Contact
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Aga Khan Documentation Center
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MA
02139
United States
ABOUT
Michael A. Toler has been the Archnet.org Content Manager in the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT) since September 2012. Michael has been positioned at the intersection between the digital humanities and Middle Eastern Studies since the mid-1990s. From 2001-2010 he served as the Program Director for the Al Musharaka Initiative of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education. Michael was responsible for the development of content for the Arab Culture and Civilization Online Resource, and for coordinating inter-institutional, collaborative endeavors of faculty, librarians, and technologists using technology to enhance teaching and research on topics relating to Islam, the Middle East, and North Africa. Michael has contributed more than 3,500 images to Archnet and creates most of the help videos and user guides.
Michael received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a Certificate in Translation Studies from Binghamton University (SUNY), after teaching in Morocco at L'Ecole Supérieure Roi Fahd de Traduction and Al Akhawayn University in Morocco. He also holds an MA and BA in English from New York University and Virginia Commonwealth University, respectively. He has published and lectured extensively on digital pedagogy and scholarship, as well as the literature, history, cinema, music, and cyberspace of the Maghreb, and the Middle East more widely.
Michael is Secretary of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), and serves on the board or advisory groups of numerous academic societies and cultural institutions.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Maghreb Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Pedagogy
History Of Architecture
Education
Information Technology/Computing
History Of Architecture
African Studies
Historiography
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Algeria
All Middle East
Islamic World
Maghreb
Morocco
Specialties
Literary Studies
Educational Technology/New Media
Art History
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Moroccan (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2005
| Comp Lit
| Binghamton U-SUNY
MA
| 1990
| English
| NYU
BA
| 1988
| English
| Virginia Commonwealth U
Abstracts
Can The Cloud Make it Rain? On the Social and Political Implications of the Digital Revolution in East-West Relations
