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Professional Summary

Professor Frederic Cadora’s academic activities involve research and teaching in anthropological and socio-historical Arabic linguistics, the relationship of language to culture and the representation of cultural aspects of Arab society in literature. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars on the culture of contemporary Arab society, modern and classical Arabic literature, Arab-American society, Modern Standard Arabic at all levels, colloquial Arabic, and the history and structure of the Arabic language and its dialects. Professor Cadora is also interested in the development of collegiate educational programs in Arabic.

Education

Ph.D.: University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1966 (Near Eastern Languages, Cultures, and Literatures)

M.A: University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1961 (Near Eastern Studies: Anthropology and History)

M.A. : University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1962 (Linguistics)

B.A. : Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, 1959 (French and International Relations)

Research and Practice Interests

Professor Frederic Cadora’s academic activities involve research in anthropological and socio-historical Arabic linguistics, the relationship of language to culture and the representation of cultural aspects of Arab society in literature, including, more revently, the perils of honor in Arabic literature and culture and hispano-Arabic literature and culture.

An Introduction to Arabic Script, Phonology, and Grammar texbook is being prepared and is now [SS13] used in the Arabic 4010: Review of Arabic Grammar class. The 500-page manuscript should be ready to submit for publication during the summer.

Positions and Work Experience

1967 -1969 Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Establishment and administration of the Arabic Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1970 -1983 Associate Professor of Near Eastern languages & Cultures, Administration, Programmatic Development , and Instruction: Arabic Program , Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1983 -1995 Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Establishment of BA, MA, and PhD Programs in Arabic and instruction in undergraduate and graduate language, culture, and literature courses., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1982 -1995 Chair, Department of NE Languages and Cultures, Administered programs in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, and Ancient NE languages, conducted faculty recruitment, annual, reappointment, promotion, and tenure reviews., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

06-1970 -07-1970 Lecturer, Six-week Seminar on Middle Eastern Studies, sponsored by the Institute of International Studies, U.S. Office of Education , Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio

1971 -1981 NEH Developer of Arabic Curriculum and Teaching Materials , Preparation of Arabic Self-paced Teaching Materials and Successful Implementation of an Individualized Instructional Program, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities grants , Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1986 -1995 Coordinator of Annual Middle Eastern Culture Workshop, Middle Eastern Culture Workshop for high school teachers and community adults, Summer , Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1990 -1995 Director/Co-Director of National NEH Arabic Language & Culture Institute, National Arabic Language & Culture Institute, OSU, (Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1979 -1980 President of AATA, Presided over the annual meeting of the American Association of Professors of Arabic [AATA}, American Association of Professors of Arabic, Washington, DC

1990 -1990 President, Presided over the annual meeting of the Arabic Linguistics Society, Arabic Linguistics Society, Washington, DC

12-04-1977 -12-04-1977 Evaluator, MLA Task Force #3 Subcommittee, Modern Language Association, Washington, DC

1975 -1975 Chairman of the AOS Planning Committee , National Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society [AOS], American Oriental Society, Columbus, Ohio

1972 -1974 Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Coordinated and directed activities of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1972 -1977 Executive Secretary, Coordinated activities and presided over meetings of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, American Association of Teachers of Arabic, Columbus, Ohio

11-1970 -11-1970 Co-Chairman of Planning Committee for Annual Meeting , National Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America [MESA] and the American Association of Teachers of Arabic [AATA] , MESA and AATA, Columbus, Ohio

1992 -1995 Member, Board of Directors of CASA, Selected students from member institutions to attend the CASA year Program [Center for Arabic Study Abroad/Cairo] , Johns Hopkins, Washington, DC

1990 -1990 Director, Middle Eastern Languages Consortium , Middle Eastern Languages Consortium in Persian and Turkish, Summer Program, supported by the US Office of Education, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1982 -1992 Editor of Al-Arabiyya AATA Journal, Al-Arabiyya, Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic [AATA] , Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1980 -1981 Visiting Professor, Taught courses on Arabic, language, literature, culture, and linguistics, Oberlin Cillege, Oberlin, Ohio

1990 -1992 Principal Investigator of DOE Arabic Materials Project , Arabic Materials Project for Proficiency-oriented and Communicatively-based and Computer-assisted Instruction, U.S. Department of Education and OSU/CTE grants , Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1993 -1996 Member CIES Committee, Fulbright Program, Middle East History and Literature, CIES Discipline National Advisory Committee, Fulbright Program ,

