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.
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.