Affiliated Faculty & Scholars
ANTHROPOLOGY
Ian Hodder: Archaeology, archaeological theory, excavations at Catalhoyuk in central Turkey
Alma Kunanbaeva: Central Asian myth and literature, Kazakh language
Lynn Meskel: Archaeology, word heritage, UNESCO, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa
Kabir Tambar: contemporary Islamic movements, secularism, nationalism, minority politics, Turkey, Middle East
ART & ART HISTORY
Bissera Pentcheva: Byzantine and medieval art
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Elisabeth Boyi : Northern Africa, Maghrebian literature in French
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw: Persian language and medieval Persian literature
Burcu Karahan-Richardson: Ottoman and modern Turkish languages and literatures, Turkish modernization, the novel, narcissism, translation, Turkish cinema
HISTORY
Joel Beinin: Modern Middle East, modern Egypt, Arab-Israeli conflict
Robert Crews: Muslim communities in the Russian empire and Central Asia
Aron Rodrigue: Ottoman Empire, Jews in the Middle East, Sephardi Jewry, Jewish-Muslim interactions
Ali Yaycioglu: Ottoman Empire, history of economic and political Institutions, empires and global history, Modern Turkey
IBERIAN & LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES
Vincent Barletta: Ibero-Muslim culture and literature, Aljamiado literature, empire, ethics
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Lisa Blaydes: Authoritarian regimes, electoral systems, Egypt
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Shahzad Bashir: Sufi Islam, Persianate Islamic societies
Ozgen Felek: Islamic literature, Sufism, dream culture, gender, narratology, art of illumination, miniatures, Ottoman Empire
STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER
Patricia Blessing: Islamic art and architecture, medieval art history and archaeology, Turkey, Anatolia, cross-cultural exchange
STANFORD INTRODUCTORY STUDIES
Ayça Alemdaroglu: Social inequality, social change, youth, class, gender, nationalism, eugenics, Turkey
STANFORD LANGUAGE CENTER
Saadet Ebru Ergul: Turkish Language and Culture, Second Language Acquisition, Turkish Language Testing and Evaluation





