Wali Ahmadi Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan
Paola Bacchetta Dept of Gender and Women's Studies gender and sexuality, global racialities, social theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, alliances, right-wing movements; geographic specializations outside the U.S.:France, India
Adam Benkato Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives
Mark Danner Dept of English School of Journalism Central America, politics, Balkans, foreign affairs, journalism, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, voting and elections, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film
Ahmad Diab Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Arabic literature, translation studies, Arabic philology, Middle Eastern cinemo, post-colonial politics of culture and representation
Samera Esmeir Dept of Rhetoric critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism
Emily Gottreich Dept of History Dept of International and Area Studies Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic urban studies, Jewish history, Morocco, North Africa, Sephardic Studies
Atreyee Gupta Dept of History of Art global modern art, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art
Charles Hirschkind Dept of Anthropology Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe
Anneka Lenssen Dept of History of Art global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art
Rita Lucarelli Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Egyptology, Egyptian, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion
Ussama Makdisi Dept of History Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East
Minoo Moallem Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, and Iranian Studies
Laura Nader Dept of Anthropology Latin America, Mexico, social anthropology, comparative ethnography of law, dispute resolution, conflict, controlling processes, comparative family organizations, the anthropology of professional mind-sets, ethnology of the Middle East, contemporary U.S.
Stefania Pandolfo Dept of Anthropology cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, the Maghreb, mental illness
Christine Philliou Dept of History Mediterranean, Modern Greece and Turkey, Middle East, Ottoman Empire political and social history, Turkey and Greece as parts of the post-Ottoman world
Benjamin Porter Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, anthropology, Heritage, tourism, and Museum Studies
Sugata Ray Dept of History of Art Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history
Elora Shehabuddin Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States
Cihan Tugal Dept of Sociology political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography