Shared Sacrifice--Dr. Marsha B. Cohen

Dr. Marsha B. Cohen, MiGlobE Fellow, is our guest today. Dr. Cohen earned her PhD in International Relations from Florida International University. Her research focuses on the role of religion in international affairs, particularly in political discourse. Her doctoral dissertation, Lions and Roses: an Interpretive History of Israeli-Iranian Relations, examined parallels in the ways religion is used politically in Israel and Iran. She has been teaching as an Adjunct Lecturer for FIU's International Relations Dept. for the past ten years, specializing in International Relations of the Middle East. She also teaches for the Florence Melton Adult Jewish Studies program, for which she has developed innovative courses including "The Geopolitics of the Bible" and "The First Thousand Years of Israeli Politics." She has presented papers at numerous academic conferences in the US and Canada, including ISA (International Studies Association, MECA (Middle East and Central Asia), CIRA (Center for Iranian Research and Analysis), the Society for Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, and the University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies. She has also taught mini-courses at the Chautauqua Instititution ("Joseph in the Bible and the Qu'ran" and "The 'Clash of Civilizations' Argument and its Critics"), and the at the annual LIMMUD conference in the UK. Her review article "A Second Fateful Triangle" was recently published in the journal Global Dialogue, a project of the Centre for World Dialogue. She will be presenting a paper at ISA Northeast entitled "Uses of the Past: A Constructivist Approach to Transnational Political Historiography." Call in, stand up, speak out at 347-327-9615. For an interesing study on Iranian public opinion, visit http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brmiddleeastnafricara/527.php?lb=brme&pnt=527&nid=&id.