Hasan M. El-Shamy

Who is Hasan M. El-Shamy?

Hasan M. El-Shamy is a Professor of Folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the African Studies Program at Indiana University. He received a B.A. with Honors in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt in 1959. He then completed an Intensive Graduate Program in Psychology and Education from Ain-Shams University in 1959-1960. Later he received an M.A. in Folklore from Indiana University in 1964, as well as a Ph.D. in Folklore with Interdisciplinary training in Folklore, Psychology, and Anthropology from Indiana University in 1967.

El-Shamy taught as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology for a year at Morehead State University before becoming the Director of the Archives at the Folklore Center of the Ministry of Culture in Cairo, Egypt a role that he held from 1967-1972. During this period he was also an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at The American University in Cairo. In 1972 he returned to Indiana University as a member of the faculty in the Folklore Institute.