Please join us for this online discussion featuring panelists who hold PhDs in NELC or NELC-related fields. The panelists will share how they used the skills that they developed in graduate school in a number of different careers. Bring your questions and ideas to what promises to be an interesting and fruitful discussion!
Our panelists are:
Coleman Connelly served as an ACLS postdoctoral fellow at OSU NELC from 2016 to 2018, researching the medieval reception of Greek science and philosophy in Syriac and Arabic. After a stint at NYU, he transitioned to a career in management consulting, supporting high-value deals as a pursuit manager and proposal specialist at a large professional services firm in New York City. Coleman holds an AB in Classics from Princeton and a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard.
Benjamin Gatling a folklorist and Associate Professor in the English Department, Director of the Folklore Program, and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from The Ohio State University and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to Mason, he was a Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. His research interests include oral narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, and Islam in Central Asia.
Shahreena Shahrani is a Malaysian-American educator, writer, and researcher at the University of Montana. She received her PhD in Near Eastern (Arabic) literatures and cultures from OSU in 2016. She has conducted language and cultural studies, and field research on contemporary Arab youth and popular cultures in Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco. Shahreena teaches Arabic and Persian culture courses for the Regional and Culture Studies Department at the University of Montana. She also creates and delivers lectures/presentations on hot topics to various government agencies and personnel. Outside of teaching, Shahreena is an avid gamer. She applies her multicultural expertise by contributing diverse content as freelance author to the gaming industry.
Emilie Zuniga was born and raised in France and completed an BA in Linguistics and Italian at Brigham Young University. She holds a MA and PhD in Arabic Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin with a specialization in TAFL, Arabic sociolinguistics, and dialectology. She is a hyperpolyglot who speaks 7+ languages and she has over 15 years of experience teaching Arabic at the college level (BYU, University of Utah, University of Maryland, University of Texas, and on digital platforms). Since deciding to leave a tenure track position at Brigham Young University, she has been working for Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning app. She is the creator of their first Arabic course, which currently has 3.3 million users worldwide.
To register for this event, please go to: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwucOqqrD4tGteAQ5Ua39zMnaG1b2CB7PPR
