SETH WARD
University of
Wyoming—College of Arts & Sciences
ACADEMIC PERSONNEL CURRICULUM VITAE
CONTACT
INFORMATION
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Campus Address: HOYT 333 Religious Studies
Program Dept. 3392 1000 E University Laramie, WY 82071 USA[1] |
Campus Phone:
6-WARD Work: (307)
766-9273 |
EDUCATION
1984 Ph.D.,
Near Eastern
Languages and Literatures, Yale
University, New Haven.
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Construction and Repair of Churches and Synagogues in Islamic Law.
1979 M.Phil. Near
Eastern Languages and Literatures, Yale University, New Haven.
1978
M.A.,
Yale
University, New Haven.
1976 M.A. Course
requirements completed, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Institute for
the Advanced Study of the Humanities, New York.
1974
B.A.,
Yale
University, New Haven.
(1972‑1973, Hebrew University, Departments of Arabic and
Assyriology One Year Program, Jerusalem).
(2003-present) Religious Studies, University of Wyoming
Appointment History
2007-present Assistant
Academic Professional Lecturer, Religious Studies
2005-2007 Temporary Academic Professional
Lecturer, Religious Studies
2003-2005 Visiting Associate Professor,
Religious Studies
(2004-2006) Lecturer, History and Religious Studies,
University of Colorado, Boulder[2]
(2002) Visiting Faculty, History,
University of Colorado at Denver
(2002) Visiting Associate Professor,
History, Red Rocks Community College.[3]
(2001) Visiting Associate Professor,
Religious Studies, The Colorado College
(1991‑2001) Asst. Professor, Judaic Studies,
University of Denver.
Disciplinary History:
1991-1993 Judaic Studies
1993-2001 History and Judaic Studies
1995-2000 International Studies (teaching Arabic)
1996-2001 Women’s Studies[4]
1993-1994 Liberal Studies, University College
(1999) Visiting Professor, History, San
Diego State University, Summer Program.
(1994) Visiting Asst. Professor,
Religious Studies, University of Wyoming.
(1983-92) 1983-89: Assistant Professor (Adjunct);
1989-92: Associate Professor (Adjunct), Modern Languages, Pace University, New
York.
(1989‑1991) Lecturer, General Studies/Humanities, Technion‑Israel
Institute of Technology.
(1989‑1990) Lecturer (Adjunct), University of Haifa,
Department of Arabic.
(1989) Visiting Lecturer, Ben‑Gurion
University of the Negev, Department of History.
(1985‑1988) Lecturer, University of Haifa, Department
of Jewish History.
(1985-1986) Lecturer, Jewish History, Oranim‑Seminar
of the Kibbutz Movement, Academic Division.
(1984‑1986) Assistant Professor, Classical and Near
Eastern Languages, Yale University Summer Language Institute.
(1984‑1985) Lecturer, Yale University, Department of
Near Eastern Languages and Literatures.
(1983‑1984) Visiting Faculty, Philosophy/Theology,
Hebrew Union College‑Jewish Institute of Religion (New York).
(1982‑1983) Visiting Lecturer, Religion, Trinity
College (Hartford).
(1981‑1983) Instructor, Yale Summer Language
Institute.
(1981‑1982) Acting Instructor, Near Eastern Languages
and Literatures, Yale University.
(1979‑1980) Teaching Fellow, Near Eastern Languages and
Literatures, Yale University.
2001-03
External
Ph.D. Thesis Advisor, Language Acquisition, School of Education, University of Denver,
Denver.
1997-99
External
MA, Ph.D. comprehensives, and Thesis Advisor, Pastoral Care Counseling. Iliff
School of Theology, Denver.
1993 External Rabbinic Thesis
Advisor, Rabbinics, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los
Angeles.
1990-91 External M.A. Thesis Advisor. Mediterranean Civilizations, University of
Haifa, Haifa.
2001-present Research Associate, Institute for the Study
of Israel in the Middle East, Graduate School of International Studies,
University of Denver
1991-2001 Director, Institute for Islamic-Judaic
Studies, University of Denver
1996-2001 Director, Hispano Crypto-Jewish
Resource Center. maintained reference library on University of Denver
campus, prepared resource folders, funded and supervised oral history project,
consult and advise researchers, journalists and crypto-Jewish descendants.
1994-1996 Associate Director, Center for Israeli
Studies, University of Denver.
1975‑76 Assistant
to the Dean for Public Relations, Alumni Affairs and Development, Herzliyah‑Jewish
Teachers Seminary, New York, New York
75 % Teaching 15 %Professional Development 10 % Service % Admin %
Advising
Year
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Semester
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Course No./Title
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Cr. Hrs.
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Enrollment[6]
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2008
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Summer
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RELI4500-01 Tp: Moses Jesus and Muhammad
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3
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2008
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Spring
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RELI2500-01 Comparing Holy Texts: Scriptures of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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3
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2008
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Spring
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RELI2320-01 History of Islam
=HIST2320-01
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3
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2008
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Spring
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RELI2320-41 History of Islam
=HIST2320-41 |
3
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2007
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Fall
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RELI2040-01 Mid-East Religions: Judaism
Christianity and Islam
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3
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46
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2007
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Fall
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RELI4500-01 Tp:Women in Judaism
=WMST4500-01
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3
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16
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2007
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Fall
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RELI2040-41 Mid-East Religions: Judaism
Christianity and Islam
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3
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30
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2007
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Summer
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RELI 4500-41 Tp: Moses Jesus and Muhammad
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3
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30
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2007
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Spring
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RELI 4500-01 Tp: Jesus/Moses/Muhammad
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3
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14
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2007
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Spring
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RELI 4500-41 Moses Jesus and Muhammad
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3
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31
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2007
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Spring
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LANG 1020-01 2nd Semester: Modern Hebrew
~RELI4900 IND: Hebrew 2
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3
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6
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2006
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Fall
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RELI2320-01 History of Islam
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3
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49
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2006
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Fall
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RELI2320-41 History of Islam
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3
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29
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2006
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Fall
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RELI 4500-02 Tp: Modern Mid-East
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3
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39
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2006
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Fall
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LANG 1010-01 1st Semester: Hebrew 1
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3
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9
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2006
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Spring
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RELI2040-41 Religions of the Middle East:
Judaism Christianity, Islam
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3
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28
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2005
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Fall
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RELI2320-01 History of Islam
=HIST2320-01
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3
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17
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2005
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Fall
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RELI 4500-41 Moses Jesus and Muhammad
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3
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27
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2005
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Fall
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RELI4500-01 Moses Jesus and Muhammad
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3
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15
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2005
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Summer
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RELI 4500 -41 Moses Jesus and Muhammad
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3
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23
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2005
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Fall
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LANG 2030-01 3rd Sem. Heb
~RELI4900
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4
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4
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2005
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Spring
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RELI2040-41 Religions of the Middle East:
Judaism Christianity &Islam
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3
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22
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2005
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Spring
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RELI2040-01 Middle East Religions: Judaism
Christianity & Islam
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3
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77
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2005
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Spring
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RELI4900 2nd Sem. Hebrew
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3
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5
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2005
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Spring
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REL2500-01 Modern Hebrew (cancelled; students
shifted to LANG1020 or
RELI4900)
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3
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0
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2004
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Fall
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RELI2320-01 History of Islam
=HIST2320-01
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3
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29
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2004
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Fall
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RELI2110 Old Testament
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3
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27
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2004
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Fall
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RELI2320-41 History of Islam
=HIST2320-41
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3
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24
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2004
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Fall
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LANG 1010 Hebrew
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3
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3
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2004
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Summer
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RELI2040-41 Religions of the Middle East:
Judaism Christianity &Islam
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3
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25
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2004
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Spring
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RELI4500-41 Special Tps in ReligStudies: Moses,
Jesus &Mohammad
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3
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26
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2004
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Spring
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RELI2320-01 History of Islam
=HIST2320-01
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3
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22
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2004
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Spring
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RELI4500-01 Moses, Jesus and Muhammad
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3
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16
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2004
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Spring
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RELI4900-01 Arabic
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?
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2003
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Fall
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RELI2110-01 Introduction to the Old Testament
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3
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19
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2003
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Fall
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RELI2040-01 Religions of the Middle East
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3
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17
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2003
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Fall
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RELI4900 IND:Hebrew
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3
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2
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2003
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Fall
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HIST2060-41 Topics in History: History of Islam
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3
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26
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2003
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Summer
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RELI2500-41 Special Topics: History of Islam
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3
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42
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2003
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Spring
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HIST2060-01 Topics in History: History of Islam
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3
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19
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2003
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Spring
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HIST2060-41 Topics in History: History of Islam
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3
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23
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2003
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Spring
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HIST 3220-01 Modern Middle East
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3
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31
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2003
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Spring
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RELI 4900 IND:Hebrew
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3
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S. Ward, T. Madsen, R.