1995 -1996 Visiting Professor, Taught courses on Arabic culture, and linguistics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan

06-01-1996 -07-31-1996 Visiting Professor, Taught Advanced Arabic , University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1995 -2005 Emeritus Chair and Professor, Taught courses on Arabic, language, literature, culture, and linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

2004 -2005 Visiting Professor, Taught courses on Arabic literature, culture, and linguistics, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio

1987 -1990 Member of the OSU Senate, Served a term in the Ohio State University Senate, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1993 -1995 Member of the OSU Senate, Served a term in the Ohio State University Senate, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

1963 -1967 Instructor and Assistant Professor, Taught courses in linguistics and Sophomore English, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

1984 -1985 Evaluator, Consultant, and Curriculum Developer of Arabic Program, Education Department and Arabic Program of ARAMCO [Arabian-American Oil Company] School System , ARAMCO, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

04-28-1979 -05-05-1979 Evaluator of Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo, Arabic Program of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad [CASA]; administered by a consortium of American universities, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

1991 -1992 Participant and Coordinator of Mellon Advanced Arabic Program, Arabic-Speaking Academic Immersion Program Funded by the Mellon Foundation for American university graduate students and faculty), University of Jordan [UJ] and the American Center for Oriental Research [ACOR] , UJ and ACOR, Amman, Jordan

12-01-1998 -03-30-1998 Visiting Professor, Conducted seminars on the Structure of Arabic and InnovativeMethods for Teaching Arabic as a Second Language Delegated by McGill University, Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia

12-01-1998 -03-30-1998 Visiting Professor, Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Conducted seminars on the Structure of Arabic and Innovative Methods for Teaching Arabic as a Second Language; Delegated by McGill University, Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia

2005 - Educator Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

2012 - Educator Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, Director of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Programs and Certificates, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Abbreviated Publications

Book

Contemporary Arabic Readers: III Formal Arabic, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

Interdialectal Lexical Compatibility in Arabic: AnAnalytical Study of Lexical Relationships Among the Major Urban Syro-Lebanese Varieties, Brill, Leiden, 1979.

Bedouin, Village, and Urban Arabic: An Ecolinguistic Study. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1992.

Monograph

Phonology and Script of Arabic,The Ohio State University, 1974

Peer Reviewed Publications

"The Concept of Compatibility in the Study of Language Varieties, Word, Vol.22, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (1966), pp. 310-17

"Some Features of the Development of Telescoped Words in Arabic Dialects," An-Nashra, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1974), pp. 59-72.

"Lexical Relationships in Arabic Dialects and the Swadesh List," Linguistics,Vol. 18, No. 6 (1976), pp. 237-260.

"Contrastive Compatibility in Some Arabic Dialects and their Classifications," Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 18, No. 9 (1976), pp. 393-40.

"The Use of Some Synthetic and Lexical Features in Dialectal Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Analysis," Al- cArabiyya, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), pp. 5-13.

"Individualized Instruction in Arabic: An Integrated Curricular and Administrative System" (with N. Daher), Al- cArabiyya, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 and 2 (1977), pp. 55-63.

"Some Linguistic Concomitants of Contactual Factors of Urbanization, " Anthropological Linguistics,Vol. 12, No. 1 (1970), pp. 10-19.

"The Teaching of Spoken and Written Arabic," Language Learning, Vol. 22, Nos. 3 and 4 (1965), pp. 133-6

Presentations

Lecture

Frederic Cadora (04-2010. ) Campus. UC. Level:College

Frederic Cadora (2010. ) MES 245 Introduction to the Middle East. UC. Level:University

Service

Program Coordinator Type:Departmental Service Level:University 01-01-2010 -10-30-2010

Program Coordinator Type:Departmental Service Level:University 09-01-2010 -11-30-2010

(Undergraduate Council ) Committee Member Type:Departmental Service Level:University 09-2011 -06-2012

Director Type:Departmental Service Level:College

Other Level:College

Other Type:Departmental Service Level:College

Director Type:Departmental Service Level:Department 09-2012 -09-2015

Courses Taught

15-ARAB-323 SEXUALITY ARAB LIT Level:Undergraduate

Arabic 310 and 233

15-ARAB-310 ARABIC CULTURE Level:Undergraduate

Arabic 310 and 233

15-ARAB-310 ARABIC CULTURE Level:Undergraduate

Arabic 310

15 ARAB ARAB WOMEN NOVELISTS Level:Undergraduate

Arabic 322