HASAN M. EL-SHAMY
Curriculum Vitae (2013)
Professor of Folklore
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program
African Studies Program
Indiana University
Education:
Ph.D. in Folklore (Interdisciplinary: Folklore, Psychology, and Anthropology) Indiana
University, 1967. Dissertation: "Folkloric Behavior" (see: Publications).
M.A. in Folklore, Indiana University, 1964.
Graduate School of Education, Ain-Shams (Heliopolis) Univ., Cairo, Egypt, 1959-60.
B.A. (Honors) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Ain-Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt, 1959.
Major Awards "Daxia Form Lecture (94)"/Great China Lecture Award: "Folkloric Behavior";
and Honors: East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, (May 2011). Ten lectures given.
Keynote Speaker: "International Conference on Folklore and National Integration and
Development", Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria (Feb. 2013).
"Most Frequently Consulted Source" Award: "Our Folkloric Behavior." 7614 hits/users,
academic year 2010-11.King Saud University Library. Riyadh, K.S.A.
At the Invitation of Bogazici Univ., Istanbul, Turkey, I gave the inaugural lecture in a
series to honor the legacy of Turkish folklorist P.N. Boratav (March 2010).
Elected: AFellow@ of the American Folklore Society (October 2006).
“Visiting Senior Scholar Award”: Institute of Advanced Studies in Anthropology,
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan (2002).
Consultant: Sociology Department, Tanta Univ., Egypt (March 2003).
Academic Program Specialist. Consultant: Arab Gulf States Folklore Centre (1989).
Selected by the Medieval Centre, Odense Univ., Denmark: One of Six International
authorities on folk narrative research (1988).
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, 1987-88 (the first to the State of Qatar).
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Award, 1985-87.
The Chicago Folklore Prize (Folktales of Egypt), 1980.
Ford Foundation Middle Eastern Social Science Research Award, 1972-73.
Fulbright Fellowship (to Indiana University Graduate School), 1960-61.