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Dept of History of Art
global modern art, Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art
Faculty profile Salar Mameni
Dept of Ethnic Studies
art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures
Minoo Moallem 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
Ussama Makdisi Ussama Makdisi
Dept of History
Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East
Adam Benkato Adam Benkato
Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives
headshot of Benjamin Porter Benjamin Porter
Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies
Stefania Pandolfo Stefania Pandolfo
Dept of Anthropology
cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, Maghreb, mental illness
Cihan Tugal Cihan Tugal
Dept of Sociology
political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography
Elora Shehabuddin Elora Shehabuddin
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, left-wing politics in the Global South, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States
Keith Feldman Keith Feldman
Dept of Ethnic Studies
critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities
Wali Ahmadi Wali Ahmadi
Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan
Prof. Vinod K. Aggarwal picture Vinod K. Aggarwal
Dept of Political Science
political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling
Photo of Paola Bacchetta, dark eyes, black shoulder length hair, brown skin. Paola Bacchetta
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil
Maher_Jordan Lisa Maher
Dept of Anthropology
archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistory, geoarchaeology, landscape use, stone tools technology, emergence of social complexity, ancient technology
Headshot of Ying Cui Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed
Dept of Comparative Literature
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