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CURRICULUM VITAE
JAAFAR AKSIKAS, Ph.D.
Dept. of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences 117 E Crescent Avenue
Cultural Studies Program Elmhurst, IL 60126
Columbia College Chicago 630-568-9603 (home)
624 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605 630-392-0335 (cell)
312-369-8667 (office)
Jaksikas@colum.edu
www.jaafaraksikas.net
EDUCATION
2005…….Cultural Studies Program….George Mason University…….Fairfax, VA, USA
Ph.D. in Cultural Studies
1999....School of Humanities and Social Sciences…..Al Akhawayn University......Ifrane, Morocco
M.A. in the Humanities and Comparative Cultural Studies
1997...............Department of English…Chouaib Doukkali University...........El Jadida, Morocco
B.A. in English (Literatures in English Focus)… (with Highest Honors)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2009-Present........Cultural Studies.........Columbia College Chicago......Chicago, IL USA
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies
2005-2009............Cultural Studies.........Columbia College Chicago......Chicago, IL USA
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies
2002-2003............LIFE Program, George Mason University............Fairfax, VA, USA
Adjunct Instructor
2000-2002…...International Institute, English for Business and Communication...Casablanca, Morocco
Director of Studies and Core Instructor
1998 – 2002.............The American Language Center.........Casablanca, Morocco
Core Instructor of English as a Foreign/Second Language
ASSISTANTSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS
2003-2005….Honors Program….George Mason University……Fairfax, VA, USA
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2002-2003….New Century College….George Mason University……Fairfax, VA, USA
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2002-2003...........Dept. of Special Studies, International Graduate University.…Washington, DC, USA
Substitute Instructor
June – August 1998............The American Language Center........Casablanca, Morocco
Intern
Dec.1997 – Feb. 1998...The British Language Centre..............El Jadida, Morocco
Intern Teacher of English as a Foreign Language
Other Employment:
1998 - 1999...............Al Akhawayn University.....................Ifrane, Morocco
Part-time Assistant of the
Director of the Islamic Research Center
1997 – 1998...............Al Akhawayn University......................Ifrane, Morocco
Part-time Hall Assistant
HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
June 2009……………………Marquis Who’s Who……USA
Biographee, Who’s Who in America, 2010
April 2005……………………Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars……USA
Honor Society for International Scholars Member
2002 –2005..............George Mason University..........Fairfax, VA, USA
Graduate Teaching Assistantship to pursue doctoral studies
January 2003………………..….George Mason University…….Fairfax, VA, USA
VISION Award for Academic Excellence
2002 –2003..............George Mason University..........Fairfax, VA, USA
Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue doctoral studies
1997 – 1999..............The Ministry of Higher Education..........Rabat, Morocco
Scholarship to pursue graduate studies
2002 – 2004..............The Ministry of Higher Education..........Rabat, Morocco
Scholarship to pursue graduate studies
1997 – 1999..............The Ministry of Higher Education..........Rabat, Morocco
Scholarship to pursue graduate studies
1997 – 1999...........Al Akhawayn University.........................Ifrane, Morocco
Grant to pursue graduate studies
August 1997....................The Province......................................El Jadida, Morocco
The Governor Prize for Qualified Students
May 1995......................Chouaib Doukkali University.................El Jadida, Morocco
The University Prize for Academic Excellence
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND PROJECTS:
Practicing Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Cultural Studies Methodologies. Forthcoming.
Arab Modernities: Islamism, Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-Colonial Arab World. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009.
The Sirah of Antar: An Islamic Interpretation of Arab and Islamic History. Al Akhawayn University Research Paper Series. Casablanca: Najah Al Jadida Press, 2002.
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND BOOK REVIEWS:
“Is Cultural Theory Really Dead?” A Review of Terry Eagleton’s After Theory. Reviews in Cultural Theory. Forthcoming.
“America’s Primitive Turn: Capital and the “War on Terror” in Post-9/11 America,” A Review of Paul Smith’s Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy. Reviews in Cultural Theory. 1:3 (2010).
“Could/Should Cultural Studies be ‘Born Again’? Cultural Studies, Political Economy, and Radical Historicity,” a Chapter in Renewing Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.
