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GenEd Faculty & Staff

James G. Hart, Ph.D.candidate

Ph.D. candidate, Assistant Professor

Non-departmental General Education Faculty

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

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Phone: +996 (312) 915000 ext. 480

Room: 415

James Hart is an Assistant Professor of the non-degree General Education program at the 麻豆传媒 and a Ph.D. candidate in Ancient Religions at Leiden University (Netherlands). He holds a Master of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University (2001, USA) and a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Languages from the University of Montana (1998, USA).听

James joined 麻豆传媒 in 2018 as a full-time lecturer in General Education. Before 麻豆传媒, he was an instructor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimania (AUIS), where he taught a three to four-semester introduction to the liberal arts/introduction to the humanities course sequence called 鈥楥ivilization,鈥� as well as 鈥榃orld Religions,鈥� 鈥榯he History of the Middle East,鈥� and 鈥楨mpires: Origins.鈥� He also taught university-level composition courses. Before AUIS, James taught at the American University of Afghanistan, offering composition courses, introduction to humanities courses, and 'the Humanities of the Islamic World' courses.听

Outstanding Graduate Student in the Persian Language, Indiana University, 2000
Outstanding Graduate Student in the Arabic Language, Indiana University, 2000
The Watkins Scholarship, University of Montana, 1998

Pre-Islamic Religions of Central Asia, especially Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and Eastern Christianity

鈥淢ani鈥� in The Encyclopedia of World Religious Figures, edited by Scott E. Hendrix and 听听听听听听听听听 Uchenna Okeja, ABC-CLIO, 2018

First Year Seminar I, English Composition for Liberal Arts I
First Year Seminar II, English Composition for Liberal Arts II
SYS/SS/HUM 230: the Gone Religion: Manicheaism in Central Asia
SYS/SS/HUM 276:听 the Pre-Islamic Religions of Central Asia
From Alexander to Achilles: Ancient Greek History, MA level