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News

Read about APTLII 2011 in our newsletter.

The summer 2010 program was featured in Wisconsin Week this September. You can read about it here!

Check out this blog post on APTIP 2010 from the Division of International Studies blog.

2011 Staff

Dustin C. Cowell is a professor of Arabic Language and Islamic Studies of Malaysia and Indonesia in the Department of African Language and Literature. His research focuses on Arabic instruction in Islamic schools (pesantren) and Arabic-Malay/Indonesian Islamic texts. Cowell was a visiting professor of Arabic at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1994-1996.

Saeed Honarmand teaches Persian Language and Persian Literature at Ohio State University. He has been a member of APTLII staff since 2008.

Funda Derin is a lecturer of Turkish in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her PhD on political sciences at Gazi University in Turkey. Her research covers Muslim identity, women and literature.

Scott Trigg is a dissertator in the Joint PhD program in History and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests cover a range of topics in medieval Islamic science, philosophy, and intellectual history, and his dissertation focuses on late medieval Islamic astronomy. Scott has participated as a student in multiple language programs in the U.S. and abroad.

Contact Information

APTLII - Global Studies
301 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

phone: (608) 262-5666
fax: (608) 265-2919
email: aptlii@global.wisc.edu

APTLII is an initiative of Global Studies, with support from the Division of International Studies, the Department of African Languages & Literature, the Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, and the Middle East Studies Program.