Amman Faculty Advisory Committee

The Amman Center is governed by a board of directors of Columbia University senior administrators, and receives guidance and direction from the Office of Global Centers and Global Development in New York and a Faculty Advisory Committee. The Committee provides academic and intellectual input, leadership, and advice regarding the Center’s activities and plans, supports its engagement with faculty, as well as helps identify, expand and advance scholarly exchange, and create innovative and sustainable programming, at and through, the global center.

The Faculty Advisory Committee is chaired by a faculty member who serves a renewable three-year term and is viewed as a thought-leader by other members of the faculty. Committee members represent a wide spectrum of faculty interests and disciplinary areas, and are selected because of their commitment to globalization in general, and to the study of the Middle East, as well as their familiarity with, and interest in, the region’s nations, cultures, and issues.

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Brian Boyd

Director, Museum Anthropology M.A. Program Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology Co-Director, Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Human-Animal Studies

Research Interest

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Sarah Cole

Interim Dean of the School of the Arts Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Laura Kurgan

Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director, Visual Studies Sequence and Director, MS in Design, Computation, and Built Environments Program, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Bruce Shapiro

Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma; Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Research Interest