12 education in the United States. As outreach director at Harvard, Petzen was responsible for organizing and/or presenting an ever-increasing number of workshops on the Middle East and Islam to teachers and the general public - in 2006-7 alone, the Center held over 90 such workshops. |
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