Affiliated Faculty

Ismail Alatas 
Assistant Professor; Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Major Interests: History and Anthropology of Islam; Islamic Law; Sufism; Mobility; Pilgrimage; Indian Ocean; Southeast Asia; South Arabia; Modernity and Secularism; Semiotics; Politics of Space; Temporality.

Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Professor; History

Major Interests: History and Theory; Semiotic Anthropology; Material Culture; Media and Communication; Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages; Medieval France; Medieval Sign Theory; Medieval Diplomatics and Sigillography; Latin and Old French Paleography.

Barbara Browning
Associate Professor; Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies

Major Interests: Brazil and the African diaspora; dance ethnography; race, gender and postcoloniality; spirit possession and healing.

Professor; Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History

Major Interests: American Jewish history, American immigration history and women's history.

Georgina Dopico
Associate Professor; Spanish and Portuguese 

Major Interests: Early-modern Spanish literatyres and cultures; cultural history; the body and anatomy; biopolitics; human and animal studies; gender studies; translation studies; canon formation and libraries; nation and empire; transatlantic studies; Cervantes.

Daniel E. Fleming
Professor; Hebrew and Judaic Studies    

Major Interests: Assyriology; Hebrew Bible interpretation and cultural history; ancient Syria; Emar; ancient religion; interplay of ancient Near Eastern societies.

Katherine Fleming
Professor; History

Major Interests: A specialist on modern Greece, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, she is most recently author of Greece: A Jewish History, which won several prizes, among them the National Jewish Book Award and the Runciman Award.

Michael Gilsenan
Professor; Anthropology

Major Interests: Anthropology and sociology of Islam, history and anthropology, narrative theory, anthropology of power and violence, urban studies, cultural representation.

Faye Ginsburg
Professor; Anthropology

Major Interests: Social anthropology; ethnographic film; ethnography of media; indigenous media; social movements in the United States; Disability.

Alex P.  Jassen
Associate Professor; Hebrew and Judaic Studies

Major Interests: Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple Judaism, Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, Biblical Interpretation, History of Law, Religion and Violence.

Deborah Kapchan
Associate Professor; Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies

Major Interests: Narrative, poetics, feminist theory, music, aesthetics, North Africa and the Middle East.

Marion Holmes Katz
Professor; Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Major Interests: Islamic law (shari'a), gender, and ritual.

Aisha Khan
Associate Professor; Anthropology

Major Interests: Caribbean, Latin America, race and ethnicity, religion (particularly obeah, Islam, Afro-Atlantic religions), theory and method in diaspora studies, creolization.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Professor; Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies

Major Interests: Jewish cultural performance, aesthetics of everyday life, tourism, museums, and heritage.