[MES Forum] Let us know tomorrow! Re: Project with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies

[McClimans, Melinda]

Dear MES Forum,

Just a quick reminder to let us know by tomorrow if you would like to be on the team that reads our proposal with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Ethics and Human Values, or if you know someone. They do not have to be an expert in Middle East Studies or Jewish Studies. Dr. McCorriston and Dr. Kosstrin outline the plan below. Thanks for your help. We’re truly looking forward to receiving your feedback!

Proposal Feedback “Red Team” Plan:

Following up on a year of relationship-building and taking the advice of our MESC Board into account, the Middle East Studies Center is collaborating with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Ethics and Human Values on a Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Centers Grant. I am working with Hannah Kosstrin (Director, MCJS) and Aaron Yarmel from CEHV. We are planning to have a draft of our proposal by February 7, and are assembling a “red team” to provide feedback on the draft and meet in person to discuss it.



I am writing today with Hannah to invite you to review the grant draft and serve on the “red team.” We are looking for 2–3 people from each of our centers to participate in this process. This will involve receiving the 8-page draft proposal on February 7, reading it within a week, and bringing your feedback to an hour-long in-person meeting on or around February 14 (scheduling poll to come). We invite your feedback on the proposal and the constructive criticism that you bring to inform our final proposal that we will submit to GAHDT at the end of February.

Please let us know by Wednesday, January 22 if you are interested in serving on the red team.

Thanks so much! We are looking forward to this project and to your input.

All the best,

Joy and Hannah





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Dr. Joy McCorriston, Professor
Director, Middle East Studies Center

Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow



Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
4034 Smith Laboratory
174 W. 18th Ave. Columbus, OH 43214



“Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments & Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar” https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803274539

“Landscape History of Hadramawt” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hm5b9p0



“World Prehistory and the Anthropocene” https://wwnorton.com/books/9780500843185

“Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East” https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/archaeology/ancient-near-east1/pilgrimage-and-household-ancient-near-east?format=HB&isbn=9780521768511


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