Teaching Connected Histories of the Mediterranean

FAIN: ES-50578-14

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)
Peter Mandaville (Project Director: March 2014 to April 2015)
Susan Douglass (Project Director: April 2015 to June 2015)
Maria Massi Dakake (Project Director: June 2015 to May 2016)
Andrea L. Stanton (Co Project Director: April 2015 to May 2016)

A three-week institute for thirty school teachers on the Mediterranean region in a world-historical context.

"Teaching Connected Histories of the Mediterranean" offers high school teachers of regular and world history, geography, and global studies the opportunity to examine the Mediterranean region from a world historical perspective, under the guidance of Peter Mandaville, Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, Andrea L. Stanton, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Denver, and Susan Douglass, Senior Research Associate at the Ali Vural Ak Center and Education Outreach Consultant at the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. The institute provides participants with scholarly lectures, collaborative work on primary sources, and hands-on experience with arts and world history curriculum materials, with the goal that teachers exposed to scholarship on the Mediterranean region will integrate it more thoroughly into their curricula.