Anneka Lenssen Dept of History of Art global modern art, Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art
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 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 Dept of History Ottoman history, Arab history, U.S.-Arab relations, U.S. missionary work in the Middle East
Adam Benkato Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives
Benjamin Porter Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies
Stefania Pandolfo Dept of Anthropology cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, 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
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 Dept of Ethnic Studies critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities
Wali Ahmadi Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan
Vinod K. Aggarwal Dept of Political Science political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling
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
Lisa Maher Dept of Anthropology archaeology, hunter-gatherers, prehistory, geoarchaeology, landscape use, stone tools technology, emergence of social complexity, ancient technology