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A Family Affair: Harvard’s Director of Moroccan Studies in Residence at Overseas Research Center
Dr. Susan Gilson Miller, Head of Moroccan Studies at Harvard University, spent several weeks as scholar-in-residence at the Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM; part of the American Institute for Maghreb Studies). She is the recipient of a multi-year Fulbright grant to study the nature of cosmopolitanism in Tangier. An Arabist with long ties to Morocco and with the academic community, Dr. Miller was a recipient of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ Multi-Country Research Fellowship in 1998 with her project entitled: The Jewish Quarter of the Mediterranean City: An Architectural and Historical Study. During her most recent stay, she provided useful advice on research library operations, providing a list of materials and books that she recommended TALM purchase. Dr. Miller was joined by her husband, Mr. David Miller, a specialist on micro credit programs, who assisted Mr. Thor Kuniholm, director of TALM, in developing a grant proposal to provide training to the staff of the Rotary Club’s Micro Credit Foundation of the North. Mr. Miller also met with Embassy and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officials in Rabat regarding TALM’s grant submission. TALM invited USAID micro credit specialist, Greta Greathouse, to Tangier where Mr. Kuniholm arranged a meeting with Micro Credit Foundation officials to discuss possible areas of cooperation. During their stay, the Millers have contributed greatly to the Tangier American Legation Museum.

Dr. Susan Miller seated with TALM President Dr. I. William Zartman (l-r)
at the Tangier American Legation Museum’s April Seminars.
Highlight Date: April 20, 2005