MELC Associate Professor Aria Fani, along with poet and translator Adeeba Shahid Talukder, has been awarded the prestigious MLA (Modern Language Association)
Jocelyn Hendrickson, who completed a BA in our department along with a BA in Comparative Religion in 1999, has been awarded the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize for 2023.
This year our department has had a special occasion for self-reflection: a Program Review, as is required of all academic units at UW every ten years. Among other things, the review process calls for a self-study report assessing how we are doing and how we have fared in the past decade.
