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   Dr. Sally Totman

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Position Assoc HOS (Teaching & Learning)
Email sally.totman@deakin.edu.au
Area School of International and Political Studies
Phone +61 3 924 43926
Campus Burwood
Location D.4.17
Role and profile Sally joined Deakin in February 2007 having taught Middle East politics, International Relations, and Australian foreign policy at Macquarie University in Sydney for 9 years.

Sally is the Associate Head of School (Teaching & Learning) and the Convener of the Middle East Studies program at Deakin. In addition, Sally is the Campus Chair of the Faculty of Arts & Education Academic Progress and Discipline Committee.
Teaching responsibilities Sally is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Studies and Unit Chair of:

* AIE 153 - Introduction to the Middle East (T1)
* AIE 154 - The Modern Middle East (T2)
* AIE 255 - Middle East Politics (T1)
* AIE 363 - The Politics of Terrorism (T2)
* AIR 745 - International Relations of the Middle East (T2)

Middle East Major Sequence Information
Research interests * US foreign policy towards the Middle East
* Libya and the other so-called 'Rogue States'
* Hollywood film, popular culture and the role of public opinion
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 * Academic Progress and Discipline Committee, Burwood Campus Chair (July 2009 -present)
* Faculty of Arts and Education Admission and Selection Committee (2009 - present)
* Faculty of Arts and Education Teaching and Learning Committee (2009 - present)
* Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty Board (2008-present)
* Academic Progress and Discipline Committee (2008-present)
* Vocational Training and Education Committee (2008-2009)
* Minter Ellison Seminar Series Coordinator (2007-present)
Awards * Winner of the 2006 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for Excellence in Teaching Evaluations, The Division of Humanities, Macquarie University.

* Highly Commended in the 2006 Macquarie University Innovation Awards in the category of Innovation in Teaching and Learning for the Simulations.

Qualifications * Doctor of Philosophy.
* Master of Politics and Public Policy.
* Bachelor of Arts (Psychology).
Memberships * Australia Middle East Research Forum (AMERF), Co-Founder
* Gulf/2000 Project, Columbia University
* Project EnRoLE
* Champlain College Global Modules
* Middle East Studies Association of North America

Conferences "In The Green Zone: 40 years with Colonel Qaddafi"
APSA: Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference.
Sydney, Australia. 28-30 September 2009.

"Enhancing the student experience: Online role-play in tertiary education"
Institute of Teaching and Learning Conference.
Melbourne, Australia. 18-19 June 2009.

"The Rise and Decline of Libya as a Rogue State"
OCIS: Oceanic Conference on International Studies.
Brisbane, Australia. 2-4 July 2008.

"Simulating the Politics of the Middle East On Campus"
e-Learning Symposium 2006.
Melbourne, Australia. 3-5 December 2006.

"American Demonology: Libya and Hollywood"
WOCMES-2: World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies 2.
Amman, Jordan. 11-16 June 2006.

Research link View Deakin associated research data
Publications

BOOKS:

Sally Totman. "How Hollywood Projects Foreign Policy", Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009.

Sally Totman and Scott Burchill. (eds) "Global Crises and Risks", Oxford University Press, 2008.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Sally Totman. 'The West and the Rest' in Totman and Burchill (eds), "Global Crises and Risks", Oxford University Press, 2008.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS:

Sally Totman Mat Hardy. "In The Green Zone: 40 years with Colonel Qaddafi", September 2009.

Sally Totman and Mat Hardy. "The Rise and Decline of Libya as a Rogue State", July 2008.

Sally Totman (ed). "The Journalist and Islam: Competing agendas, political correctness and the war on terror", Centre for Middle East and North African Studies, Macquarie University, 2007.

Additional URLs

Australian Middle East Research Forum (AMERF)

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