1. Suad Joseph received her doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 1975.
11 Facts About Suad Joseph
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Dr Joseph is Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis and in 2009 was President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
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Suad Joseph is the founder and facilitator of a six-university consortium of the American University of Beirut, American University in Cairo, Lebanese American University, University of California at Davis, and Birzeit University Consortium.
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Suad Joseph was born in Lebanon as the youngest of seven children.
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Suad Joseph grew up in Cortland, New York, and thanks to the local State University of New York, Cortland, she was able to achieve an undergraduate education.
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Suad Joseph then went on to complete graduate school, studying anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and then at Columbia University, where she achieved her doctoral degree in anthropology.
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Suad Joseph founded the Arab Families Working Group in 2001.
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Suad Joseph founded the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures project and is its general editor.
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Suad Joseph is the founder of the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology, which later evolved into the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.
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Suad Joseph is the founder of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and co-founder of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies.
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Suad Joseph is the facilitator of the American University of Beirut, American University in Cairo, Lebanese American University, University of California, Davis and Birzeit University Consortium, which she founded in 2011.