AFFILIATED FACULTY

AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN LANGUAGES
Salem Aweiss -- Arabic CV
Khalil Barhoum -- Arabic, Arabic literature, Arab culture
Ravi Dhillon -- Punjabi
Shahla Fahimi -- Persian
Khalid Obeid -- Arabic
Nalan Ozisik -- Turkish
Ramzi Salti -- Arabic CV

ANTHROPOLOGY
Alma Kunanbaeva -- Central Asian myth and literature, Kazakh language Website , CV

ARCHAEOLOGY
Ian Hodder -- Archaeology, archaeological theory, excavations at Catalhoyuk in central Turkey Website

ART HISTORY
Bissera Pentcheva -- Byzantine and Medieval art Website

FRENCH
Elisabeth Boyi -- Intellectuals and cultural debates in France and the Francophone world Website

HISTORY
Joel Beinin -- Modern Middle East, modern Egypt, Arab-Israeli conflict Website , CV
Robert Crews -- Muslim communities in the Russian empire and Central Asia Website
Sean Hanretta -- Islam in Africa, African history, African religions) Website
Kathryn Miller -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Medieval Spain, medieval science and medicine, commerce and diplomacy, Christian and Islamic law in the Middle Ages Website
Richard Roberts -- Social history of West Africa before and during colonial rule Website
Aron Rodrigue -- Ottoman Empire, Jews in the Middle East, Sephardi Jewry, Jewish-Muslim interactions Website
Priya Satia -- Modern British History, Colonialism and Imperialism Website

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Lisa Blaydes -- Authoritarian Regimes, Electoral Systems, Egypt (On leave, 2008-2010) Website
David Laitin -- Comparative Politics, Ethnic Conflicts, Somalia Website

RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Shahzad Bashir -- Sufi Islam, Persianate Islamic Societies Website , CV
Robert Gregg -- early Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations of scriptures, religions of late antiquity Website
Behnam Sadeghi -- Islamic Religion, Islam's first two centuries Website

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE
Vincent Barletta -- Ibero-Muslim Culture, Andalusi Literature, Aljamiado Literature, Early Modern Iberia and the Maghreb Website

AFFILIATED SCHOLARS

Michael Cooperson (Visiting Professor, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies; Professor of Arabic, UCLA) Website
John B. Dunlop (Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Interim Director) -- Russia and Islam Website
John Eilts (Curator, Islamic and Middle Eastern Collections, Stanford University Libraries) CV
Donald Emmerson (Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies) -- History, politics, economics of Southeast Asia Website
Stéphane Lacroix (Postdoctoral Fellow, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies & Political Science) -- Islamic Activism, Salafism, Saudi Arabia
Gail Lapidus (Senior Fellow, Emerita, Freeman Spogli Institute) -- Ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union, the Russian-Chechen war, Soviet society, politics and foreign policy Website
Alan Mikhail (Mellon Scholar in the Humanities, Stanford University; Assistant Professor, Department of History, Yale University ) -- Ottoman Empire, Early-Modern Islamic History, Environmental History, History of Islamic Science and Medicine Website
Abbas Milani (Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Director of the Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies) -- Islam and the West Website

VISITING SCHOLARS & AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS

Ayça Alemdaroglu (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Cambridge) -- social inequality, social change, youth, class, gender, nationalism, eugenics, Turkey CV
Zeynep Atalay (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park) -- Political Sociology, Globalization, Civil Society, Social Movements, Political Islam, Sociology of Religion and Culture CV
Nosheen Ali (ACLS/ Mellon Early Career Fellow 2009-2010) -- anthropology of the state, religion, and development, social movements, citizenship, sectarianism, Northern Pakistan, South Asia
Ann Marie Baylouny (Assistant Professor, National Security Affairs Department, Naval Postgraduate School) -- Institutional creation and grassroots organizing for collective goods and services; Islamism, social mobilization, and the influence of constituencies; youth, Islamist media, Islamist women, and Hizbullah ; Refugees, diasporas, conflict, and institutions; Middle East Website

PROGRAM STAFF

Burçak Keskin-Kozat (Associate Director) -- sociology of religion, modernization, gender, nationalism and empires, comparative historical sociology, Cold War, United States, Turkey, Middle East Website
Azim Nanji (Senior Associate Director, Lecturer in Religious Studies) -- Religion, Islamic history and traditions, Ismailism