Jospe, ed., Covenant and Chosenness in
Mormonism and Judaism with an Introduction and “Appendix: A Literature
Survey of Mormon-Jewish Studies,” by Seth Ward. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press. 2001.
S. Ward, Guest Editor, ‘Avoda and ‘Ibāda, Liturgy and Ritual in
Islamic and Judaic Societies, Special edition of Medieval Encounters: Jewish Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence
and Dialogue, With an introduction by Seth Ward. Leiden: E.J. Brill, vol.
5:1 (1999).
S.
Ward, “Alleles have no Religion,” in “HaLapid Symposium on Ethical Issues,” HaLapid,
Summer 2006.
Makriyianni
I, Hamel N, Foulkes WD, Ward S, Graw S, “BRCA1:185delAG in the San Luis Valley
consistent with Jewish Origin.” Journal
of Medical Genetics, 2005.
S. Ward, “The Holocaust in North Africa and the
Sephardic World.” International Sephardic Journal 1:1 Summer 2004
pp.72-86.
S. Ward, “The Liturgy of Bloch’s Avodat Ha-Kodesh” Modern Judaism, A Journal of Jewish Ideas and
Experience 23:3 (October 2003) 243-263.
S. Ward, “The Presentation
of Jesus: Jewish Perspectives on Luke 2:22-24.” Shofar Winter 2003. 21-39.
S. Ward, “Muhammad
said: ‘You are only a Jew from the Jews of Sepphoris:’ Allegations of Jewish
Ancestry of some Umayyads,” Journal of
Near Eastern Studies 60 (2001), 31-42.
S. Ward, “A
Trust Fund as an impediment to Jewish Apostasy: The Endowment of Dr. Abd
al-Qahir,” CCAR Journal Fall 2000,
50-59.
S. Ward, “Religious
Ethics in the University Setting: The University of Denver Student Symposium on
Jewish Ethics” Panorama: International Journal of Comparative
Religious Education and Values 12:2 (2000) 87-95.
S. Ward, Tsippori be-tekufah ha-aravit (“Sepphoris
in the Islamic Period”), Yerushalayim
ve-Eretz Israel (Arie Kindler Volume), J. Schwartz, ed., Ingerborg Rennert
Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan University / Eretz Israel Museum, Tel
Aviv. Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 5760/2000, pp. 147-154.
S. Ward, “Covenant
and Chosenness in Mormonism and Judaism: A Report and Introduction” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 36 (1999) 3-
4. (1999) 492-498.
This is a revised version of introduction to S. Ward,
T. Madsen, R. Jospe, ed., Papers from the Conference on Covenant and Chosenness
in Mormonism and Judaism, with an introduction by Seth Ward. (Denver: Center for Judaic Studies, February
1999), with additional information about the conference. It appeared in early
September 2000 and was substantially revised to form the “Introduction” to the
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press edition.
S. Ward, “Ibn Rifca
on the Churches and Synagogues of Cairo,” Medieval
Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue,
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 5:1 (1999) pp. 70-84.
S. Ward, “More on the
Destruction Era and Corrections to the Calendar Program,” Jewish Linguistic Studies, 2, (1990), pp. 23‑31.
S. Ward, “A Possible Etymon
for North African Jewish Arabic muhajir
'Jewish convert to Islam’,”Jewish
Linguistic Studies, 2 (1990), pp. 32‑35.
S. Ward, “A fragment from an
unknown work by al‑abarī on the tradition
‘Expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula (and the lands of
Islam):’” Bulletin of The School of
Oriental and African Studies, 53 (1990) pp. 407-420.
S. Ward, “Jewish, Christian
and Muslim Calendar Conversions: Notes and Computer Programs,” in Jewish Language Review 7 (1987) 234‑260.
S.
Ward, “Qur’an,
Chosen People and Holy Land” in Khaleel
Mohammed & Andrew Rippin, edd., Coming to terms with the Qur’an, North
Haledon NJ: Islamic Publications International, 2008, 63-74.
Sharon
Hampel and Seth Ward, “Milton, Selden and Hebraic Sources for the Modernizing
of European Law: The case of Divorce,” in U. E. Beitter, ed., Critical
Essays on Contemporary European Culture and Society, New York: Peter Lang, 2003,
73-85.
S. Ward, “Teach
us to Number our days: The Elusive Epoch in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian
Calendars.” In: Millennialism from the Hebrew Bible to the Present (Studies
in Jewish Civilization Vol. 12) L. Greenspoon and R.A. Simkins, ed. Creighton
University Press, University of Nebraska Press, 2002, 63-90.
S. Ward, “A
Simḥat Torah Practice and the Ephraimite Tradition” in: Revelation
Reason and Faith: Essays in honor of Truman G. Madsen (peer reviewed) Provo: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon
Studies, Brigham Young University, 2002, 607-614.
S. Ward, “A Literature
Survey of Mormon-Jewish Studies,” in Jospe, Madsen, and Ward, edd., Covenant and Chosenness, Madison and
Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2001, 195-211.
S. Ward, “Sepphoris in
Sacred Geography,” in E. Meyers et al., in Galilee,
Confluence of Cultures, Eisenbrauns:
Winona Lake Indiana, 1999, pp. 391-406.
S. Ward, “Dhimmi Women and
Mourning” in Masud, Messick and Powers, ed., Islamic Legal
Interpretation: Muftis and their Fatwas, Harvard University Press,
Cambridge and London, 1996, 87-97.
S. Ward, “Sepphoris in the
Arab Period,” in Sepphoris in Galilee:
Crosscurrents of Culture, Museum Exhibition Catalogue, ed. R. Nagy, C.
Meyers, E. Meyers, Z. Weiss, Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art. 1996,
91-99.
S. Ward, “Taqi al‑Din
al‑Subki on Construction, Continuance and Repair of Churches and
Synagogues in Islamic law” in Brinner and Ricks, ed., Studies in Islamic and Judaic Traditions II, Atlanta, Georgia:
Scholars Press, 1989, pp. 169‑188.
S. Ward, T. Madsen, R. Jospe, ed., Papers from the Conference on Covenant and
Chosenness in Mormonism and Judaism, with an introduction by Seth Ward. (Denver: Center for Judaic Studies, February
1999).
S. Ward, “Converso
Descendants in the U.S. Southwest: A
Report on Research, Resources, and the Changing Search for Identity,” Proceedings of the 1998 Conference of the
European Association for Jewish Studies, ed. Angel Saenz-Badillos. Leiden:
E.J. Brill, 1999, pp. 677-86.
S. Ward, “Sabbath Observance
and Conversion to Islam: A Fatwa by Taqī al‑Dīn al‑Subkī,”
Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress
of Jewish Studies, World Union of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1986. Division
B, Vol. 1, pp. 47‑54.
S.
Ward “Funerary Practices-Jewish” and “Synagogues” in Medieval
Islamic Culture Encyclopedia Routledge--Taylor and Francis, J. Meri and J.
Bacharach, ed. 2006, 1: 269-270;
2:786-787.
S. Ward, “Islam” in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, David
J. Wishart, Editor, Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2004, p. 749.
S. Ward, “Maimonides Family”
and “Islamic-Jewish Relations” in Readers’
Guide to Judaism, Michael Terry, Ed., Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn,
2000, pp. 297-298, 390-91.
S. Ward, “Mali,” in Strayer,
et al., ed. Dictionary of the Middle Ages,
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1987), 8:57‑58; “Poll Tax, Islamic,”
in Dictionary of the Middle Ages
(1988) 10:27; “Usury, Islamic Law,” in Dictionary
of the Middle Ages. (1989) 12:339-340.
S. Ward, Review of: F E Peters, The monotheists:
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conflict and competition, (2 volumes).
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. In: Al-Masaq, ca.
2008. (in press).
S. Ward, Review of Phillip A Cunningham, Norbert J.
Hoffman, S.D.B., and Joseph Sievers, edd., The Catholic Church and the
Jewish People: Recent Reflections from Rome. New York: Fordham University
Press, 2007. Journal of Ecumenical
Studies, in press.
S. Ward, Review of Shari'a: Islamic law in the
contemporary context, ed. by Abbas Amanat and Frank Griffel. Stanford,
2007. Choice 2007-14097.
S. Ward, Review of S. Heilman, Sliding to the Right,
the contest for the future of American Jewish orthodoxy. California, 2006. In Choice, 2006.
S. Ward, Review
of: Jack I. Abecassis, Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices, Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Press (Parallax), 2004. In: South Atlantic Review, Summer 2006,
180-182.
S. Ward, Review of: Adam S Ferziger, Exclusion and
Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the emergence of the modern Jewish
identity. Pennsylvania, 2005. Choice.
