Oman Experts

OMAN STUDIES CENTRE

Oman and Arabian Gulf 'experts'

This directory lists people - academic and non-academic - with a special knowledge or expertise on Oman. If you need any particular information, please contact them directly. The list includes members of the Oman Studies Centre, but names have also been compiled from directories such as the International Directory of Middle East Specialists, the MESA Roster of Members, the DAVO membership list and the list of members of the German-Omani Association. If you wish to be listed, or if you wish to recommend further additions, please let us know. E-mail your corrections and additions to: info@oman.org. In adition to this general list of experts, consult our lists of archaeology experts, natural history experts, booksellers, stamp dealers, phone card collectors, institutions, companies, etc. As an alternative to contacting the 'experts', you can also subscribe to the Oman Maillist and submit your question to a wider public in the hope that someone has the answer.

Allen, Calvin H. jr (Prof. Dr.)
Adress: University of Memphis, Mitchell Hall 119, Memphis, TN 38152, USA. - Phone: +1-901-6783384. - Fax: +1-901-6783299. - e-mail: challen@memphis.edu
Areas: modern history of Oman

Arnold, Werner (Dr.)
Address: Universität Erlangen, Seminar für außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen, Bismarckstr. 1, 91054 Erlangen, Germany. - Phone: +49-9131-852446 (work), +49-6221-381361 (home). - Fax: +49-9131-856022 (work). - e-mail: wrarnold@phil.uni-erlangen.de
Areas: Modern South Arabian languages (Dhofar)

Asche, Hartmut (Prof. Dr.)
Address: Universität Potsdam, Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie, P.O. Box 601553, D-14415 Potsdam, Germany. - Phone: +49-331-9772274, -9772271. - Fax: +49-331-9772717. - e-mail: gislab@rz.uni-potsdam.de
Areas: geography, cartography, remote sensing, Batinah coast

Baldissera, Eros
Address: Dipartimento di Scienze Storico-Archeologiche e Orientalistiche, Sezione arabistica, Universita' Ca' Foscari, Palazzo Cappello, S. Polo 2035, I-30125 Venezia, Italy. - Fax +39-41-5241891. - e-mail: balderos@helios.unive.it
Areas: epigraphy, modern and contemporary Omani literature

Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen
Address: Lecturer, School of Architecture & Building Engineering, The University of Liverpool, Leverhulme Building, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK. - Phone: +44-151-794 2629. - Fax: +44-151-794 2605. - E-mail: soumyenb@liv.ac.uk
Areas: traditional and modern architecture, social amd environmental issues related to architecture and settlement patterns

Barth, Fredrik
Address: Etnografisk Museum, University of Oslo, Frederiks Gate 2, 0164 Oslo 1, Norway. - Phone: +47-2-416300. - Fax: +47-2-335825
Areas: nomadism, anthropology

Bickett, Brenda E.
Address: Georgetown University, Library, P.O. Box 571174, Washington, DC 20057-1174, USA. - Phone: +1-202-687 7541 work, +1-703-920 3041 home. - Fax: +1-202-687 1215. - e-mail: bickettb@gunet.georgetown.edu
Areas: bibliography

Bierschenk, Thomas (Prof. Dr.)
Address: Professor für Kulturen und Gesellschaften Afrikas, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany. - Phone: +49-6131-392798 (work), +49-711-4587902 (home). - Fax: +49-6131-393730. - e-mail: biersche@mail.uni-mainz.de
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~ifeas/
Areas: culture and society

Bin Seray, Hamad M.
Address: Al Ain University, Dept. of History, PO Box 17771, Al-Ain, UAE. - Phone: +971-3-678333,. - Fax: +971-3-671612.
Areas: ancient history

Cancel, Cecíl Marie
Address: Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Liberal Arts and Political Science, P.O. Box 191293, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. - e-mail: mfont@ns.inter.edu http://coqui.metro.inter.edu/cecil/cecil.htm
Areas: women, development and modernization processes, culture

Chatty, Dawn
Address: University of Oxford, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St. Giles Street, Oxford OX1 3LA, UK. - Phone: +44-1865-270432. - Fax: +44-1865-270721. - e-mail: dawn.chatty@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Areas: nomadic pastoralism, gender & development, anthropology, women

Clements, Frank A.
Address: College of St. Mark and St. John, Derriford Road, Plymouth, Devon PL6 8BH, UK. - Phone: +44-1752-777188 ext. 4206 work; +44-1752-777549 home. - Fax: +44-1752-761114.
Areas: bibliography of Oman, economics, politics, modern history

Cleuziou, Serge
Address: CNRS Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, ERA 41, Centre de recherches archéologiques, 3 rue Michelet, 75006 Paris, France. - e-mail: cleuziou@mae.u-paris10.fr
Areas: archaeology

Coles, Steve L.
Address: Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817, USA. - Phone/Fax: +1-808-8478256, Fax: +1-808-847 8252. - e-mail: slcoles@bishopmuseum.org
http://www.bishopmuseum.org
Areas: marine ecology, corals

