عضو هيئة التدريس في جامعة كاليفورنيا، ديفيس، قسم الدراسات الدينية،
التعليم :
الشهادة الجامعية الاولى ، دارتموث كوليج، 1991
ماجستير في العلوم الاجتماعية والثقافية، جامعة أكسفورد، 1994
شهادة الدكتوراة في الأنثروبولوجيا اللغوية، جامعة ميشيغان، 2001.
الاهتمامات البحثية :
وتتركز أبحاثه على ثقافات الإصلاح الإسلامي الحديث في الشرق الأوسط وخاصة اليمن
ويستمد عمله المتعدد التخصصات في مجال الدين من الأنثروبولوجيا اللغوية والثقافية، والتاريخ، ونظرية الإعلام، والشعر، والفلسفة، والدراسات الثقافية.
من منشوراته ( باللغة الاصلية ) :
كتب :
1 - The Audacious Ascetic: What the bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qa`ida (Hurst / Oxford University Press, Sept. 2015).
2 - The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen (Harvard University Middle Eastern Monographs series, 2007).
منشورات حديثة أخرى :
"Rereading the Origins of Al-Qā`ida through Usāma Bin Lādin's Former Audiocassette Collection," in Ten Years Later: Insights on Al-Qaeda's Past and Future through Captured Records. Eds. Lorry Fenner, Mark Stout and Jessica Goldings. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies. (Pp.100-11). (2012)
"Listen, Plan and Carry Out ‘al-Qā`ida': Theological Dissension in Usāma Bin Lādin’s Former Audiocassette Collection," in Contextualising Jihadi Thought. Eds. Jeevan Deol and Zaheer Kazmi. Hurst and Company/Columbia University Press. Pp.69-97. (2011)
"On the Ethics of Graduated Disclosure in Contexts of War," in Anthropologists in the Securityscape: A Casebook of Stories in Identity, Practice and Ethics. Eds. R. Albro, M. Schoch-Spana, G. Marcus, L. McNamara. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. (2011)
“The Ethics of Sound in the Osama Bin Laden Audiotape Collection: Lessons from the Art of an Egg,” Anthropology News, December issue. (2010)
"Al-Qa`ida as a 'Pragmatic Base': Contributions of Area Studies to Sociolinguistics," Language and Communication, 28(4): 386-408. (2008)
"Forms of Suffering in Muslim Prison Poetry," in Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak. Ed. Marc Falkoff. The University of Iowa Press, 2007. Pp.7-16.
"Of Songs and Signs: Audiocassette Poetry, Moral Character, and the Culture of Circulation in Yemen," American Ethnologist, 32(1): 82-99. (2005)
“Metaphors of Commerce: Trans-valuing Tribalism in Yemeni Audiocassette Poetry,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 34(1): 29-57. (2002)
"Public Words and Body Politics: Reflections on the Strategies of Women Poets in Rural Yemen," Journal of Women's History, 14(1): 94-122. (2002)
(Co-author Ulrike Freitag). "Three Poems on British Involvement in Yemen, from the Yemeni Press 1937," The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History. Eds. C. Amin, B. Fortna, E. Frierson. Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp.492-500.
Entries for “Yemen,” “Aden,” and “Sanaa” in Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, vol.2: Locations. Continuum Press, United Kingdom, 2005.
Review of Mandana Limbert’s In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory and Social Life in an Omani Town, in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, (forthcoming in 2012.)
Review of Janet McIntosh’s The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast, in the American Anthropologist, December issue. (2010)
Review of Charles Hirschkind’s The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics, in Contemporary Islam.
Review of Jillian Schwedler’s Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen, in International Journal of Middle East Studies. (Forthcoming in 2008).
Review of Niloofar Haeri’s Sacred Language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt, in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 17(2): 305-7. (2007)
Review of Paul Dresch’s A History of Modern Yemen, in Yemen Update, Spring issue. (2003)
Review of Martha Mundy's Domestic Government: Kinship, Community, and Polity in North Yemen, in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 29(2): 182-5. (1998)
"The Ransom Was Paid" (op-ed piece), The Sacramento Bee, September 13, 2014.
المشاريع الحالية:
Flagg is currently working on two projects. The first is a cultural history of a text-processing algorithm used by US counter-terrorism analysts to study and predict terrorist violence. The second is a study of Muslim reform movements in Syria, Qatar and France and their engagements with the Islamic art of legal disputation (ikhtilaf).
الأوسمة والجوائز:
The University of California President's Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, 2013-14
American Council of Learned Societies’ Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, 2010-11
Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellow, Washington, D.C., 2009-10
Hellman Fellow, University of California, Davis, 2008-09
National Humanities Center Fellowship, Durham, North Carolina, 2007-8 (declined)
Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall, 2006
American Institute for Yemeni Studies, November-January, 2005-06
The Franke Institute for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2001-02
Malcolm H. Kerr Award Runner-Up, Middle East Studies Association, Social Science Dissertations, 2001-02
Social Science Research Council - International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1998-99
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, 1998
Fulbright Fixed-Sum Grant, 1991-2
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