S. Ward, Review of
Janet L. Jacobs, Hidden Heritage, the Legacy of the Crypto-Jews, in:
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies - Volume 24,
Number 1, Fall 2005, pp. 155-157.
S. Ward, Review of: Shalom Goldman, God’s
Sacred Tongue: Hebrew and the American Imagination. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2004.Choice.
S. Ward, review of Reuven Firestone, Children of Abraham, An
introduction to Judaism for Muslims, and Khalid Durán and Abdelwahab
Hechiche Children of Abraham, an Introduction to Islam for Jews, New
York: American Jewish Committee, in conjunction with Ktav (Hoboken NJ), 2001. In:
Shofar, 22:3 (2004) 131-135.
S.
Ward, Review of Michael Alpert, Crypto-Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition. In
: Shofar, Summer 2004 (22:4), pp. 167-169.
S.
Ward, Review of Crisis and Memory: The representation of Space in Modern
Levantine Narrative. Ken Seigneurie, ed., Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag,
2003. In: South Atlantic Review (Quarterly
of the South Atlantic MLA) 70 (1) 2005, 201-203.
S. Ward, Review of Daniel Madigan, The Qur’ân’s Self-Image: Writing and
Authority in Islam’s Scripture, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2001. Choice
S. Ward, Review of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol,
tr. by Peter Cole. Princeton, 2001. Choice. September, 2001.
S. Ward, Review of Michael Sells, Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations, White
Cloud Press, 1999. Choice, July 2001, 38-5539.
S. Ward, Review of Milton R. Konvitz, Nine American Jewish Thinkers, New
Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2000. Choice,
March 2001, 38:3859.
S. Ward, Review of Kevin Alan Brook, The Jews of Khazaria. Northvale: Jason Aronson, 1999. Jewish Quarterly Review 91 (2001)
523-525.
S. Ward, review of Farhad Daftary: A Short History of the Ismailis. Princeton:
Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998. Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin 34 (2000) 245-46.
S. Ward, review of Gitlitz
and Davidson, A Drizzle of Honey: The
Lives and Recipes of Spain’s Secret Jews. New York: Saint Martin’s Press,
1999. In The Medieval Review. [on line
journal now maintained by the Medieval Institute, Wastern Michigan University;
formerly published at the University of Michigan, prior to that, Bryn Mawr].
Originally published as: http://dlps4.umdl.umich.edu/t/tmr Date: 00-02-04.
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S. Ward, review of The Glorious Qur’an: Version 2, Par
Excellence Computers, 1998.[CD-Rom]
Choice, 37:4 (Dec. 1999) 37-2115.
S. Ward, Review of Muhammad
Abdel Haleem, Understanding the Qur’an:
Themes and Style. I.B. Tauris, 1999. Choice
37:4 (December 1999) 37-2106.
S.
Ward, Review of C. Adang, Muslim Writers
on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible From Ibn Rabban to Ibn Hazm, EJ. Brill,
Leiden, 1996. In: International Journal of Middle East
Studies 31:2 (1999) 273-275.
S. Ward, Review of J.W. Wright Jr., and Everett K. Rowson, edd. Homoeroticism
in Classical Arabic Literature New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
In South Atlantic Review 64/1 (1999) 173-176.
S. Ward, Review of Lewis
Wirth, The Ghetto. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1997. in History:
Reviews of New Books, 27:3 (1999), 102.
S. Ward, Review of Abraham J. Karp, Jewish continuity in America: Creative
Survival in a Free Society. Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1998.
In: Choice, 1998.
S. Ward, Review of Steven
B. Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism and the
Question of Jewish Identity, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. In History:
Reviews of New Books, Winter 1998, 03612759.
S. Ward, Review of J.
Courbage and P. Fargues, Christians and Jews under Islam London: Tauris,
1997. In History: Revbiws of New Books, Spring 1998: 156-7.
S. Ward, Review of: M.C.
Boys, Jewish-Christian Dialogue: One
Woman’s Experience, Paulist, 1997; Frizzel and Bemporad, The Catholic Catechism on Jews and Judaism, Institute
of Judaeo-Christian Studies, 1996, and Bernardin, A Blessing to each other: Cardinal
Joseph Bernnardin and Jewish-Christian Dialogue. Archdiocese of Chicago,
1996, In: Journal of Ecumenical Studies,
35:3-4 (1998) 516-7.
S. Ward, Review of L.E.
Goodman, Jewish and Islamic Philosophy:
Crosspolinations in the Classic Age. Choice 37:
S.
Ward, Review of David Yeroushalmi, The Judeo-Persian ‘Emrānī’ and His “Book of
Treasure.” Brill, 1996. in: AJS
Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies. 1997.
S. Ward,
Review of Eugene Fisher, Ed., Visions of the Other: Jewish and Christian
Theologians Assess the Dialogue. New York: Paulist, 1994, and M. Perry and F.M.
Schweitzer, Jewish-Christian Encounters over the Centuries: Symbiosis,
Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue, New York: Peter Lang, 1994. In: Journal of
Ecumenical Studies, 34:4, 1997, 604-605.
S.
Ward, Review of, Bat Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam:
From Jihad to Dhimmitude, Tran. Kochan and Littman, Madison NJ: Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press, 1996, in: History: Reviews of New Books,
25:3 1997, 132.
S.
Ward, Review of Barazangi, Zaman, and Afzal, ed., Islamic Identity and the Search for Justice, University Press of
Florida, 1996, in: Choice, 34 (Sept. 1996) 144.
S.
Ward, Review of Harvey E. Goldberg, Editor, Sephardi
and Middle Eastern Jewries: History
and Culture in the Modern Era, Indiana, 1996. In: Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1997.
S.
Ward, Review of Avigdor Levy, The Jews of
the Ottoman Empire, Darwin,
Princeton, 1994. in History: Reviews
of New Books, Hildref,
Washington D.C., Summer 1996, p. 184.
S.
Ward, review of U. Rubin, Eye of the Beholder: The Life of Muhammad
according to Islamic Sources, Darwin, 1995. In: Choice 33 (Jan
1996) 809-90.
S.
Ward, Review of S. Wasserstrom, Between
Muslims and Jews: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam, Princeton, 1995. In: Choice, 33 (Feb. 1996) 966-97.
S.
Ward: Review of: Amikam Elad, Mediaeval
Jerusalem and Islamic Worship. Brill 1995.
In: Choice, 32
(July 1995) 1744.
S.
Ward, Review of Avigdor Levy, The
Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire. Darwin, Princeton, 1992. In: AJS Review: The Journal of the Association
for Jewish Studies 20:1
(1995) 222-25.
S.
Ward, Review of: Zvi Sobel, A Small Place
in Galilee: Religion and Social Change in an Israeli village. Holmes and
Meyer, NY and London, 1993. In: Choice, 32 (Oct. 1994) 305.
S.
Ward, Review of: Philip V. Bohlman, The
Study of Folk Music in the Modern World, Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, 1988. Bulletin of
Middle East and Asian Folklore,
11:3 (1994) pp. 3-4.
S.
Ward, Review of: Mark Cohen, Under
Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle East. Princeton, 1994. In: Choice, 32 (Dec. '94) 616.
S.
Ward, review of: Moshe Gil, A History of
Palestine 634-1099. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Journal of Ecumenical Studies 31 (1994) 92-93.
S.
Ward, review of: F.E. Peters, Muhammad
and the Origins of Islam. State University of New York Press, 1994. In: Choice, 32 (Sept. 1994), 135.
S.
Ward, Review of: W. Eugene March, Israel
and the Politics of Land: A Theological Case Study. Westminster/John Knox,
1989. In: Choice, 32
(Oct. 1994) 304.
S.
Ward, review of: The History of al-Tabari (Ta’rikh
al-rusul wal-muluk): Vol.
XV: The Crisis of the Early Caliphate. The Reign of cUthmān
A.D. 644-656/A.H. 24-35. Translated and annotated by R. Stephen Humphreys,
State University of New York Press, Albany NY 1990. In: Iranian Studies, 27 (1994)
219-220.
S.
Ward, Review of R. Judah ibn Bal’am’s Commentary on Isaiah: The Arabic
original according to MS Firkowich, EBR-arab I 1277, with a Hebrew translation,
notes and introduction. Ramat-Gan: bar Ilan University Press, 1992. In
Hebrew Studies, 35 (1994), 144-146.
S.
Ward, review of: F.E. Peters, A Reader on
Classical Islam, Princeton University Press, 1993. Choice, 31 (July 1994) 1740-41.
S.
Ward, Review of Mustafa Vaziri, The
Emergence of Islam: Prophet, Imamate, and Messianism in Perspective,
Paragon House, 1992. In: Choice,
30 (Jan. 1993) 899.
S.