Costa, Paolo M.
Address: 110, via Flaminia, 00060 Castelnuovo di Porto (Roma), Italy - Phone/Fax +39-6-9079733.
Areas: archaeology, architecture, anthropology

Düster, Joachim
Address: Avenue de Tervuren 26, 1040 Brussels, Belgium. - Phone: +32-2-7741990 (office). - Fax: +32-2-7723692 (office). - e-mail: jduester@pobox.com
http://www.geocities.com/jduester/cv.html and http://people.whowhere.com/pages/duester1
Areas: any subject, bibliographic information, history, philately

Eickelman, Christine
Address: Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755-3570, USA. - Phone: +1-603-6432553. - e-mail: c.eickelman@dartmouth.edu
Areas: anthropology, women & gender

Eickelman, Dale F. (Prof. Dr.)
Address: Dartmouth College, Dept. of Anthropology, Hanover NH 03755-3750, USA. - Phone: +1-603-6462621. - Fax: +1-603-6462810. - e-mail: dale.f.eickelman@dartmouth.edu
Areas: anthropology, society, social organization, women

Fisher, Martin
Address: Department of Biology, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of the South Pacific, P.O. Box 1168, Suva, Fiji. - Phone/Fax: +679 398402 (Home), Phone +679 212559 (Office), Fax +679 315601 (Office). - e-mail: martin.fisher@usp.ac.fj
Areas: ecology and conservation of woodlands and mammals, climatology, bibliographic research on natural history and conservation

Ghazanfar, Shahina A.
Address: Department of Biology, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of the South Pacific, P.O. Box 1168, Suva, Fiji. - Phone/Fax: +679 398402 (Home). - e-mail: shahina.ghazanfar@usp.ac.fj
Areas: flora, vegetation, phytogeography, medicinal plants and traditional medicine

Hattori, Tomohisa
Address: Graduate Student, Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. - Phone: +1-510-5485298.
Areas: political science

Heaven, Virginia L.
Address: Haifa Faisal Collection, 1255 S Wabash, 6N, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. - Phone: +1-312-9868505. - Fax: +1-312-9868511.
Areas: material culture

Hirst, Alastair J., Practising lawyer
Address: Visiting Lecturer in Business Law, College of Economics and Commerce, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod, Oman. - Phone: +44-131-556 3524. - Fax: +44-131-557 5338. - e-mail: ajhirst@eastlaw.demon.co.uk
Areas: modern Oman law, Arabic language

Jansen, Michael (Prof. Dr.)
Address: RWTH Aachen, Lehrgebiet Stadtbaugeschichte, Schinkelstr. 1, D-52062 Aachen, Germany. - Phone: +49-241-805073. - Fax: +49-241-8888298. - e-mail: jansen@stadtbaug.rwth-aachen.de
Areas: archaeology (especially al-Balid, Dhofar), traditional architecture

Janzen, Jörg (Dr.)
Address: FU Berlin, ZELF, Grunewaldstr. 35, 12165 Berlin, Germany. - Phone: +49-30-8384823 and 8214144. - Fax: +49-30-8384987.
Areas: geography, Dhofar

Joyce, Miriam
Address: Purdue University Calumet, Political Science, Hammond, IN 46323, USA. - Phone: +1-219-9892585, +1-312-861-9440. - Fax: +1-219-9892581. - e-mail: mjoyce@calumet.purdue.edu
Areas: modern history

Kechichian, Joseph A.
Address: RAND Corp., 1700 Main Street, PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA. - Phone: +1-310-3930411. - Fax: +1-310-451-6960.
Areas: international relations, security, strategic studies, modern history

Landen, Robert G. (Prof. Dr.)
Address: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 351 Lane Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0227, USA. - Phone: +1-540-2316551, +1-804-5641320.
Areas: modern history

el-Mallah, Issam
Adress: Birkenweg 3, D-86559 Adelzhausen, GERMANY. -
Areas: traditional music

Melamid, Alexander
Address: New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA. - Phone: +1-212-2540792.
Areas: contemporary history, oil industry

Moustafa, Ehab M. (Dr.)
Address: 325 Webb Drive, Suite 2211 E, Mississauga, Ontario L5B 3Z9, CANADA. - Phone: +1-905-897 6787. - Fax +1-905-897 1829. - e-mail: emous@emcc.on.ca
http://www.inforamp.net/~emous/oman/
Areas: IT, management

Mouton, Michel
Address: UMR 149, C.N.R.S., Maison de l'Orient, 7 rue Raulin, 69007 Lyon, FRANCE. - e-mail: Michel.Mouton@mom.fr
Areas: pre-islamic archaeology

Nicolini, Beatrice (Dr.)
Address: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Largo A. Gemelli 1, 20123 Milano, ITALY. - Phone: +39-376-324755 home, +39-2-7234 2295 work. - Fax: +39-376-220585. - e-mail: bnicolini@mi.unicatt.it and cesare.nicolini@usa.net
Areas: Western Indian Ocean, Oman-Zanzibar connection, Makran coast

