Our Visiting Fulbright Fellows

Dr. Michael Herb

Dr. Herb will be with us during the spring semester conducting research and teaching a course on Arab Politics. His research is on Kuwaiti politics, specifically the relationship between the Majlis al-Umma (National Assembly) and the government, to better understand how this has changed over time, and the degree to which Kuwait is - or is not - moving in a more democratic direction. Dr. Herb received his PhD from UCLA, and is currently an associate professor at Georgia State University. He was in Kuwait as a Fulbright student in 1993-94, and later published a book that drew, in part, from his research in Kuwait titled "All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies." Dr. Herb has also written on oil and politics, and democratization in monarchical systems of government.
 

Ms. Hema Mohan

Ms. Mohan will be at AUK through November 2007 conducting research on a system to standardize transliteration from Arabic into English. The first portion of her grant was in Yemen, where she attended Arabic language courses. Additionally, Hema is returning as an Administrative Intern in Student Life, where she first worked as a Dartmouth intern in the spring of 2005. Ms. Mohan graduated from Dartmouth College in 2006 with an A.B. in Arabic and Spanish.