Ward, Review of Bernard Weiss, The Search
for God’s Law: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf al-Din al-cAmili,
Utah, 1992. In: Choice, 30
(June 1993) 1645.
S.
Ward, Review of Ditmanson, Stepping
Stones to Furthering Jewish Lutheran Relationships, Augsburg Fortress
Press, Minneapolis, 1990, and Feldman, Dual
Destinies: Jewish Encounters with Protestant America, University of
Illinois Press, Chicago 1990. In: Journal
of Ecumenical Studies 29 (1992) 488-89.
S.
Ward, Review of: S.D. Goitein, A
Mediterranean Society, Vol. 5, Berkeley: University of California Press,
1987. In: Journal of Ecumenical
Studies, 27:1 (1990)
742f.
S.
Ward, Review of: Muhammad Ibn Ishaq, The Making of the Last Prophet: A
reconstruction of the earliest biography of Muhammad. Trans. and ann. G. D.
Newby, Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1989. In: Choice, 27 (Feb. 1990) 966.
S.
Ward, Review of: Ronald L. Nettler, Past
Trials and Present Tribulations: A Muslim Fundamentalist's View of the Jews,
(Studies in Antisemitism of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the
Study of Antisemitism, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). New York,
Oxford: Pergamon, 1987. In: Judaica Book News, 20:2 (1990) p. 74.
S.
Ward, Review of: G. D. Newby: A History
of the Jews of Arabia From Ancient Times to their Eclipse under Islam,
Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. In: Judaica Book News, 20:2 (1990) pp.
66-67.
S.
Ward, Review of R. Patai, The Seed of
Abraham: Jews and Arabs in Contact and Conflict. Utah, 1986. In: Jewish Quarterly Review 70 (1990)
430-432.
S. Ward
and Ward, C. K., Review of: Isaac Nathan and Lord Byron, A selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern, Edited with
Introduction and notes by Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass, Tuscaloosa and
London: University of Alabama Press, 1988. In: Judaica Book News 19:2
(1989) p. 69.
S.
Ward, Review of E. Klein, An Etymological
Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, Macmillan, 1989.
In: Choice, 26 (Feb. 1989)
922.
S.
Ward, Review of: M. Sharon, ed., Studies
in Islamic History and Civilization in honor of Professor David Ayalon.
Jerusalem: Cana; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986. In: Middle East Journal 42 (1988) pp. 509‑510.
S.
Ward, Review of: J. Escovits, The Office
of the "Qadi al‑Qudat" in Cairo under the Bahri Mamluks.
(Islamkundiche Untersuchungen, Band 100). Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin, 1984.
In: Middle East Studies Association
Bulletin 21 (1987) 37‑38.
S.
Ward, Review of: Vera Basch Moreen, Iranian
Jewry's Hour of Peril and Heroism: A Study of Babai ibn Luf's Chronicle (1617‑1662), New
York‑Jerusalem: The American Academy for Jewish Research, 1987. In: Judaica Book News 18:1 (1987/5748)
p. 48‑49.
S.
Ward, Review of: Nissim Rejwan, Jews of
Iraq: 3000 Years of History and Culture, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado,
1985. In: Judaica Book News 18:1 (1987/5748) 52.
S.
Ward, Review of: Robert Singerman, Compiler, Jewish Serials of the World: A Research Bibliography of Secondary
Sources, Greenwood Press, New York, Westport and London, 1986. In: Judaica Book News 18:1 (1987/5748) pp. 50‑52.
S. Ward,
Review of Ovey N. Mohammed, Averroes’
Doctrine of Immortality: A Matter of Controversy, Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier
University Press, 1984, and T. Rudavsky, ed. Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence
in Medieval Philosophy: Islamic, Jewish and Christian Perspectives, Dordrecht:
D. Reidel, 1985. In: Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 24:2 1987 318-319.
S.
Ward, Review of: E. Ashtor (Strauss), The
Jews of Muslim Spain, Vol. 3. Tr. Klein and Klein., Phila.: Jewish
Publication Society, 1985. In: Judaica Book News 16/1
(1986) p. 36.
S.
Ward, Review of: Steven Bowman, Jews of
Byzantium 1204‑1453. University of Alabama Press, University of
Alabama, 1985. In: Choice, 23 (March 1986), p. 1122.
S.
Ward, Review of: Amnon Cohen and Gabriel Baer, ed. Egypt and Palestine: A Millenium of Association (868‑1948).
Ben Zvi Institute/Yad Izhak Ben Zvi, Jerusalem; St. Martin's Press, New York.
1984. In: Middle East Studies
Association Bulletin 20, 1986, pp. 69‑70.
S.
Ward, Review of: Bernard Lewis, Semites
and Anti‑Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice. Norton, New
York, 1986. In: Judaica Book News
17:1 (1986/5747) 60‑61.
S.
Ward, Review of: Collette Sirat, A
History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University
Press, 1985. In: Judaica Book News 17:1 (1986/5747) 54‑55.
S.
Ward, Review of: Y.H. Yerushalmi, Zakhor,
Jewish History and Jewish Memory. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1982. In: Judaica Book News 16:2 (1986) 59.
S.
Ward, Review of: Annemarie Schimmel, And
Muhammad is his Messenger, North Carolina University Press, Cambridge,
1984. In: Choice, 23
(December 1985) 619.
S.
Ward, Review of: S. Baron, Social and
Religious History of the Jews. New York: Columbia University Press / Jewish
Publication Society, Vol. 17, 1983. In: Judaica Book News 15:1
(1984) p. 50.
S.
Ward, Review of: N. Golb and O. Pritsak, Khazarian
Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1982. In: Judaica Book News 14:2 (1984) p. 46.
S.
Ward, Review of: M. Laskier, The
"Alliance Israelite Universelle" and the Jewish Communities of
Morocco 1862‑1962. Albany: SUNY Press, 1983. In: Middle East Journal 38 (1984) pp. 537‑8.
S.
Ward, Review of: Aryeh Shmuelevitz, The
Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the Late Fifteenth and the Sixteenth Centuries:
Administrative, Economic, Legal and Social Relations as Reflected in the
Responsa, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. In: Middle East Journal 50 (1986) 650‑651.
S.
Ward, Review of: S. Deshen and W. P. Zenner, Jewish Societies in the Middle East: Community, Culture and Authority.
Washington: University Press of America, 1982. In: Middle East Journal 37 (1983) pp.
295‑96.
S.
Ward, Review of: Y. Sabar, The Folk
Literature of the Kurdistani Jews: An Anthology. (Yale Judaica Series, Vol.
32) New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. In: Judaica Book News 14:1
(1983) pp. 49‑50.
S.
Ward, Review of: E. Barber, The Bene
Israel of India: Images and Reality. Washington: University Press of
America, 1981. In: Judaica Book News 12:2 (1982) pp. 51‑2.
S.
Ward, Review of: D. Kessler, The
Falashas: The Forgotten Jews of Ethiopia. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1982.
In: Judaica Book News
13:1 (1982) pp. 56‑58.
S. Ward, “Talaq [Divorce]” and “Mut’a Marriage,” in
house report for Institute for the Study of Israel in the Middle East, Graduate
School of International Studies, University of Denver.
S. Ward, “Shalom, Shalom, shalom, shalom: Magic and the protection of children. The Magic Incantation Bowl of the Mizel Museum of Judaica” (Denver, Colorado, USA). Appendix (for use in Museum’s Educational programming for children) “An arts and crafts project based on the Magic Bowl.” In house paper for Mizel Museum.
Conferences organized as
Director of the Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies at the University of
Denver were creative productions involving fundraising, managing international
participants, production of local connections, venue management, creative
content, exhibits and cultural-concert performances, all produced and directed
by the Institute Director. Other productions listed here involved similar
efforts, sometimes with a co-chair; conferences which “merely” involved
committee work or program committee chairing are listed under academic service.
1998 “‘Avoda and ‘Ibāda: Worship and Liturgy in Islamic and Judaic
Traditions” Annual Conference, Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies,
University of Denver. Conference Chair.
1998 “Women’s Challenges: Our
lives, Our Worlds” a joint symposium of the Center for Judaic Studies and the
Mountain-Desert region of Hadassah (co-chair).
1998 “Covenant and Chosenness in
Mormonism and Judaism” Joint conference of the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic
Studies and Brigham Young University. University of Denver. Conference chair.
1996-97 “Appropriating and Reappropriating the Past: History and Historiography
in Islamic and Judaic Traditions” Annual Conference, Institute for
Islamic-Judaic Studies, University of Denver. Conference Chair.
1995-96 “Charting the Horizons: Islamic and Judaic Traditions on Contact,
Contrast and Dialogue” Annual Conference, Institute for Islamic-Judaic
Studies, University of Denver. Conference Chair.
