CMES welcomes Outreach Director Sarah Meyrick

CMES is very pleased to welcome, after an extensive search, our new Director of Outreach Sarah Meyrick. A Massachusetts native, Meyrick has BAs in political science and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MA in Near Eastern studies from New York University. She has travelled extensively in the region and is conversant in Arabic. Her Senior Honors thesis, “Neoliberalism in a Digital Political Age: Queen Rania of Jordan’s YouTube Channel,” and Master’s thesis, “How Democracy Promotion is Practiced in Post-2003 Iraq,” were presented at the 2010 and 2011 MESA annual meetings.

Meyrick joins CMES from the Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) at George Washington University, where she was responsible for K-12 outreach and for managing IMES’s U.S. Department of Education Title VI NRC grant. Meyrick will continue to build upon the excellent work of the CMES Outreach Center as she looks for ways to expand its reach to even greater constituencies in the New England region and beyond. A particular focus of Sarah’s work here will be to continue to broaden relationships with area K-12 teachers, community college instructors, and the general public as we enter the next competition for renewal of our own Department of Education Title VI NRC grant in 2014.