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GenEd Faculty & Staff

James G. Hart, Ph.D.candidate

Ph.D. candidate, Assistant Professor

Non-departmental General Education Faculty

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

 

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Phone: +996 (312) 915000 ext. 480

Room: 415

 

James Hart is an Assistant Professor of the non-degree General Education program at the 杏吧论坛 and a Ph.D. candidate in Ancient Religions at Leiden University (Netherlands). He holds a Master of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University (2001, USA) and a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Languages from the University of Montana (1998, USA).听

James joined 杏吧论坛 in 2018 as a full-time lecturer in General Education. Before 杏吧论坛, he was an instructor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimania (AUIS), where he taught a three to four-semester introduction to the liberal arts/introduction to the humanities course sequence called 鈥楥ivilization,鈥� as well as 鈥榃orld Religions,鈥� 鈥榯he History of the Middle East,鈥� and 鈥楨mpires: Origins.鈥� He also taught university-level composition courses. Before AUIS, James taught at the American University of Afghanistan, offering composition courses, introduction to humanities courses, and 'the Humanities of the Islamic World' courses.听

  • Outstanding Graduate Student in the Persian Language, Indiana University, 2000
  • Outstanding Graduate Student in the Arabic Language, Indiana University, 2000
  • The Watkins Scholarship, University of Montana, 1998
  • Pre-Islamic Religions of Central Asia, especially Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and Eastern Christianity
  • 鈥淢ani鈥� in The Encyclopedia of World Religious Figures, edited by Scott E. Hendrix and 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Uchenna Okeja, ABC-CLIO, 2018
  • First Year Seminar I, English Composition for Liberal Arts I
  • First Year Seminar II, English Composition for Liberal Arts II
  • SYS/SS/HUM 230: the Gone Religion: Manicheaism in Central Asia
  • SYS/SS/HUM 276:听 the Pre-Islamic Religions of Central Asia
  • From Alexander to Achilles: Ancient Greek History, MA level