1995 “Changing Models of Jewish
Leadership from Ancient Times to the Present” Second Annual Conference, Western Jewish
Studies Association. University of Denver. Conference co-chair.
1995 “Cultural Links Between
Israel and the Western U.S.” First Annual Conference, Center for Israeli Studies,
Government of Israel and Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity. Conference
Chair.
1994 “Women, Families and
Children in Islamic and Judaic Traditions.” Institute for Islamic-Judaic
Studies, University of Denver. Conference Chair.
1993 “Muslims and Jews in North
America.” Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies, University of Denver.
Conference Chair.
5 programs of appr. 1 hour
each web-broadcast and published to podcast format. Annunciation Radio is a
semi-independent project associated with the Archdiocese of Denver (which also
services Wyoming). It currently is internet-broadcast while awaiting radio frequency
and broadcast license. The programs have had a daily internet broadcast slot
for extended periods of time in 2006-07.
2008 Summer Travel course award for 2009. (Funding for faculty honorarium and
expenses). University of Wyoming Summer and special programs.
2008 Brandeis Scusterman Summer Institute For Israel
Studies. Fellowship. (This fellowship is organized along the same lines as
the NEH summer seminars).
2008. Wyoming Council for the Humanities: Humanities
Forum presenter for 2008. (Awarded 2007)
2007. Wyoming Council for the Humanities: Humanities
Forum presenter for 2007. (Awarded 2006)
2006. Wyoming Council for the Humanities: Humanities
Forum presenter for 2006. (Awarded 2005)
2006. Online course redevelopment grants (awarded
2006).
2005. Wyoming Council for the Humanities: Humanities
Forum presenter for 2005 (Awarded 2004)
Rejected Proposals at University of Wyoming
[Rejected UW grant proposals: Fa 2005: Summer travel course for Su 2006, Sp 2006: Travel to China. Sp: Summer travel course for Su 2007. International Studies, University of Wyoming.]
Memberships in professional societies
American Academy of Religion
American Folklore Society
(Jewish Folklore division)
American Oriental Society
Association for Jewish
Studies
European Association for
Jewish Studies
Israel Historical Society
Middle East Mediaevalists
Middle East Studies
Association
Society for the Study of
Mediaeval Judaeo‑Arabic Culture
Society for Crypto-Judaic
Studies
Western Jewish Studies
Association
Offices in professional
societies
Board Member: WJSA
Conference Chair or Program Chair:
Program Chair, Society for Crypto Judaic Studies 2007
Conference Program Committee
Program Committee, Society for Crypto Jewish Studies,
2004-06
Committees
2005-06 Sephardic/Mizrahi
Holocaust Project Committee 2005-06: Executive Committee planning meetings
.WJSA, March 2005; Jerusalem Israel Aug 3 2005.
Review/editorial
boards
1995-2001
Shofar
Manuscript Refereeing and evaluation
Evaluator for Grants and
Projects:
Translation
project proposal- NEH (November 1999).
Confidential evaluator for
nomination for MacArthur Fellowship John and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
External Evaluator for Tenure
and Promotion:
Bar Ilan University
Universiti Kebansaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Temple University
Queens College
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles Campus
Pre-publication Reader and
Evaluator:
Books
Cambridge University Press,
Vivian Mann, Jews on Art;
SUNY Press: Reuven
Firestone, The Origin of Holy War in the
Religious Civilization of Islam;
Columbia University Press: Seth Kunin, "Juggling Identities: Identity and authenticity
among the Crypto-Jews of the American Southwest"
Stan Hordes, To the Ends of the Earth.
Center for Judaic Studies:
Bruno Saura, La Société Tahitienne au
miroir d’Israël (French manuscript on Jews and Israel in Polynesia).
Articles
Islamic Law and Society Journal
International Journal of
Sephardic Studies
2007, “Reacting to History: The Order of Prayers for
Yom Ha-Atzmaut and Related Commemorations” Association for Jewish Studies,
Annual Conference, Toronto.
2007, “Program Chair’s
Report,”, Albuquerque NM, 17th Annual Conference Society for
Crypto-Jewish Studies, Conference Program Chair, Albuquerque NM
2007, “The relevance of Abraham Joshua Heschel to contemporary Jewish-Muslim and Western-Islamic dialogue,” University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
2007, “Religion and the
Ethics of Social Justice (With special emphasis on Islam and Judaism)” Workshop
session, Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
(Not presented due to snow).
2006, “The Future of US-Muslim World Relations,”
Panelist, Arts and Sciences Student Council, MSA, Political Science Dept. at
al., Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK.
2006, “Alleles have no religion” HaLapid Panel
on Ethical Issues, Society for Crypto-Jewish Studies. El Paso.
2006, “Hidden and Emerging African and
African-American Judaism,” Presentations
by J. Romer and G. Logan, University of Colorado. Society for Crypto-Jewish
Studies. Session Chair, Organizer, and Commentator, El Paso.
2006, “DNA and Genetic Studies,” Session
Chair and commentator, Society for
Crypto-Jewish Studies. El Paso.
2006 “Crypto Judaism in the US Southwest” and “Pathways to Islamist Extremism” at Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. Lecturer and workshop presenter. Copper Mountain, Colorado.
2006, “Liberal traditions and choice in the Middle
East: Elections and the Peace Process in the Arabic and Islamic World” Brown
University, Open Society Initiative Mentor, Organized, mentored and presented
academic lecture in session at OSI conference, Providence.
2006, “Social Justice in Judaism and Islam.” Shepard
Symposium. Workshop Session organizer and presenter, together with Dr. Leila
Kiknadze. Laramie.
2006, “Arabs and the Holocaust,”
Western Jewish Studies Association. Conference paper. California State University at Long Beach.
Long Beach CA.
2006, “The Debate over
Crypto-Jews in the American Southwest” Invited Lecture, at: “My Heart Is In The
East And I In The Uttermost West:” Colloquium On Sephardic Culture, California
State University at Long Beach. Long Beach, CA.
2005, מקורות
הרמב”ם על עבודת
כוכבים
ומזלות: כתאב
אלפלאחה
אלנבאטיה אבן
אלכלבי
ואחרים “Maimonides’
Sources on “worship of stars and constellations:” Kitāb
al-Falāha al-Nabātiyya, Ibn al-Kalbī and
others” [Hebrew]. Maimonides
and his World: The 12th international meeting of the Society for the
Study of Judaeo Arabic Culture in the Middle Ages.] Presenter. Ben Tzvi
Institute and University of Haifa, Jerusalem and Haifa.
2005, “The Sacred Frontier: Parallels between the Bede’s account of
Caedmon and Muhammad’s first revelation, and other issues of breaking language
borders in the transmission of the sacred.” RMMRA. Jackson
2005 “Qur’an commentaries on Judaism and Israel:
Ahmadi and the Nation of Islam.” Western Jewish Studies Association, (Joint
conference with AAR Western/SBL Pacific Coast/ WECSOR). Research Lecture
Presenter. Arizona State University,
Tempe AZ.
2005 Jews and Judaism in the Qur’an (Panel W3).
Western Jewish Studies Association, (Joint conference with AAR Western/SBL
Pacific Coast/ WECSOR). Panel Organizer. Arizona State University, Tempe AZ.
2004, “Israel in the Qur’an” (Invited lecture),
Lawrence Baron Fund Symposium on Islamic Jewish Syncretism and Separatism,
Western Association of Jewish Studies, San Diego.
2004, Faculty Development
Program Spring Conference, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundations Network, New
School University, New York.
2004, “History and Theology of early modern Sephardim,” Session Chair,
Western Jewish Studies Association Annual Meeting.
2004, Genetics, Breast
Cancer, Jewish Demography and Crypto-Judaism; Organized session, with
presentations by Seth Ward (Demography) , Sharon Graw (Genetics), and Ruth
Oratz MD (Medicine). Annual meeting of
the Society for Crypto-Jewish Studies, Portland.
2004, “Israel in the
Qur’an” Lawrence Baron Fund Symposium (Invited lecture) on Islamic Jewish
Syncretism and Separatism, Western Association of Jewish Studies.
2003 “Modern Muslim Religious Discourse on the State of
Israel: Sayyid Qutb, Shaykh Palazzi and Usama bin Ladin as interpreters of
Islamic Sources,” Annual Conference: People and Politics/ , , Association for
Israel Studies, San Diego.
2003, Discussant: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on
Identity and Group Politics: Jewish and Muslim Voices, Annual Conference:
People and Politics, Association for Israel Studies, San Diego
2003, Traditions of Abraham:
Martyrdom in Judaism and Islam, Annual Conference: 24th Husain Day Annual
Convention on Peace & Understanding through Religions, Muslim Foundation,
Inc. Queens NY.
2003
“Quran and the State of Israel in Usama, Palazzi and Sayyid Qutb” Association
for Israel Studies, San Diego.
