Full-time Faculty
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Amireh Amireh
Associate Professor
middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality
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Ann S. Birkelbach
Islamic Art & Architecture, Sacred Art of World Religions, Sacred Arts of Islam, Traditional Crafts and Cultures.
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Ahsan Butt
Associate Professor
Ethnicity and nationalism, international security, international relations theory, and South Asia
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Maria M Dakake
Interim Director
Associate Professor
Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender
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Robert D. DeCaroli
Professor
Interactions of early South Asian Buddhism with popular religious practice, the origin of the Buddha image and the social, political, religious factors that led to its codification and spread
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Leslie Dwyer
Associate Professor
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Hatim El-Hibri
Associate Professor
Global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, media history and theory, cultural studies
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Heba F. El-Shazli
Associate Professor
Democratization, Authoritarian Regimes and Transitions, Civil Society and Global Social Movements, Arabic Language and Culture, Islam and Politics, and the Labor Movement in the Middle East
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Benjamin Gatling
Associate Professor
narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
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Nathaniel Greenberg
Associate Professor
MENA studies; comparative literature; discourse analysis; film&media
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Bassam S. Haddad
Associate Professor
Political Economy of Development, Violence and Terrorism and US Foreign Policy, Syria, Authoritarian Rule
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Sumaiya A. Hamdani
Associate Professor
Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history
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Susan Hirsch
Professor
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Cortney Hughes Rinker
Associate Professor
Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States
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Yasemin Ipek
Assistant Professor
Activism and civil society, crisis, political imagination, citizenship and belonging, decoloniality, sectarianism, nationalism, class, refugees and humanitarianism, migration, Middle East and North Africa, the United States
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Peter Mandaville
Director
Professor of International Affairs
Islam, globalization, development, international relations
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Eric McGlinchey
Associate Professor
Comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, effects of information communication technology on state and society
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Aziz Sachedina
IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies
Religion and Politics; Islamic Law and Ethics; Sunni and Shiite Theologies; Biomedical Ethics; Human Rights; Democracy and Pluralism; Spirituality and Mysticism
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Mohammad R. Salama
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor
Classical Arabic; Qur’anic Studies; Comparative Literature; Intellectual History, Postcolonialism
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Huseyin Yilmaz
Associate Professor
Ottoman History; Middle East; Early Modern Political Thought; Translation and Transmission of Knowledge