“Editorial Introduction.” With Lisa Brock. Cultural Landscapes: A Cultural Studies Journal. 1:2 (2008): 1-2.
“Prisoners of Globalization: Marginality, Community, and the New Informal Economy in Morocco.” Mediterranean Politics. 12:2 (2007): 249-262.
“Editorial Statement.” With Lisa Brock. Cultural Landscapes: A Cultural Studies Journal. 1:2 (2007): 1-2.
“Colonial and Postcolonial Liberalism in the Middle East.” Reservoir. 6-12 April 2006.
“Nation and Nationalism in the Postcolonial Middle East.” Reservoir. 6-12 March 2006.
“Contemporary Islamism in the Middle East.” Reservoir. 6-12 February 2006.
“The Histories of Islam.” Reservoir. 6-12 Januray 2006.
“De attitude van Marokkaanse TV-kigkers op de reklame van de Marokkaanse kanalen [The Attitudes of Berber-Speaking Moroccans Towards TV Commercials].” Cultuur en Imigratie: The Dutch Journal of Society and Culture. 17:2 (1999): 53-81.
"The Image of Woman in Greek Drama." AUI News 13 July 1998: 2-3
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
Practicing Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Cultural Studies Methodologies (A textbook on the epistemology of research in Cultural Studies), A Book/Research Project
Culture/Society/Agency: A Journal of Cultural Studies, A Scholarly Journal Project
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Doing Cultural Studies: A Seminar on Cultural Studies Methods and Methodologies,” to be presented at the 2010 Cultural Studies Association Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 18, 2010.
“Undergraduate Research in Cultural Studies,” a panel to be moderated at the 2010 Cultural Studies Association Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 19, 2010.
“Globalization and the Politics of Collectivity,” presented in the “All Together Now: The Future(s) of Collectivity” Roundtable at the 2010 Cultural Studies Association Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 20, 2010.
“Contemporary Cultural Studies: The Way Forward,” presented the MLG Summer Institute On Culture and Society Conference, Portland State University, Portland, June 20, 2009.
“Cultural Studies, in Practice,” presented in the “Going Pro: What Difference Does Cultural Studies Make?” Seminar at the 2009 Cultural Studies Association Conference, Kansas City, April 17, 2009.
“Towards a New Cultural Studies: Cultural Studies, Marxism, and Global Capitalism,” presented at the 2008 Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, on July 3, 2008.
"On Teaching Globalization to Undergraduates at Columbia College: New Challenges and New Opportunities," delivered at the MLG Summer Institute On Culture and Society Conference, The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, on June 10, 2008.
“Could/Should Cultural Studies be ‘Born Again’? Cultural Studies, Political Economy, and Radical Historicity,” presented at the Cultural Studies Now Conference, University of East London—London, UK, on July 20, 2007.
“Productive Disciplinary Tensions: Looking Backwards and Forwards at Cultural Studies Education” presented at the Cultural Studies Now Conference, University of East London—London, UK, on July 21, 2007.
“Other Trajectories to Modernity: The Middle East and North Africa,” presented at Change in the Middle East Conference, University of Wisconsin – Madison, March 27, 2006.
“Teaching Middle Eastern and North African Studies at American Universities,” presented at Change in the Middle East Conference, University of Wisconsin – Madison, November 5, 2005.
“Making the Most of Your EFL Textbook," presented at the Tenth Annual American Cultural Association Conference, Tangier, Morocco, November 15-17, 2001.
RECENT INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS
“Jottings on Human Nature as a Historical Phenomenon: A Cultural Studies Intervention,”
presented at the “What is Human Nature? A Symposium,” Critical Encounters Lecture Series, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, April 23, 2009.
“Politics, Public Pedagogy, and the Teaching of Cultural Studies,” presented at the Conscious Living Panel, Echoes of Chicago, Chicago, USA, May 24, 2008.
“Inter/Anti/Post/Disciplinary Tensions: A Look at Cultural Studies at Columbia College,” presented at the First Cultural Studies Reunion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, March 2, 2007.
“Introducing/Interrogating Truth Serum Blues, a play by Ismail Khalidi and Bassam Jarbawi,” presented at the Illinois Humanities Council, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, IL, USA, May 19, 2006.