2003,
Ben-Tzion Netanyahu: Zionism, Inquisition
and Jewish Identity, Society for Crypto-Jewish Studies. Presenter and UW
Session organizer, San Antonio.
2002, Seth Ward, “Maimonides
on Idolatry,” Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles.
2002, Seth Ward, “Telling Our
Story: The Multiple Narratives of the Crypto Jews in recent research and
discourse,” Hispanic Theological Initiative. Brite Theological Seminary, TCU,
Ft. Worth, Texas.
2002, Seth Ward, “Judaism and
Qur’an on the Holy Land” Promised (32nd Annual Medieval Workshop),
University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
2002, Seth Ward, “Genetics and Jewish Demography” Society
for Crypto-Jewish Studies, San Diego.
2002, Seth Ward, “Jewish Tradition as a resource for
Landsape Improvement and environmental awareness: The Rise of Tu Bishevat as a “Jewish
Arbor and Ecology Day,” American Society for Environmental History, Denver.
2001,
Sharon Hampel and Seth Ward, “Milton and Selden on Jewish Divorce” Annual
Meeting, Rocky Mountain MLA, Boulder.
2001,
S. Ward and Arlene Golchinsky, “Finding Aids for Crypto-Jewish Resources,”
Society for Crypto-Jewish Studies, Pueblo.
2001, “Who is not a Jew?” Medieval Orthodoxies Conference, Medieval
Institute, Notre Dame, South Bend.
2001, “Feast, Fast and Ramadan” Association for
Comparative Literature Studies, Boulder, Colorado.
2000, “Religion in a
Globalizing World: Unifying or Dividing? The Case of Judaism and Islam in the
Middle East” Globalization vs. Society in
the New Millennium, United States Air Force Academy and Colorado Council of
International Organizations, Colorado Springs.
2000, “Jewish
Muslim Dialogues in the U.S.” Islam
Judaism and the Political Role of Religions in the Middle East. Austrian
Institute for International Affairs, Vienna, Austria.
2000, “Heretics
or Daughters of Israel: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castille--a review of a
new book by Renee Levine Melamed.” Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies,
Albuquerque, August 2000.
1999, “Exploring Crypto-Jewish Identity: Literary
Works by Crypto-Jews of the American Southwest. Association for Jewish Studies. Chicago.
1999, “The Elusive Epoch: Jewish Perspectives on the
Millenium and Other Calendrical Conundrums.” Klutznick Symposium, Creighton. Omaha.
1999, “Covenant and Chosenness: Interchanges between
Judaism and Islam.” Western &
Midwestern Jewish Studies Associations, Joint Conference, Colorado College,
Colorado Springs.
1999, Jonathan Seidel and Seth Ward, “Some Magical
Texts from the Cairo Geniza.” Sociey for
Judaeo-Arabic Studies, Emory, Atlanta 1999.
1999, “Crypto-Jews of the U.S. Southwest: Genealogy,
Evidence, and Identity in Videotaped Testimonies.” Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, Los Angeles.
1999, “Profiles of Converso Descendants in the
Southwestern U.S.: Manito, Sephardic and Jewish Identities among the
Crypto-Jews of Contemporary New Mexico and Southern Colorado.” 11th
British Conference of Judaeo-Spanish Studies. London, England.
1999, “The Presentation of Jesus: Jewish Perspectives
on Luke 2:22f.” Rocky Mountain Regional
Meeting, American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical Studies. Colorado
Springs, April 1999.
1999, “Converso Descendants in the American Southwest:
Crypto-Jewish traditions and Sephardic Identity” Western Association for Jewish Studies. Seattle, Washington.
1998, “Covenant and Chosenness in Disputation and
Dialogue: Jewish Themes in Mediaeval and Modern Times.” Covenant, and
Chosenness in Mormonism and Judaism, University of Denver, Denver.
1998, “Crypto-Jewish Women in the American Southwest,”
Women’s Challenges: Our Lives, Our Worlds, University of Denver, Denver.
1998, “Converso Descendants in the U.S. Southwest: A Report on Research, Resources, and
the Changing Search for Identity” European Association for Jewish
Studies, Toledo, Spain.
1997, “Sepphoris in Sacred Geography.” Sepphoris in
Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture, University of North Carolina/ North Carolina
Museum of Art, Raleigh and Durham.
1997, “Resources for the study of Crypto-Judiasm in
the U.S. Southwest” Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, Denver.
1996, “Comments on Papers on Islam” Society of
Biblical Literature/ American Association of Religion Regional Conference
Denver.
1994, “Muammad says: 'You are only a Jew from the Jews of Sepphoris'”
Association for Jewish Studies, Boston.
1993, “The Jizya in Muslim and Jewish sources”
Tradition and Change in Mediaeval Judaeo-Arabic Culture, International
Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies. Bar-Ilan, Ramat Gan,
Israel (In Hebrew).
1993, “Justifying the Jizya” International Congress of
North African and Asian Studies, Hong Kong.
1992, “The Jews as Chosen People: Perspectives from
Islamic Sources.” The Jews of Mediaeval Islam: Community, Society, and Identity,
University of London, London, England.
1992, “Polemical Perspectives on the Jews as Chosen
People in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.” Religion in the Age of Exploration:
The Case of Spain and New Spain, Annual Klutznick Conference Creighton
University, Omaha.
1991, “A Trust Fund as an impediment to Jewish
Apostasy.” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston.
1990, “Must Dhimmi Women Observe the Period of
Mourning? A Fatwa of Taqi al‑Din al‑Subki,” Conference on The
Making of a Fatwa, Social Science Research Council, Granada.
1989, “The convert and the Mufti: problems in
conversion according to late mediaeval fatwa literature.” (In Hebrew.)
Conversion and Forced Conversion of Jews in Islamic Lands, Ben Zvi Institute
for the Study of Jewish Communities of the East, Jerusalem.
1988 , “Social Isolation and Legal Integration of
Dhimmis.” Ashtor Memorial Conference, Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish
Communities of the East, Jerusalem. (in Hebrew).
1987 , “Mourning and the dhimmi woman.” Conference on
A Member of another Religion in Religious Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
and University of Haifa, Jerusalem and Haifa.
1987, “Continuity and Change in the position of Jews
and other dhimmis in the fatwa literature.” Congress on Tradition and Modernity
in Sephardic Jewries and Jewry under Islam, University of Haifa, Haifa.
1987, “Intermarriage and conversion to Islam in the
Geniza and Islamic Fatwa literature.” 3rd International Conference of the
Society for Judaeo‑Arabic Studies, Cambridge, England.
1987, “The Social and Legal Status of Jews and
Christians in Muslim Lands” (Workshop) and “Non‑Muslim minorities,”
(Panel on Muslims as Minorities/ Muslims as Majorities). Islam and the struggle
for Justice, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
1987, “Islamic Jurists on Jews in Spain and the
Maghreb.” Assoc. for Jewish Studies, Annual Meeting, Boston.
1986 , “Jews and Christians in Islamic Responsa.”
American Research Center in Egypt, Annual Meeting, Washington.
1985 , “The transmission of the Pact of Umar.”
American Oriental Society, Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1985, “Ibn al‑Rif‘a on Cairene Synagogues and
Churches.” American Research Center in Egypt, Annual Meeting, New York.
1985, “Editing and Translating Traditional Texts:
Texts in Islamic Religious Law.” International Interdisciplinary Conference of
the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York.
1985, “Sabbath Observance and Conversion to Islam: A
Fatwa by Taqi al‑Din al‑Subki.” World Congress for Jewish Studies,
Jerusalem.
1984 , “Taqi al‑Din al‑Subki on
Construction, Continuance and Repair of Synagogues and Churches.” Third
International Conference, Institute for Islamic‑Judaic Studies, Denver,
Colorado.
1984, “Jewish Dhimma Contracts.” Assoc. for Jewish
Studies, Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass.
COMMITTEES
University
Faculty Advisor, University
of Wyoming Hillel Foundation. 2003-present
As a faculty advisor,
involvement in committees organized by ASUW, RSOs, Multicultural Resource
Center etc.
Campus
Religious Leaders of the University of Wyoming, 2007-present.
Tentative
name; involved in steering committee meetings and determination of goals and
purposes.
Department Committees
Religious Studies Guest
Lecture committee (developed lecturer for Feb. 2006) and Mormon studies
committee 2005-present
Religious Studies Major, 2007-present
STUDENT ADVISING/GRADUATE SUPERVISION
List all undergraduate, graduate,
postdoctoral students, and research associates who you have supervised during
the last five years.
Graduate Degrees Completed Under Your Supervision
(past 5 years):
Spanish: Angelica Meacham 2007 MA Committee Member
Name,
Year, (MS, MA, PhD)
English: Kerry Luck, 2004. Advisor for part of
English MA examinations
Prior to 2003: Ph.D. committees at Iliff, University
of Denver; MA committees at DU, Iliff, and Haifa.
