Carel

My blogs

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Location	Oakland, CA
Introduction	I surprised even myself, turning out to be a professor of Humanities at San Francisco State University. This follows many false starts or short forays in art, design, Sociology and Scandinavian. I’m currently faculty in Middle East and Islamic Studies, having studied Islamic Art History at UCLA (Ph.D. 1998.) I worked in Turkey on memory and architecture and have written a book about it. (Ask me.) My next surprise was that in 2008, I married the guy who would have been my HS sweetheart if I’d only known him then: Fred Donner, a professor at U. Chicago in Middle East History. We travel a lot. Back and Forth. My 2 daughters are repairing the world: Alanya (with Mike Jones) as a mediation counselor in inner city Jr. Highs; Rumeli (with Cyrus Comiskey) as a social worker with at risk Spanish speaking immigrants. Three grandsons: Selim and Naveed (Alanya) and Sandriz (Rumeli.) This blog follows the civilian me.
Favorite Books	My always favorite: The Crock of Gold by James Stephens. The language is so authentic to this imaginative world. My own god-Pan-appears.