Hilary Falb Kalisman awarded CHA fellowship
Hilary Falb Kalisman was recently awarded a Center for Humanities & the Arts Faculty Fellowship. The application closely reflects external applications of the and the .Ìý
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Prof. Kalisman's project description:
"Standardized Testing: An Imperial and National Legacy of the Modern Middle East" recovers the origins and consequences of school examinations: one of the most important, durable, pervasive, and under-analyzed legacies of imperialism in the Middle East.Ìý Focusing on Britain's Middle Eastern Mandates (Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Transjordan/Jordan), I argue that standardized tests outlasted the governments that set exams in motion because they could be used both as a repressive tactic and as a promise, albeit often illusory, of social mobility. This project brings to light the politics behind standardized tests, in one of the regions of the world where testing holds the most importance."