POSTDOCTORAL
STUDENTS/RESEARCH ASSOCIATES:
Student
Research or creative endeavors under your supervision.
2005. Jennifer Lavanchy: “History of Jerusalem.” Lecture. University of Wyoming, Laramie
2005. Jennifer Lavanchy: “Convivencia in Spain” Lecture. University of Wyoming, Laramie
Faculty Research under your
supervision
Leila Kiknadze, Ph.D., of Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia, was a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Open Society Initiative of the Soros Foundation, who visited the UW campus Spring terms 2004, 2005, and 2006. Research by Leila Kiknadze under supervision of Seth Ward, were presented as lectures:
2006. Leila Kiknadze. Jews of Georgia. Lecture, Western Jewish Studies Association Annual Meeting, California State University at Long Beach, California
2006. Leila Kiknadze and Seth Ward, Liberal traditions and choice in the Middle East: Elections and the Peace Process in the Arabic and Islamic World. Open Society Initiative Conference, Providence RI.
2006. Leila Kiknadze. Islamic Monotheism. Lecture miniseries (four sessions, including interactive teaching), University of Wyoming, Laramie. Under direction of Mentor, Dr. Seth Ward, Kiknadze developed strategies for interactive student participation.
2006. Leila Kiknadze. “Social Justice in Islam; including the works of Sayyid Qutb.” Panel presentation with Seth Ward, Shepard Symposium.
2005. Leila Kiknadze. University of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia; OSI Faculty Fellow at the University of Wyoming. Sayyid Qutb. Lecture. University of Wyoming, Laramie.
2005. Leila Kiknadze. Jahiliyya and Hakimiyya in the work of Sayyid Qutb. Lecture, University of Wyoming, Laramie
2005. Leila Kiknadze. The Qur’an and Jihad and Jahiliyya: The Teachings of Said Qutb
2005 Leila Kiknadze. Jews of Georgia. Lecture. University of Wyoming Laramie
2005. Leila Kiknadze. Jews of Georgia. Lecture. University of Colorado, Boulder
2005. Leila Kiknadze. On Research and Publications. Lecture. OSI annual Conference. George Mason University
Grant Development by Leila Kiknadze (Spring 2006, 2005).
2006. HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET)—Continued plans for December application.
OTHER ACTIVITIES/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Yang Jun, Shanghai University, Spring 2006.
Leila Kiknadze: see above
Off-campus/non-credit
courses:
UW Community Service Education
2007, Basic Judaism, UW Community Service Education,
four session series.
2007, “Exploding Myths: Islam’s relationship with
moderation, fundamentalism and terror,” UW Community Service Education, one
session. (cancelled).
2007, “An Introduction to Kabbalah,” UW Community
Service Education: one session.
The Shepard Symposium is also run by the CSE division;
workshops prepared for this Symposium are reported elsewhere in this document.
National
2003, Arabic Ulpan: Arabic for Jewish Educators, Pre-CAJE
Mini Course: 15 hours.
Ohio State University, Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education, The
Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2002, Arabic Ulpan: Arabic for Jewish Educators, Pre-CAJE
Mini Course: 15 hours.
Ohio State University, Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education,
Trinity University, San Antonio.
Shepard Symposium: See above.
Special
service to the state/community
2007, “Moses, Jesus and Muhammad,” St Thomas Retreat
Center, Cody.
2007, “Moses, Jesus and Muhammad,” Fremont County Library,
Riverton.
2007, “Moses, Jesus and Muhammad,” Teton County Library,
Jackson.
2007, “Palestinians and Israelis Between Fences,” Sublette
County Library, Pinedale.
2007, “Palestinians and Israelis Between Fences,” Sublette
County Library, Big Piney.
2007, “Moses, Jesus and Muhammad,” First Wyoming
Presbyterian, Torrington
2007, “Democracy and Religion in the Middle East,” EWC,
Torrington
2007, “Democracy and Religion in the Middle East,” Fremont
County Library, Dubois
2007, “Moses, Jesus and Muhammad,” Sheridan College, Sheridan
2007, “Democracy and Religion in the Middle East,” Hitching
Post, Cheyenne
2007, “Moses, Jesus and Muhammad,” “Democracy and
Religion in the Middle East,” and
“Palestinians and Israelis Between Fences,” St.
Matthews, Laramie.
2006, “Introduction to Islam for the Equality State,”Star
Valley Historical Society, Afton
2006, “Introduction to Islam for the Equality State,” NWC,
Powell
2005, “Introduction to Islam for the Equality State,” Teton
County Library, Jackson
2005, “Introduction to Islam for the Equality State,” CWC,
Riverton
2005, “Introduction to Islam for the Equality State,” CWC
Extension/Fremont County Library, Dubois
2005, “Pathways to Islamic Extremism,” Christ Church, Cody
2005, “Introduction to Islam for the Equality State,” Sheridan
College, Sheridan
2005, “Introduction to Islam for the Equality State,” UW
American Heritage Center, Laramie
2005, “Introduction to Islam for the Equality State,” Mt.
Sinai, Cheyenne
Laramie Elementary students
2004, S. Ward. “Turkey.”
4th grade geography club. Children’s Museum, Laramie.
2007, Ba-Makom asher
yivhar: Jerusalem in Deuteronomy and Islamic texts, Kesher Israel
Synagogue, Washington DC.
2006 Panel Presentation on
the Holocaust and the Sephardim, Kahal Jacob Synagogue, One of three panel
presenters, Los Angeles, CA.
2003, Scholar in Residence, Kesher Israel Synagogue, Washington DC. (Lectures on
Maimonides, Crypto Jews, and Numbers.
See
also, elsewhere in this document:
Conferences:
Shepard Symposium (2006, 2007)
Off
Campus/non-credit courses: Community Enrichment Programs, 2007.
2007,
S. Ward and Ahmad Jarrah, Discussion moderated by Garth Massey, Situation in
Israel and Palestine. Human Geography Class-Guest Presentation.
2007,
S. Ward, Zionism in the 19th Century. Guest Presentation to Modern
Middle East class, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
2007,
S. Ward and Ahmad Jarrah, Panel Discussion on Palestine and Israel, Geography
Club, Gamma Theta Upsilon Honor Society / Geography Week. University of Wyoming,
Laramie.
2007, S. Ward. Lunch Time Seminar: Christian and Muslim Responses to the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Week, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
2006 “Franco and the Jews” Guest Professor and film
screening. UW College of Arts and
Sciences; España-Cooperation Cultural Exterior; Instituto Cervantes: Spanish
3200 & 4900-02: Spanish Culture and
Civilization: Spain under Franco. Laramie.
2006, “Approaching the
Holocaust in the Islamic World,” UW Hillel Holocaust Remembrance Week, University
of Wyoming, Laramie.
2005 Holocaust Panel. “11 Million Victims: Hear their
Stories,” Panel presenter. UW Hillel. Laramie.
2005, “Celebrate 350.” University of Wyoming American
Heritage Center. Session organizer. Laramie
2005, “Antisemitism” University of Wyoming Hillel
Holocaust Remembrance Week. Panel Presenter. University of Wyoming, Laramie
2005. Iraq Panel. University of Wyoming Muslim
Students Organization. Panelist. University of Wyoming, Laramie.
2005, “Maimonides and Monotheism in an age of Reason” Maimonides:
Guiding the Perplexed in our own Age of Reason, UW Hillel, Laramie Jewish
Community Center, and LDS Institute of Religion. University of Wyoming,
Laramie.
2004. “Why does it matter? Conflict in the Middle
East,” Peer Mediation Center, University of Wyoming. Washakie Center, Laramie.
2004. Seder Tu Bishevat. UW Hillel, University of
Wyoming, Laramie.
2004 جمهورية
العراق: A Panel on the Iraqi Elections—The Road Map to
Democracy? Panelist. ASUW/MSA.
2004 “Religions and
Environmentalism” Panelist. MSA. University of Wyoming, Laramie.
2004 “Middle East: Contemporary
Issues and their Impact on Spain.” Guest Lecturer, In: Spain on Film:
Contemporary Language and Social Issues. Presentation included segments of
three films on Israeli-Palestinian issues, including Palestine is still the
issue.
2003. The Last Marranos
Presentation and Discussion of the Converso Conflict. In “Spain in Images: A
Filmic History” University of Wyoming, Laramie.
2003. Iraq Revisited—Operation
Iraqi Freedom: Where do we stand now? ASUW, International Studies Program,
& MSA. University of Wyoming, Laramie.
2003. “Iraq: What do you think?”
