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Faculty & Staff

James G. Hart, Ph.D.candidate

Ph.D. candidate, Assistant Professor

Non-departmental General Education Faculty

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

 

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Phone: +996 (312) 915000 ext. 480

Room: 415

 

James Hart is an Assistant Professor of the non-degree General Education program at the American University of Central Asia and a Ph.D. candidate in Ancient Religions at Leiden University (Netherlands). He holds a Master of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University (2001, USA) and a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Languages from the University of Montana (1998, USA). 

James joined AUCA in 2018 as a full-time lecturer in General Education. Before AUCA, he was an instructor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimania (AUIS), where he taught a three to four-semester introduction to the liberal arts/introduction to the humanities course sequence called ‘Civilization,’ as well as ‘World Religions,’ ‘the History of the Middle East,’ and ‘Empires: Origins.’ He also taught university-level composition courses. Before AUIS, James taught at the American University of Afghanistan, offering composition courses, introduction to humanities courses, and 'the Humanities of the Islamic World' courses. 

  • Outstanding Graduate Student in the Persian Language, Indiana University, 2000
  • Outstanding Graduate Student in the Arabic Language, Indiana University, 2000
  • The Watkins Scholarship, University of Montana, 1998
  • Pre-Islamic Religions of Central Asia, especially Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, and Eastern Christianity
  • “Mani” in The Encyclopedia of World Religious Figures, edited by Scott E. Hendrix and                   Uchenna Okeja, ABC-CLIO, 2018
  • First Year Seminar I, English Composition for Liberal Arts I
  • First Year Seminar II, English Composition for Liberal Arts II
  • SYS/SS/HUM 230: the Gone Religion: Manicheaism in Central Asia
  • SYS/SS/HUM 276:  the Pre-Islamic Religions of Central Asia
  • From Alexander to Achilles: Ancient Greek History, MA level

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