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RONALD A MESSIER
EDUCATION Ph.D. (History) University of
Michigan, 1972 M.A. (History) University of
Michigan, 1968 B.A. (History) University of
Rhode Island, 1966 PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE Middle Tennessee State
University, 1972-Present, Director of the Honors Program, 1980-1990 Adjunct Professor of History and
Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University, 1993-Present Eastern Michigan University,
1970-1972 PUBLICATIONS Books
Jihad
and Its Times. Co-edited with Hadia
Dajani-Shakeel. Ann Arbor: Michigan Center Series on the Middle East, IV, Center
for Near East and North African Studies, 1992
In
the Shadow of Shields: a Story of the Almoravids. (Under
Submission). Sijilmasa:
an African Eldorado De-Mythicised.
(In Progress). Chapters
in Books "Re-Reading Texts through
Multi-Disciplinary Glasses." The
Maghrib in Question. Ed. Kenneth J. Perkins. Austin: The University of Texas
Press, 1997. "Sijilmasa: l'intermédiaire
entre la Méditerranée et l'Ouest de l'Afrique," L'Occident Musulman et
l'Occident Chrétien au Moyen Age. Ed. Mohammed Hammam.
Rabat:Publications de la Faculté des Lettres, 1995. "The Almoravids and Holy
War," Jihad and its Times.
Co-editors Hadia Dajani-Shakeel and Ronald A. Messier.
Ann Arbor: Michigan Center Series on the Middle East, IV, Center for Near
East and North African Studies, 1992. "The Christian Community of
Tunis at the Time of St. Louis' Crusade."
The Meeting of Two
Worlds. Ed. Vladimir P. Goss,
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1986. "Selection Criteria and
Methods of Utilizing Audio Visual Resources." The Middle East, the
Image and the Reality. Ed. Jonathan Friedlander. Berkeley:
University of California, 1980.
Articles "Sijilmasa: Five Seasons of
Archaeological Inquiry by a Joint Moroccan-American Mission." Archéologie
Islamique. Paris: Editions Maisonneuve et Larose, 1997. "Archaelogical Survey of
Sijilmasa - 1988." Bulletin
d' Archéologie Marocain. Rabat:Institut des Sciences d'Archéologie et du
Patrimoine, 1998. "Empires of Ancient
Morocco" Ground Truth:Research and Exploration.
Boston: a publication of Earthwatch (1995). "Local Economy and Long
Distance Trade in Medieval Sijilmasa." Usur
al-Wusta (April, 1993). "Moroccan-American
Expedition to Sijilmasa, Morocco." National
Geographic Research 13 (Spring, 1991): 134. "Quantitative Analysis of
Almoravid Dinars." Journal of the
Economic and Social History of the
Orient 23 (1980). "The Almoravids and West
African Gold." Journal of the
Economic and Social History of the
Orient 17 (1974).
CONFERRENCE
PAPERS AND LECTURES (last
ten years) "The Sijilmasa Mosque."
International Conference on Adobe Architecture sponsored by Mohammed V
University in Rabat, Morocco: November, 1996. "The Grand Mosque of
Sijilmasa--Four Stages of Development."
Middle East Studies Association, Providence, RI: November 1996. "The African Gold Trade from
Romans to Arabs." The
Parthenon Lecture Series, Nashville, Tennessee: November, 1995. "Le role de Sijilmasa comme
intermédaire entre la Méditerranée et l'ouest Afrique." International
Conference on the Medieval Western Mediterranean sponsored by Mohammed V
University in Rabat, Morocco: November, 1994. "Special Session on
Sijilmasa." The Middle East Studies Association, Research Triangle, NC:
November, 1993. "The Archaeology of
Sijilmasa." Vanderbilt
University: November 1992; Northeastern University, February 1993; Old Dominion
University, March 1993. "Local Agriculture and Water
Resources of Medieval Sijilmasa." Earthwatch Annual Conference, Boston, MA:
February 1993. "In Search of Medieval
Sijilmasa--the Archaeological Record." The Middle East Studies Association,
Portland, Oregon: October 1992. "Sijilmasa--Testing an
Historical Model through Archaeology." Earthwatch Annual Conference,
Boston, MA: March 1991. "Sijilmasa--the Archeology
of an Islamic City." Third Annual Sijilmasa Conference, Rissani, Morocco:
December 1990. Member of the American Delegation
to the Maghrib Historiography Seminar in Oran, Algeria: June 5-9, 1989. Invited speaker at the Symposium
on Saharan Archaeology, Northwestern University: April 8, 1989. "Sijilmasa, Nerve Center of
the Medieval Gold Trade." American Archaeological Society, Nashville
Chapter, Vanderbilt University: December 13, 1988. GRANTS
AND AWARDS MTSU Distinguished Research
Award: 1997 MTSU Summer Research Grant: 1996 MTSU Instructional Technology
Grant: Summer 1996 MTSU Non Instructional
Assignment: Spring, 1996 MTSU Summer Research Grant: 1995 National Geographic Research
Grant: 1994 Earthwatch Grant: 1994 Council for Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE) 1993 Tennessee Professor of the Year Earthwatch Grant: 1993 Fulbright Serial Grant: 1992-1994 Max Van Berchem Foundation Grant:
1992 National Geographic Research
Grant: 1992 Earthwatch Grant: 1992 MTSU Non-Instructional
Assignment: Fall, 1988 National Geographic Research
Grant: 1988 Social Science Research Council
Fellowship: 1988 American Institute for Maghribi
Studies Grant: 1987 MTSU Faculty Research Grant: 1987 MTSU Outstanding Honors Faculty
Award: 1978 MTSU Outstanding Teacher Award:
1976 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in
Tunisia: 1969-1970 National Defense Language
Fellowships: 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69 ACADEMIC
PUBLIC SERVICE
(Since 1990) Guest Lecturer for the Santa
Barbara Museum of Art Tours in Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Syria, and
Jordan: 1992-Present Southeast Regional Middle East
and Islamic Studies Seminar Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers:
1981, 1984, 1991, 1994, 1995 Faculty Senate, Middle Tennessee
State University: 1992-1994 PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS Middle East Studies
Association (MESA) American Institute for Magribi
Studies (AIMS) South East Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar (SERMEISS) |
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