27 March 2017: a new brief piece of mine on teaching migration and refugee history appears on IEHS ONLINE, the website of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. My Spring 2017 course, Migrants and Refugees in the Middle East, meets Tuesday evenings, and it seems like… Read More
On April 4, Fresno State will host speakers from US CIS, a variety of organizations devoted to resettlement of Syrian refugees, as well as Dr. Keith Watenpaugh, historian of refugees and human rights at UC-Davis. The all-day event features expertise on all sides of the… Read More
22 December 2016: Fresno-area media outlet interviewed me for a short web video on the Syrian conflict and refugee resettlement in the Central Valley. The piece appears on GVWire.com and will be the first in a series dedicated to the covering Syrian asylees in Fresno. The… Read More
30 May 2016: last November I met with asylum officers at US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) to give a historical briefing of the Syrian conflict and to discuss the Syrian refugee movement. The meeting was facilitated by UC Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies,… Read More
18 November 2015: Today I met with US Citizenship and Immigration Services officers in the San Francisco Asylum Office to brief them on the Syrian conflict and some of the issues they will confront as they consider resettlement cases involving Syrian refugees. The meeting is… Read More
