History and Anthropology of Islam; Islamic Law; Sufism; Mobility; Pilgrimage; Indian Ocean; Southeast Asia; South Arabia; Modernity and Secularism; Semiotics; Imaginary & Politics of Space; Temporality
Faculty
Ismail Fajrie Alatas
Ali Adeeb Alnaemi
Middle Eastern politics, media, and methods of teaching Arabic language
Yass Alizadeh
Persian language and literature
Ghada Badawi
Arabic, Foreign Language Assessment, Foreign Language Testing and Using Technology to Create Interactive Materials
Abigail Balbale
Islamic rulership and the caliphate; Art and Material Culture of the Islamic world; Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib; Coexistence and violence among Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Mediterranean
She was awarded a Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship for Scholars (CASA III). She will spend Spring 2024 at the Arab American language Institute in Meknes, Morocco.
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
Early Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Iran, Sunni-Shiite Divide, Sects and Sectarianism in the Middle East, Empire and Identity Formation in the Middle East
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
African Diaspora, Global History, Early Modern and Modern Chinese History, Asian and European Islam, Religion and World History, Middle Eastern History, History of Geography, Arab-Jewish and Mizrahi History
Rajni Bhargava
Heritage learners, differentiation in the classrooms, teaching Hindi poetry and developing debating skills at the advanced level.
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Sibel Erol
Turkish Language; role of writing in teaching language; the uses of literature in language teaching; the novel; nationalism; women authors; postmodernism; masculinities; film
Hala Halim
Modern Arabic, English and Anglophone literatures; postcolonial theory; cosmopolitanism; Mediterraneanism and Levantinism; South-South comparatism; Nahda and comparative modernities; Translation Studies; travel literature; globalization; urban cultures
Amani Hassan
Modern Arabic Language, Egyptian colloquial, teaching Arabic as a foreign language, the importance of culture in language teaching, translation , Egyptian women authors, Egyptian cuisine.
Khaled Al Hilli
Asli Igsiz
Political violence, eugenics, humanism, spatial segregation and forced migration, and cultural policy
Gabriela Nik. Ilieva
Gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit, Medieval Indian poetics, historical Indo-Aryan linguistics, foreign language pedagogy
Marion Holmes Katz
Islamic law (shari'a), gender, and ritual
Arang Keshavarzian
Comparative politics of the Middle East; political economy; modern Iran, Persian Gulf; transnationalism, imperialism; urban politics
Zachary Lockman
Modern Middle Eastern history
Ali Mirsepassi
Contemporary social theory; sociology of religion; Islam and modernity; Middle Eastern societies and cultures; postcolonial studies; knowledge, citizenship, and geography; critical globalization
Tahira Naqvi
Urdu language and literature, South Asian literature, translation, language pedagogy
Sara Pursley
Modern Middle East history; Iraq; economic development and modernization theory; gender and sexuality; postcolonial studies; histories of psychology and selfhood; conceptions of time and space; state formation and sovereignty; US empire.
Ella Shohat
Arab-Jews and Memory; Representation of Palestine and Israel; Hebrew Mizrahi Literature and Cinema; Iraqi Culture; Arab-American and Arab Diasporic Studies; Media/Cultural Studies; Visual Culture; Gender Studies; Postcolonial Studies.
Helga Tawil-Souri
Israel/Palestine; Media and Cultural Politics; Geography, Borders, Infrastructure; Globalization
ADJUNCT, AFFILIATED, & VISITING FACULTY
Sinan Antoon
pre-modern Arabo-Islamic culture; classical and modern Arabic poetry; the Arabic novel; gender and sexuality; postcolonial theory; contemporary Arab culture and politics
Finbarr Barry Flood
Art and architecture of the Islamic world, Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture, Theories and practices of image-making, Technologies of Representation, Art historical historiography, methodology, and theory, Orientalism
Michael Gomez
West Africa, African Diaspora, Islam, Slavery, Social and Cultural Transformations.
Deborah Kapchan
Narrative, poetics, feminist theory, music, aesthetics, North Africa and the Middle East.
Sarah J Pearce
Hebrew and Arabic literature of Iberia; mester de clerecía; 12th- and 13th-century Castile; the translation movement; history and literature of the "tres culturas"; literary representations of Alexander the Great; history of literature; historical readings of literature; codicology
Peter J. Chelkowski
Literature, mysticism, Islamic studies and performing arts of the Middle East.
Ahmed Ferhadi
Second Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Language Testing and pedagogical applications of technology.
Michael Gilsenan
Anthropology and sociology of Islam, history and anthropology, narrative theory, anthropology of power and violence, urban studies, cultural representation
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
Modern Persian fiction: Stylistics and Aesthetics; Sensory Language in Persian Literature
Robert McChesney
Early modern history of Iran and Central Asia.
Mona N. Mikhail
Modern and contemporary Arabic language and literature; gender studies
Everett K. Rowson
Medieval Islamic literature, law, theology, gender and society
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Arabic Faculty
Ali Adeeb Alnaemi
Middle Eastern politics, media, and methods of teaching Arabic language
Ghada Badawi
Arabic, Foreign Language Assessment, Foreign Language Testing and Using Technology to Create Interactive Materials
Amani Hassan
Modern Arabic Language, Egyptian colloquial, teaching Arabic as a foreign language, the importance of culture in language teaching, translation , Egyptian women authors, Egyptian cuisine.
Khaled Al Hilli
Hindi Faculty
Rajni Bhargava
Heritage learners, differentiation in the classrooms, teaching Hindi poetry and developing debating skills at the advanced level.
Gabriela Nik. Ilieva
Gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit, Medieval Indian poetics, historical Indo-Aryan linguistics, foreign language pedagogy
Persian Faculty
Yass Alizadeh
Persian language and literature
Turkish Faculty
Sibel Erol
Turkish Language; role of writing in teaching language; the uses of literature in language teaching; the novel; nationalism; women authors; postmodernism; masculinities; film
Urdu Faculty
Tahira Naqvi
Urdu language and literature, South Asian literature, translation, language pedagogy