“Dialectic of Globalization in the Middle East & North Africa,” presented at Intersections, the Cultural Studies Program Lecture Series, Chicago Cultural Center, April 03, 2006.
“The Problematic of Modernity,” presented at the Cultural Studies Student/Faculty Colloquium, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, December 5, 2003.
“Reflections on the Poetry of Antar Ibn Shaddad,” presented at the First AUI Poetry Symposium, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, November 10, 1998.
"The Birth and Death of Greek Tragedy: A Historical Introduction," presented at the Third Annual English Festival, Azemmour, Morocco, April 1-3, 1995.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Contemporary Cultural Studies and cultural theory; theories of modernity and globalization; the Frankfurt School; postcolonial studies; Islamic and Arab studies; North African and Middle Eastern cultural studies and history; and Marxism and social theory.
TAUGHT COURSES
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
Capstone II: Thesis in Cultural Studies (Columbia College Chicago)
Methods of Inquiry in Cultural and Social Studies (Columbia College Chicago)
Introduction to Cultural Studies (Columbia College Chicago)
Globalization and Culture (Columbia College Chicago)
Seminar on the Middle East and North Africa (Columbia College Chicago)
Marx and Marxism(s): A Seminar on Marxist Cultural Theory (Columbia College Chicago)
Middle Eastern Mythologies, Independent Study (Columbia College Chicago)
Developmental Writing (George Mason University)
Current Events (George Mason University)
Introduction to Research (George Mason University)
Introduction to Literature (George Mason University)
EFL/ESL COURSES:
UNDERGRADUATE- LEVEL COURSES:
Advanced Conversation and Composition (American Language Center)
Speaking and Listening (American Language Center and National Graduate University)
Reading and Writing (American Language Center and National Graduate University)
TOEFL Preparation (American Language Center)
Business and Professional English (International Institue and RAM)
GRE Preparation (International Institute)
GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES AND SEMINARS:
Theories of Foreign/Second Language Learning (International Institute and TEFL Institute)
Workshop in TEFL/TESL (International Institute and TEFL Institute)
Research Seminar in EFL/ESL (International Institute and TEFL Institute)
TEFL Practicum (International Institute and TEFL Institute)
THESES AND PROJECTS DIRECTED
UNDERGRADUATE THESES:
Director:
Felicia Caro, “On Emergent Techno-Subjectivities: Convergent/Fragmented Identities in the Era of Globalization” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2009
Devin Costello, “Fantasy, Desire and the Surreal: Defamiliarizing the American Dream through Blue Velvet,” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2009
Kaaren Fehsenfeld, “The Viral Chupacabras: The H1N1 Flu, the Mexican State, Hegemony, and Cultural Resistance” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2009
Samantha Hamlin, “‘Everything I See, I Own’: The Erotics of Empire, Imperial Photography, and Gendered Sexual Violence against Women at Abu Ghraib Prison,” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2009
Whitney Pope, “Consuming Cuteness: Kawaii, Escapism, and Popular Culture in Post-Modern Japan” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2009
Anna Rogowski, “Penetrating Our Most Private Lives: Reading the Consumption of the Sexbot as Technological Other.” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2009
Jennifer Spitler, “Big Pharma and American Psychiatry: Constructing Insanity, Commodifying Wellness, and Psychiatric Slingers,” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2009
Willie Stein, “Going Where the Action is: The Action Film Hero in the Era of Neo-Liberalism,” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2009
Katie Cooper, “Postmodern Urban Famine: The Dialectic of Food Desertification and the
‘Emergent’ Communities of Resistance in Chicago” (Cultural Studies), Spring 2009
Lindsey Dietzler, “James Dobson, Jerry Falwell and the Rhetoric of Hate: Enforcing Queer Exclusion and Heteropatriarchy through Biblical Inerrancy” (Cultural Studies), Spring 2009
Levell Fleming, “Inglorious Working Class Bastards: The “American Dream,” Popular Culture, and the Construction of Blue Collar Subjectivities in Contemporary America” (Cultural Studies), Spring 2009
Thomas Packard, “New Christianities and the Politics of Resistance in Contemporary America:
