Historian Beth Baron is CCNY's latest CUNY Distinguished Professor.
Historian and author Beth Baron is the latest CUNY Distinguished Professor at T九色视频. She is the 15th current faculty member at CCNY to earn that distinction.
鈥淧rofessor Baron is an internationally renowned scholar whose research is of the highest caliber,鈥 said Mary Driscoll, interim provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. 鈥淪he is hailed by other distinguished scholars in her field for her ability to develop and sustain a powerful argument for the place of women and gender in Middle East Studies.鈥
鈥淧rofessor Beth Baron has conducted groundbreaking research on women's movements, gender and nationalism and social politics in Egypt,鈥 said Erec Koch, dean of CCNY鈥檚 Division of Humanities and the Arts. 鈥淪he has consistently been a vital contributor to the Department of History and to the intellectual life of our academic community in the humanities division.鈥
Baron, who also teaches at , has written three books. Her most recent is 鈥溾 (Stanford University Press, 2014). She co-founded and directs the at the Graduate Center, and heads its Master鈥檚 in Middle Eastern Studies program.
In addition, Baron is president of the , an international group of scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region.
鈥淚 am honored to be a distinguished professor and particularly honored to receive this recognition at an institution which is a national leader in promoting social mobility," said Baron.
Her research has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
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