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Staff of the Outreach Center
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Lisa Adeli, Outreach Coordinator
 Lisa Adeli has been the Outreach Coordinator for the University of Arizona’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies since July 2007. A certified high school teacher (Social Studies and English with an ESL endorsement), she taught World History at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona, for 12 years. She is currently teaching a dual-credit Middle Eastern Studies class at Tucson’s Cholla High School.
Ms. Adeli received her BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1979, two master’s degrees - in History and in Applied Linguistics (Teaching English As a Second Language) from Indiana University in 1983, and a doctorate in History from the University of Arizona in 2004. In between, she lived/studied in Yugoslavia for a year and a half, spent several years as a part-time college instructor, and then earned a secondary teaching certificate. As a high school teacher, she was deeply involved in National History Day, became a Museum Teacher Fellow with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C, served one year on the organizational team that planned the International Studies Summer Institute for teachers at Indiana University, and was involved in IREX’s Teaching Excellence and Achievement program, which took her to a school in Vanadzor, Armenia, in April 2008.
As CMES Outreach Coordinator, her goal is to provide teachers with accurate information on the Middle East, professional development opportunities both in the U.S. and abroad, and materials that educators can use in their classrooms. Feel free to contact her at: 621-7904 or adeli@email.arizona.edu.
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