Kate Mackay
Associate Director
Kate Mackay comes to CERCLL from the University of Arizona's Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, another Title VI Resource Center, where she was Assistant
Director for four years. She has an undergraduate degree in Archaeology from the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the
University of Arizona. Kate's research focuses on the connections between various
regions in the eastern Mediterranean and she has taught college level courses related to
the history and culture of the Middle East, both ancient and modern. She also led two
Fulbright-Hays curriculum-building study seminars that took groups of K-12 teachers
on month-long study tours to Cyprus.
