Full-time Faculty

A

  • Amal Amireh

    Amal Amireh

    Associate Professor

    middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality

B

  • Ann S. Birkelbach

    Ann S. Birkelbach

    Religions and Visual Arts, Islam and Arts, Traditional Arts, Crafts and Cultures.

  • Ahsan Butt

    Ahsan Butt

    Associate Professor

    Ethnicity and nationalism, international security, international relations theory, and South Asia

C

D

  • Maria M Dakake

    Maria M Dakake

    Associate Professor

    Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender

  • Robert DeCaroli

    Robert DeCaroli

    Professor

    Arts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia

  • Leslie Dwyer

    Leslie Dwyer

    Associate Professor

E

  • Hatim El-Hibri

    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, platform studies, media theory and history, cultural studies

G

  • Benjamin Gatling

    Benjamin Gatling

    Associate Professor

    narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East

  • Nathaniel Greenberg

    Nathaniel Greenberg

    Interim Director

    Associate Professor

    MENA studies, film studies, media studies, discourse analysis, public diplomacy

H

  • Bassam S. Haddad

    Bassam S. Haddad

    Associate Professor

    Political Economy of Development, Violence and Terrorism and US Foreign Policy, Syria, Authoritarian Rule

  • Sumaiya A. Hamdani

    Sumaiya A. Hamdani

    Research Director

    Associate Professor

    Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history

  • Susan Hirsch

    Susan Hirsch

    Professor

  • Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

    Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

    Professor

    Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

I

  • Yasemin Ipek

    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

M

  • Naglaa F Mahmoud Hussein

    Naglaa F Mahmoud Hussein

    Associate Professor

  • Peter Mandaville

    Peter Mandaville

    Director

    Professor of International Affairs

    Islam, international relations, religion, development

  • Eric McGlinchey

    Eric McGlinchey

    Associate Professor

    Comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, effects of information communication technology on state and society

P

  • John N Paden

    John N Paden

    Robinson Professor

    Relations between Muslim sub-cultures in Nigeria

S

  • Aziz Sachedina

    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

  • Mohammad R. Salama

    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

Y

  • Peiyu Yang

    Peiyu Yang

    Assistant Professor

    Modern Arabic literature; Nahda studies; translation studies; gender studies; Arabic-Chinese comparative literary and cultural studies

  • Huseyin Yilmaz

    Huseyin Yilmaz

    Associate Professor

    Ottoman History; Middle East; Early Modern Political Thought; Translation and Transmission of Knowledge