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Ussama Makdisi

Dept of History

Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East

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Anneka Lenssen

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art

Benjamin Porter

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies

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

Charles Hirschkind

Dept of Anthropology

Islam, anthropology, religious practice, media technologies, political community, Middle East, Europe

Stefania Pandolfo

Dept of Anthropology

cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, the Maghreb, mental illness

Cihan Tugal

Dept of Sociology

political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

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, Iranian Studies

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

Mark Brilliant

Dept of History

20th century U.S. history, with a focus on political economy, civil rights, education, law, the west

Sheldon Zedeck

Dept of Psychology

statistics, organization, psychology, research methodology, industrial, social psychology, personnel, cross-cultural work values, decision-making research, work and family issues, the work values of Chinese employees

Shannon Steen

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies

David Henkin

Dept of History

history, U.S. History, urban history, cultural history, History of Time

Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

Dora Zhang

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature

Ahmad Diab

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Arabic literature, translation studies, Arabic philology, postcolonial studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern Cinema

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

School of Law

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history

Maura Nolan

Dept of English

drama, Middle English literature, Renaissance and Early Modern literature

Adam Benkato

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives

John Lie

Dept of Sociology

social theory, political economy, East Asia

Jonas Wellendorf

Dept of Scandinavian

Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)

Miryam Sas

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of Film and Media

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias

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Xandra Ibarra

Dept of Art Practice

performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, feminist and queer theory, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance

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