Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Quranic studies; hadith studies; intersection of religious and political thought; perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Islam and religious pluralism.
Associate Professor, Fashion Design, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
Socio-cultural history of dress and textile in African and Islamic cultures; fashion theory; aesthetics; the formation of ethnic and religious identities; and textile design.
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Program Director, Arabic Flagship Program
Arabic linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax; teaching Arabic as a second language; translation.
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Modern Arabic literature and culture; comparative literature and cultural studies; Arab Spring autobiography; literary theory.
Professor of Practice, Central Eurasian Studies
Mongol China social and political history; Islam in Imperial and contemporary China, with particular focus on the Sinophone Muslim (Huizu) community; halal economics in contemporary China; historic and contemporary Islamic linkages between southwest China and southeast Asia.
Associate Professor, Anthropology
The politics of social production and value; material culture; visuality; gender; Islam; globalization; focus on Senegal and Senegalese migrants in New York City and Chicago.
Chair and Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
The development of societies, especially sectarian communities, in Central Asia, the Near East, and South Asia studied through interdisciplinary approaches involving history, religious studies, international affairs, politics, anthropology, archeology, language, literature, and numismatics; focuses on Iranian and Persian Studies, Indian subcontinental studies, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and Manichaeism.
Associate Librarian, Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Central Eurasian Studies
Manuscripts of Muslim Eurasia.
Professor, History
The religious imagination and social initiatives of Muslims in western Africa; current focus on the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, a trans-national Islamic movement that gained a significant following in twentieth-century Ghana; Muslim Sufi movements in nineteenth-century Senegal and Mali.
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Medieval Islamic theology and law; biography and Muslim historiography; Islam in Indonesia.
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Central Asia, esp. Uzbekistan, under Soviet rule and since independence; women, gender, and social change; agriculture and collectivization; oral history; Central Asia and the Cold War.
Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature and Central Eurasian Studies
Persian literature and literary history, esp. literature of the 16th and 17th centuries in Iran, India, and Central Asia; literature, architecture, and topography; Sufism and literature; comparative studies in the Baroque; translation and translation studies.
Assistant Professor, Interior Design, Eskanazi School of Art, Architecture + Design
American Muslims; placemaking; mosques; designing in situ; human ecological design; human-place relationships in socio-religious spaces and community buildings
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies; Director, Islamic Studies Program; Director, Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies
History and historiography of Islamic Central Asia in the 16th-20th centuries; political and cultural self-representation in Central Asian sources; Central Asia’s role in the history of the Islamic world.
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Ottoman court literature; cultural history of the Ottoman empire; Turkish oral literature; secularism, Islam, and modernity in Turkey; contemporary Turkish politics and Islamist movements; textual studies; cultural studies; postmodernism; gender studies; Islamic civilizations.
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Political Science
Civil wars, ethnic strife, and other territorial conflicts in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan; politics of Muslim minorities in Western Europe and North America; Muslim immigration; Arab spring; Islamist political engagement.
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Islamic philosophy; Islamic intellectual history, esp. the cultural role of philosophy and science; Baha'i studies; Suhrawardi and the Ishraqi school.
Professor, Maurer School of Law; Val Nolan Faculty Fellow; Associate Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy
Structure of the inter-state system; ethnic conflict; human rights; transitional justice, and comparative law, especially in European and Islamic contexts; re-defining self-determination to devise an effective right of peaceful secession.