Occupation
Librarian/Info Specialist
Contact
Primary Phone: (954) 415-3505
Secondary Phone: (203) 432-1373
Near East Collection
Yale University Library
130 Wall Street
New Haven
CT
06512
United States
ABOUT
Roberta L. Dougherty, who holds an M.A. in Contemporary Arab Studies from Georgetown University and an M.I.L.S. from the University of Michigan, is the Librarian for Middle East Studies at the Yale University Library. She has lectured on and published her research on the history of printing and publishing in the Middle East, the social construction of performance in Egypt, the expressive culture of the Arab Spring, and Egyptian musical film. For the last three years Robin has researched the life and legacy of Edward Elbridge Salisbury through archival and manuscript collections held at Yale and elsewhere, culminating in a groundbreaking exhibit on Salisbury in Sterling Memorial Library that was on display during the fall of 2016. She has also lectured on Salisbury’s life and work at scholarly conferences in Europe and the United States. In 2016 she was awarded the David H. Partington Award by the Middle East Librarians Association for excellence in and contributions to the field of Middle East librarianship.
Discipline
Library Science
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arabic
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Dance
Ethnomusicology
Folklore/Folklife
Gender/Women's Studies
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Music
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Specialties
Mass Media And Pop Cult In The Arab World
Music
Performing Arts
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
MILS
| 1993
| Sch of Info/Lib Stds
| U of Michigan
MA
| 1988
| CCAS
| Georgetown University
BA
| 1982
| Oriental Studies
| University of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
"Smiling and waving witty banners": the expressive culture of the Egyptian revolution
Salisbury and Arabic in New Haven and Beyond
Salisbury & Oriental Typography in the JAOS: Visualizing Scholarly Legitimacy through Script
Song in Mahfuz’ Bayn al-Qasrayn: Recreating and Appreciating the Diegetic “Soundtrack” of a Modern Egyptian Novel