Peterson, John E.
Address: P.O. Box 18531, Washington DC 20036, USA. -
Areas: modern history, political change, development
e-mail: 75152.551@compuserve.com

Rao, Vijay S.
Address: Futures Group International Inc., 1050 17th St NW #1000, Washington, DC 20036, USA. - Phone: +1-202-775-9680. - Fax: +1-202-7759694.
Areas: demography, development

Riphenburg, Carol J.
Address: College of DuPage, 425 22nd Street & Lambert Road, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599, USA. - Phone: +1-630-9422670 work, +1-708-6825978 home. - Fax: +1-630-8589845. - e-mail: riphenbu@cdnet.cod.edu
Areas: women, gender relations, politics, modern history

Risso, Patricia
Address: Associate Professor, History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. - Phone: +1-505-2775807 work. -
Areas: 18th century history, Indian Ocean

Rowland, Peter B.
Address: Dataxinfo, 1 Castle Lane, London SW1E 6DN, UK. - Phone: +44-171-828 7499. - Fax: +44-171-630 7550. - e-mail: rowland@dataxinfo.com
http://www.dataxinfo.com/hormuz (Musandam/Hormuz project site)
Areas: Musandam, Strait of Hormuz

Scholz, Fred (Univ. Prof. Dr.)
Address: Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften, Zentrum für Entwicklungsländer-Forschung, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin, GERMANY. - Phone: +49-307792-224. - Fax: +49-30-76706445. - e-mail: scholz@geog.fu-berlin.de
http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/Inst/FR1_scholz.shtml
Areas: general, geography, political economy, nomadism

Seznec, Jean Francois
Address: Columbia University, c/o Lafayette Group LLC, 15 Valley Drive, Greenwich, CT 06831, USA. - Phone: +1-203-6295060, -6374090. - Fax: +1-203-6295071 and +1-212-8541413.
Areas: capital markets, banks (esp. central banks), oil & gas industry

Sheriff, Abdul
Address: c/o Centre for Development Studies, Strømgaten 54, 5007 Bergen, NORWAY. - e-mail: Abdel.Sheriff@sfu.uib.no.
Areas: Zanzibar, dhow trade in the Indian Ocean

Sitterly, Tamara
Address: UAE University, BUEC, P.O. Box 17172, Al Ain, UAE. - Phone: +971-3-672656 (UAE), +1-517-4435498 (USA)
Areas: Textile design

Speece, Mark
Address:
Areas: economics, markets

Vosmer, Tom
Address: Research Institute for Cultural Heritage, Curtin University; or: Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Cliff Street, Fremantle, WA 6160, Australia. - Phone: +61 (8) 9430 8439 (work) or 9336 1716 (home). - Fax: +61 (8) 9430 5120 or 9336 1716 (home). - e-mail: PVOSMER@cc.curtin.edu.au
http://www.earthwatch.org/x/Xvosmer.html and http://www.mm.wa.gov.au/Museum
Areas: maritime archaeology, stone anchors, traditional shipbuilding (dhows)

Weisgerber, Gerd (Prof. Dr.)
Address: Deutsches Bergbaumuseum / German Mining Museum, Am Bergbau-Museum 28, 44791 Bochum, GERMANY. - Phone: +49-234-5877116. - Fax: +49-234-5877111.
Areas: archaeology, ancient copper mines

Weismann, Norbert (Dr.)
Address: Nicolaiweg 27, 59174 Kamen, GERMANY. - Phone: +49-2307-74382. - e-mail: 0230774382-0001@t-online.de
Areas: traditional shipbuilding, dhows

Wikan, Unni
Address:
Areas: anthropology, sexuality, society, women

Wilkinson, John C.
Address: School of Geography, Oxford University, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TH, UK.
Areas: geography, social system, falaj / aflaj system, Ibadiya

Wolfe, Andrew W.
Address: Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology, Binghamton University, SUNY, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA. - Phone: +1-607-7296972. - Fax: +1-607-7772477.
Areas: rural development, labour migration

Wynne, Michael J.
Address: Professor, Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. - Phone: +1-734-764 8415. Fax: +1-734-647 0884. - E-mail: mwynne@umich.edu
Areas: marine algae of the Omani and the Macran coast

Yule, Paul (Prof. Dr.)
Address: Am Buechel 77, 53173 Bonn, Germany. - Phone: +49-228-364195. - Fax: +49-228-364195. - e-mail: 0228364195-1@t-online.de
Areas: archaeology

Zawawi, Sharifa M.
Address: CUNY, City College, New York, NY 10031, USA. - Phone: +1-212-6506382, +1-718-3649352. - Fax: +1-212-6506970. - e-mail: smzcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Areas: Arabic language

Zimmermann, Wolfgang (Dr.)
Address: DSE (ZEL), Wielinger Str. 52, 82340 Feldafing, Germany. - Phone: +49-8157-938302. - Fax: +49-8157-938777. - e-mail: w_zimmermann@zelfe.dse.de
Areas: geography, Musandam, community development

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