Hill Hall Lobby, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
2003. “Holocaust in the Sephardic
World” The Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture. UW Hillel and LJCC. University of
Wyoming, Laramie.
2007, The teachings and
Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel on the centenary of his birth (series-five
lectures), East Denver Orthodox Synagogue, East Denver Orthodox Synagogue
(Note: Ward offered a weekly series since Jun ’06), Denver CO.
2007, Introduction to Hebrew
Bible: Written and Oral, John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization campus,
Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary,
Denver Co (Three session series).
2007, Introduction to
Kabbalah, Teton County Library, Jackson Hole Jewish Community, Jackson, WY.
2007, Ba-Makom asher
yivhar: (“In the place which He shall choose”): Jerusalem in Deuteronomy
and Islamic texts, East Denver Orthodox Synagogue, East Denver Orthodox
Synagogue, Denver CO.
2007, The History, Values and
Traditions of Islam: Boulder JCC, Boulder JCC, (Four session series) Boulder
CO.
2007, “The Complexity of
Islamic Extremism,” Anti-Defamation League Lunchtime Seminar, Denver CO.
2007, “The Holocaust: Perspectives from the Middle
East and North Africa” 23rd Annual Holocaust Awareness Week, University
of Colorado, Boulder.
2006. Co-opting Abraham: Narratives about Abraham
outside of Genesis, in Torah, Targum, Apocrypha, NT, Qur’an, and the Al-Falaha
al-Nabatiya Series: East Denver Orthodox Synagogue.
2006. “Muslim-Jewish Relations.” Summer Lecture Series
at EDOS. Lecturer and presenter: 5 50 minute sessions over 5 weeks. Denver.
2006 “The Arab World and the Holocaust.” University of
Colorado Hillel. Lecture. Boulder. (This lecture was first given at UW)
2006 “The Arab
World and the Holocaust.” Colorado State University Hillel. Lecturer. Ft.
Collins. (Joint event with UW;
Students from UW attended this lecture).
2005. “Peace in The Jewish Tradition” United Campus
Ministries. Presenter. Boulder.
2005 “The
Holocaust in the Middle East and North Africa.” University of Colorado
Holocaust Awareness Week Committee. Research Lecture Presenter. University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO.
2005. “Why Study the Holocaust.” University of
Colorado Holocaust Awareness Week Committee. Panel Presenter. University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO.
2005 “Leonard
Bernstein and the Hebrew tradition.” Pre-concert Lecturer. Colorado Hebrew
Chorale and Boulder Chorale. Denver. Repeated in Boulder.
2005 “Luther and the Jews.” Lutheran Lay School of
Theology. Lecture/Workshop, Denver.
2005 “Israel and the Palestinians: An Update after the
Gaza withdrawal.” Lecturer. LDS Institute of Religion. Laramie.
2005 Interfaith Dialogue on Gloablization and
Religion. Bahá’i Student Association. Coal Creek, Laramie.
2005, “Israel and the Middle East.” World Religions
Class. East High School. Denver.
2005. “The Ninth Day: A discussion of the film
about the Priest-Block at Dachau, the Catholic Church and the Holocaust.”
Annunciation Radio. Chair and Presenter. Denver.
2005,”The Arab-Israeli conflict: A historian’s
perspective on the continuing crisis.” Boulder Senior Center. Boulder
2005, “Islamic History and Healing.” St. Vincent
Healthcare. Lecturer. Billings.
2005, “How religion as an
academic subject is taught to university students: an appreciation of the
beliefs and values of other faiths and the connections between them.” Religion in America, A Project for
Iraq United States, Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership
Program. Lecture and Workshop Presenter, Denver.
2004, S. Ward, “Islam: Tradition” Genesis Presbyterian
Church (first session in four hour mini course, Jan 4-25 2004),
2004, S. Ward, “Islam: Koran and Worship” Genesis
Presbyterian Church (second session in four hour mini course, Jan 4-25 2004),
2004, S. Ward, “Islam: Attitudes towards Christians and
Jews,” Genesis Presbyterian Church (third session in four hour mini course, Jan
4-25 2004).
2004, S. Ward, “Islam: Contemporary issues” Genesis
Presbyterian Church (final session in four hour mini course, Jan 4-25 2004).
2004, S. Ward. “Teaching Islam: Concepts and resources”
(Enrichment seminar for in the Public School Social Studies Curriculum
Development): Thompson Valley HS, Loveland School District, Loveland.
2004, S. Ward. “Crypto-Judaism in Santa Fe,” Rocky
Mountain Hebrew Academy, Denver.
2004, S. Ward “Israel Independence Day: Status of Israel
and an update on the BYU-Jerusalem Center” LDS Institute of Religion, Laramie
2003, The Jewish Covenant of the Land of Israel: The
Biblical Motif, DU Classroom Guest Lecture, ISIME, Denver.
2003, History and Culture Count: The Jews of Eastern
Europe as a background for Fiddler on the Roof, Guest Lecture: High School
Drama Class, Mizel Museum of Judaica, Thornton
2003, Judaism, Church Education Series, Evergreen
Episcopalian Church, Evergreen
2003, Issues in the Middle East (Iraq, Terror, Israel),
Church Education Series, LDS Institute of Religion, Laramie
2003, Responses to Modernity: Modernity and Judaism,
Church Education Series, 7th Ave/ Methodist Church, Denver
2003, Three Movements in Western Judaism, Russian Jewish
History Course , AJSH Russian Community , Denver
2003, Responses to Modernity: Islam, Church Education
Series, 7th Ave/ Methodist Church, Denver
2003, Peace and Justice in the light of Religions: Panel
Discussion, An Evening of Reflection on Islamic Values, Bridges to the
Future/DU and CSU, Denver
2003, A Message from Scriptures, Annual Meeting, AJSH,
Denver.
2003, Sacred Art and Text in the Middle East, Middle East
Series, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver
2003, Infancy and Last Supper of Jesus: Jewish
Perspectives, Melton Minicourse, Melton School, Colorado Agency for Jewish
Education, Denver
2003, S. Ward. “Islam: the
Founder”. Front Range Christian Academy, Littleton.
2003, S. Ward. “Judaism and
Islam.” Castle Rock Schools
2003, Teaching Religion in America” Teaching Islam and
Islamic Students in the US West., at DU, International Institute of Education ,
Denver
2003, “How did the Bible Come to Be?” LDS Institute, LDS
Institute of Religion, Laramie
2002, Hebrew and Arabic
Letters in Artistry, Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, Gallery Talk.
Arvada.
2008. Teton County Library/
Wyoming Global Leadership Exchange (Int’l Institute of Education provider for
Wyoming). Consulting on Islamic presentations in Jackson, WY; interview with
Amina Wadud.
2008. Kevin Fleming, Ph.D. Islamic
practices for his upcoming work with Jordanian and UAE clients.
2007. Restructuring FCPEI (Faith
Community Professional Education Initiative) for rabbinic training. Denver DA’s Office. Finegan Associates. This
initiative developed a curriculum at Denver Seminary. Contract is to explore
amending the curriculum for potential use in Rabbinic seminaries and possibly
for Muslims or liberal Christian denominations.
2007. Corinne Brown. Review of manuscript for novel on
Crypto-Jews.
2007. Joseph Tovares <joseph_tovares@wgbh.org> Review
of Proposal for “Intertwined” for WGBH docu-drama/ Script.
2007 and previously. Shaul Gabbay, Director, Institute
for the Study of Israel in the Middle East. Consulting on matters of Islamic
law (talaq, mut’a, etc.).
2003. Grant B Smith, Esq., of
Dennis Corry Porter & Smith . Consulting on Islamic law and practice.
1998 Jill Gallet, Asst.
Attorney General of Colorado for Religious Civil Rights. Prepared expert
testimony in case of employee fired for eating traditional holiday cake with
poppy seed filling.
1991- Non-Profit Counseling for organization,
grants, and non-profit status. (Among clients: Keshet of the Rockies: won
state, local and Federal non-profit status (including 501(c)(3) ) and
approximately $30,000 in funding.
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[2] Sabbatical replacement for Fred Denny
[3] Registration minimum not achieved; no courses taught
[4] Application made for recognition as Women’s Studies Faculty prior to first course taught in program. The other disciplines listed had letters of appointment and line item or financial significance.
[5] This list is Spring 2003 through Summer 2008. Previous courses taught available on request.
[6] From Fall 2006 through Dec. 2007, enrollment figures are uniformly taken from rosters in WyoWeb, aggregated for cross-listed courses. Waitlist rosters such as Reli/hist 2320 for Fall2006 are ignored. According to the Registrar’s Office, the change to Banner meant that access to similar data for previous years is no longer possible. Registration for courses previous to Fall2006 are based on class lists, grade-sheets, ecampus/ecompanion or other records; each with differences in registration number calculation methods; no single standard can be adopted.