Honors And Fellowships

Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Harnosands (Sweden) Folkhogskola, 31 Jan.99 - 7 Feb.99. Bethlehem University Internal Research Grant, 1997-1998. Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Law /Political Science, University of Reims (Champagne), France, May 1997. MED-Campus Program. Ten-year Service Award 1985-1995, Al-Liqa quarterly review Editorial Board, Al-Liqa' Center, Jerusalem. Visiting Scholar, Celtic Studies and Irish Folklore Faculty, University College Dublin, Sponsored by the Irish Friends of Bethlehem University to study the Irish oral archives, January 1994. Faculty research grant, Bethlehem University, 1988 - 1989. Dissertation grant, University of Michigan, 1980 - 1981. Teaching Fellow, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 1979 - 1981, 1982 - 1983. Near Eastern Studies, Summer Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1979. United States Navy Achievement Medal, 1977. Near East Dept fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1968 - 1969. Wabash, Indiana Rotary Club Exchange Student (1962-1963); and scholarship recipient, 1963-1965.  Key to the City of Wabash from the late Mayor J. Robert Mitten (1963).