Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty

Heather Akou

Adjunct Associate Professor, Fashion Design

Phone:

(812) 855-5223

Email:

hakou@indiana.edu

Research areas: African (Somali) and Islamic dress; aesthetics; diaspora cultures; Islamic fashion; the role of textiles, dress and the body in religious practices.

Hussein Banai

Adjunct Associate Professor, International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-9111

Email:

hbanai@indiana.edu

Jane Goodman

Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology

Phone:

(812) 855-3232

Email:

janegood@indiana.edu

Research areas: Berber studies; Language, performance, and identity; Textuality and discourse.

Margaret Graves

Adjunct Associate Professor

Phone:

(812) 855-6714

Email:

marggrav@indiana.edu

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.

John Hanson

Adjunct Professor

Phone:

(812) 855-5212

Email:

jhhanson@indiana.edu

Research areas: West African history; Muslim communities; Social/cultural history.

Sarah Imhoff

Adjunct Associate Professor, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies

Email:

seimhoff@indiana.edu

Research areas: Gender and American Jewish History; Race and Jewishness; Rabbinic Literature; American Religious History.  

Feisal Istrabadi

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

Phone:

(812) 856-2987

Email:

fistraba@indiana.edu

Research areas: Constitutional Democracy; Iraqi politics; Processes of building legal and political institutions in countries in transition from dictatorship to democracy.

David McDonald

Adjunct Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Phone:

(812) 855-4124

Email:

davmcdon@indiana.edu

Research areas: Israel/Palestine; Performance ethnography; Social theory; Ethnomusicological study of violence and socio-cultural trauma.

Samuel Obeng

Adjunct Professor, Linguistics

Phone:

(812) 855-8199

Email:

sobeng@indiana.edu

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.

Kaya Şahin

Adjunct Associate Professor, History
Executive Associate Dean, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-0309

Email:

iksahin@indiana.edu

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.