Biography
Professor O'Leary is Program Director and Scholar-in-Residence at the AU Center for Global Peace.  Since 1994, she has been on the faculty of the School of International Service, International Peace and Conflict Resolution Division, teaching courses on culture and society in the Middle East.  Professor O'Leary has conducted extensive research in the Middle East on the politics of identity in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iran, and Lebanon.  Currently, she is focused on developing new curricula on the Middle East and Islam for the social studies at the precollegiate level.  In 1994 she received a 2-year grant from the United States Institute of Peace to develop secondary level curricula on the role of ethnic identity in international conflict situations.  more recently, she lead a study tour to Oman for American high school teachers who are nationally recognized experts in the field of curriculum development for the social studies.  Expertise: Middle East Culture and Society, Ethnicity, Gender, Iran, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula States, Tribalism, Teacher Training, and Curriculum Development for the Social Studies.

Recent Courses Taught

• Post-Saddam Iraq
  

Research Interest

• Politics of Identity
• Nationalism, Ethnicity and Conflict
• Language, Culture and Society
• Middle East
• Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Arab Gulf States