The Department of Near Eastern Studies will hold a meeting Friday to discuss the career of assistant professor Michael Doran GS '97, a well-liked scholar of the Middle East known for his post-Sept. 11, 2001 commentary, after he recently received an offer for a tenured position from a competing institution.
Brandeis University has offered Doran a tenured position, according to a different NES faculty member. Brandeis officials would not comment.
Doran confirmed on Wednesday evening that he received an offer from an institution and is being considered for a tenured position at Princeton. However, he declined to give further details.
This development provides a small glimpse into the world of faculty hiring practices, in which universities often discreetly compete for professors.
When asked if Doran's tenure process was being accelerated, Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin said that "an assistant professor can be considered [for tenure] at any time" and added that the tenure committees give all members of the faculty equal consideration.
But he declined to discuss the details of Doran's case, citing confidentiality.
Professor M. Sukru Hanioglu, director of the Program in Near Eastern Studies, confirmed there would be a meeting on Friday to decide whether the department would make a recommendation to the dean of the faculty about Doran. He, too, declined to comment further.
Doran, who received his masters and doctoral degrees from Princeton, teaches courses in "political Islam, Middle Eastern nationalisms, U.S.-Middle East relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict," according to his profile on the NES website.
Since joining the University community full-time in fall 2000, Doran has consistently received excellent reviews on the Student Course Guide for his work in the classroom.
One student who took Doran's NES 201/HIS 223: Introduction to the Middle East in the fall of 2003 described him as a "great lecturer" and "perfect historian."
In recent years, he has also been a significant voice in the public sector.
For example, as an adjunct senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City, he published a groundbreaking article on Osama bin Laden in the January/February 2002 issue of Foreign Affairs.
Doran has also written a book examining the first Arab-Israeli war, and is currently working on a new text called, "The Trump Card: Israel in the Arab Civil War."
Before joining the University's faculty, he was an assistant professor of history at the University of Central Florida from 1997-2000.
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