
Adjunct Associate Professor, Fashion Design
Research areas: African (Somali) and Islamic dress; aesthetics; diaspora cultures; Islamic fashion; the role of textiles, dress and the body in religious practices.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Fashion Design
Research areas: African (Somali) and Islamic dress; aesthetics; diaspora cultures; Islamic fashion; the role of textiles, dress and the body in religious practices.
Adjunct Associate Professor, International Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology
Research areas: Berber studies; Language, performance, and identity; Textuality and discourse.
Margaret Graves
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research areas: Medieval art and architecture of the Islamic world, Nineteenth- and twentieth-century craft in the Middle East and North Africa, Faking and forgery, Orientalism and the historiography of Islamic art history.
Adjunct Professor
Research areas: West African history; Muslim communities; Social/cultural history.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Research areas: Gender and American Jewish History; Race and Jewishness; Rabbinic Literature; American Religious History.
Adjunct Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
The Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor in Global Strategic Studies
Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East
Research areas: Constitutional Democracy; Iraqi politics; Processes of building legal and political institutions in countries in transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Research areas: Israel/Palestine; Performance ethnography; Social theory; Ethnomusicological study of violence and socio-cultural trauma.
Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
Research areas: African political and juridical discourse; African anthroponomy; language policy and language attitudes in Africa; pidgins and creoles; pragmatics of prosody; African languages documentation; evaluation and testing in African languages.
Adjunct Associate Professor, History
Executive Associate Dean, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
Research areas: The institutional and ideological foundations of the Ottoman imperial praxis; Comparative studies of early modern Eurasian empires; Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography; Ottoman-Safavid rivalry; Inter-cultural and inter-religious exchanges in early modern Eurasia.