Towards a Critical Subcultural Approach to Religion” (Cultural Studies), Spring 2009
Sara Watson, “Selling Hope, Buying Revolution: Critical Reflections on the Commodification of the Images of Che Guevara and Barack Obama” (Cultural Studies), Spring 2009
Salvatore Cassato, Making Sound With What’s Around: A Post Colonial Exploration of Contemporary African Music” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2008
Elizabeth A. Foley, “Deconstructing Race; Hollywood’s (Mis) Representation of Mexican Subjectivity” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2008
Donna Kiser, “Mothers of Incarcerated Sons as Invisible Victims: An Intervention” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2008
Lindsey McLean, “Eat Me: Food Advertizing and the Construction of Feminine Subjectivities in Contemporary American Culture” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2008
Demetria Nanos, “The New/Old Culture War: On the Politics, “Ownership,” and Theft of Cultural Antiquities” (Cultural Studies), Fall 2008
Reader: Abby Fritz (2008); Rogelio Llamedo (2008)
GRADUATE THESES:
Reader:
Abdallah Chrigui, “Rhetorics of Politics in Moroccan Cinema,” Department of Film Studies, Université de Montréal, Canada (In Progress)
Abdelkader Sabil, “Cross-Cultural Discourse or the Discourse of Otherness in the Writings of Clifford Geertz, Paul Rabinow and Paul Bowles,” Department of English, Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco, 2006
COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
DEPARTMENT SERVICE:
Fulbright Host Professor, Abdelkader Sabil, Chouaib Doukkali University, Morocco, 2009
Coordinator and Founder, Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, 2008-2009
Coordinator, New Cultural Studies Students Orientation, Spring, 2009
Member, Faculty Search Committee (Junior Position in Cultural Studies), 2008
Chair, Humanities Curriculum Review Committee, 2007-2008
Member, HHSS Department Program Review Committee, 2007-2008
Organizer and Coordinator, Cultural Studies Open House, 2007-2008
Co-Chair, Faculty Search Committee (Junior Position in Cultural Studies), 2007
Member, Department Faculty Search Committee (Junior Position in Psychology), 2007
Coordinator, Humanities Division, 2006-2007
Member, HHSS Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee, 2006-2007
Member, Faculty Search Committee (Junior Position in Foreign Languages), 2006
Member, Department Faculty Search Committee (Junior Position in Political Science), 2006
Member, Cultural Studies Program Assessment Committee, 2005-2006
Founder and Coordinator, Cultural Studies Study Group, 2005-present
COLLEGE SERVICE:
CCFO Representative, College Council, 2007-present
Member, Provost’s Advisory Committee on the Honors Program Initiative, 2009-present
Member, Provost’s All-Faculty Retreat Committee, 2008
Member, Provost’s Advisory Committee on Integrative Studies Initiatives, 2007-2008
Organizer, Panel on “Globalization and Culture in the Middle East,” for the Intersections Lecture Series, 2006
Member, LAS Dean’s Taskforce on Interdisciplinary Studies Initiatives, 2005-2007
Member, LAS Dean’s Taskforce on Honors/Greater Expectations Programs, 2005-2007
Contributor, Reservoir, Columbia College Student Magazine, 2006
Developer, Cultural Studies Research Guide for the Library
COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Member of the Executive Committee Board, Cultural Studies Association, USA, 2009-present
Member of the Editorial Board, Culture/Society/Agency: A Journal of Cultural Studies,A Project of the Cultural Studies Association USA, 2009-present
Reviewer, The Radical History Review, 2009-present
Researcher and Consultant, Illinois Outreach Network on Islam and Muslim Societies, 2008-present
Reviewer, The Communication Quarterly, 2008-present
Founder and Core Editor, Cultural Landscapes: A Journal in Cultural Studies, 2007-present
Translator, Arabic/French-Speaking Communities in Chicago, 2005-present
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
Member, Organizing Committee, of the Cultural Studies Association Conference, University of California, Berkeley, USA, April 28, 2010.
Organizer, Cultural Studies Association Conference, Columbia College Chicago, USA, March 24-26, 2011.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Cultural Studies Association (USA), 2008-present
Illinois Network on Islam and Muslim Societies, 2008-present
Modern Language Association of America, 2007-present
Association for Cultural Studies, 2004-present
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