Faculty

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES

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

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Ian Hodder (archaeology, archaeological theory; excavations at Catalhoyuk in central Turkey)
Alma Kunanbaeva (Visiting Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin, 2004-2006; Central Asian myth and literature; Kazakh language)
Purnima Mankekar (ethnology; the role of media in understandings of womanhood, nationalism, popular culture)

FRENCH
Elisabeth Boyi (intellectuals and cultural debates in France and the Francophone world)

LANGUAGES (Language Center; African and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures)
Salem Aweiss (Arabic)
Khalil Barhoum (Arabic, Arabic literature, Arab culture)
Ravi Dhillon (Punjabi)
Shahla Fahimi (Persian)
Nalan Ozisik (Turkish)
Ramzi Salti (Arabic)

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Lisa Blaydes (Authoritarian Regimes, Electoral Systems, Egypt)
David Laitin (Comparative Politics, Ethnic Conflicts, Somalia)

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Shahzad Bashir (Sufi Islam, Persianate Islamic Societies)
Robert Gregg (early Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations of scriptures; religions of late antiquity)
Linda Hess (history of Hindu and Muslim life in South Asia)
Behnam Sadeghi (Islamic Religion, Islam's first two centuries)

SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Vincent Barletta (Ibero-Muslim Culture, Andalusi Literature, Aljamiado Literature, Early Modern Iberia and the Maghreb)

Affiliated Scholars

John Eilts (Curator, Islamic and Middle Eastern Collections, Stanford University Libraries)
Donald Emmerson (Sr. Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; history, politics, economics of Southeast Asia)
Abbas Milani (Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Iranian Studies Program; Islam and the West)
John B. Dunlop (Sr. Fellow, Hoover Institution, Interim Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Russia and Islam)