Shawnee State University

Shawnee State is a student-focused public university offering a highly personalized, affordable, and accessible education dedicated to the exploration of emerging technologies and emerging ideas. Shawnee State was founded in 1986. Located along the Ohio River in historic Portsmouth, Ohio, the university has over 300 full and part time faculty members and 4,400 full and part-time students with a 1:18 faculty to student ratio. Dr. Amr Al-Azm, Associate professor of Middle East history and anthropology at Shawnee State University, (SSU) is SSU's principal coordinator for the Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria and Iraq Project (SHOSI).