Christopher Rose has served as Outreach Director at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin since 2000. Over his tenure, the Middle East outreach program at Texas has grown into a vibrant organization through collaboration in a consortium called Hemispheres, through which curriculum development and teacher training are coordinated by the five area studies centers at the University. He travels throughout the state of Texas to conduct workshops and professional development training for educators and frequently presents at state and national conferences.

He has written or co-written numerous curriculum units, and is currently co-host of 15 Minute History, a podcast for educators, students, and history buffs.

He has taken several groups of K-12 educators and undergraduates to the Middle East, and has received grants through the Fulbright-Hays program (both Seminars Abroad and Group Projects Abroad), the Malone Fellowship in Arab and Islamic Studies; and several University of Texas Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Awards. He has served as a review panelist for the national Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program on three occasions. He was recently elected President-Elect of the Middle East Outreach Council.

As a graduate student in the Department of History, he works on the medieval Arab world, with focus on the development of the city of Cairo in the late Fatimid and Mamluk periods.

 

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