Professor of Practice Emeritus, O'Neill School of Public and Economic Affairs
International relations and diplomacy, esp. regarding India.
Senior Lecturer, African Studies Program
Folklore, language, and culture; proverbs, royal praise poetry, and jokes among the Akan of Ghana.
Clinical Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Economic Affairs
U.S.-African relations; human rights, democratization, state reconstruction, and sustainable development in Africa.
Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic grammar and morphology; Arabic literature; language of Arabic science and medicine.
Mark Helmke Postdoctoral Scholar on Global Media, Development, and Democracy
Sociology of media and transnational knowledge, esp. in Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq.
Assistant Professor, Geography
Migration; the politics of race and ethnicity from an international and comparative perspective; urban studies; focus on South Asian diasporas in the US, Canada, and Britain.
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Comparative and international theory; democratic theory; liberalism in post-colonial societies; modern Iranian politics and culture; U.S-Iran relations; diplomatic theory and practice; focus on Iran.
Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
The history of the scholastic-scientific method; history of early Central Asia; ethnolinguistic history of early Central Eurasia and East Asia; historical linguistics (primarily Indo-European, Tibeto-Burman, Chinese, Japanese-Koguryoic, Turkic); theoretical phonology; Mandarin structure; typological linguistics; and computational linguistics.
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Law of armed conflict; humanitarian intervention; military culture; civilian victimization; ethics in war; and international law.
Professor and Chair, International Studies; Professor, English
Post-colonial studies; British colonialism; links between Irish and Indian feminists and nationalists in the first half of the 20th century; globalization; role of corporations in public life; anti-globalization resistance.
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Politics in contemporary Xinjiang; history of modern Xinjiang; historiography in China; nationalism and ethnic conflict.
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Late Roman/early church history; classicism; asceticism; hagiography.
Professor, International Studies and History
Diplomatic history; modernization theory; U.S.-Asian relations; intelligence.
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Iranian/Persian and Turkic linguistic and cultural contacts; Middle Eastern and Central Eurasian comparative folklore and ethnomusicology; ethnic and nationality issues of the Middle East and Central Eurasia with a special focus on Iran.
Associate Professor, History; Academic Director, IU India Gateway, New Delhi
South Asian intellectual and cultural history; British imperial history; postcolonial theory.
Professor, International Studies, and Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Drones and other military technologies; global political economy; social informatics; artificial intelligence.
James Louis Calamaras Emeritus Professor, Maurer School of Law
Cybersecurity law and policy; cyberspace and international law; international law and global health security; the rule of law in counterinsurgency and stability operations; biosecurity threats; arms control and non-proliferation concerning weapons of mass destruction; international legal implications of “non-lethal” weapons.
Associate Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Organizational theory & behavior; management; leadership; social entrepreneurship; diversity; network analysis.
Rabindranath Tagore Professor, Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science
International relations and world politics; comparative politics (South Asia, Southeast Asia); ethnopolitics; regional security; nuclear strategy and arms control; counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.
Associate Professor, International Studies
Human rights, esp. in Soviet and post-Soviet eras; nationalism; genocide; war in Chechnya; humanitarian interventions.
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Performance and civic life; intertextuality; colonial and postcolonial formations; theater, music, and poetry; focus on North Africa, the Middle East, and France.
John D. Soper Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Malik Hodjaev is the John D. Soper Senior Lecturer of Uzbek in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies.
Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East; Professor of Practice, Maurer School of Law
Legal and political institution building in countries transitioning from dictatorship to democracy; democratization, transitional justice, and constitutionalism, esp. in the Middle East.
Erna B. Rosenfeld Professor, Jewish Studies, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
History of antisemitism; impact of contemporary antisemitism in France and Germany; Dieudonné; intergenerational transmissions of antisemitic beliefs; perceptions of the Holocaust.
Professor, Comparative Literature; Professor, French and Italian
Postcolonial studies; the African novel and oral traditions; gender and diaspoar, national identiy, and narrative form; focus on Senegal and West Africa.
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Israel; social stratification; race/ethnicity; gender; immigration.
Associate Professor, History
Global and Indian ocean history; commodity histories; globalization; merchant and commercial networks; oceanic perspectives and frameworks; comparative and connected slaveries; South Asian and African history.
Director, Dhar India Studies Program; Professor, Religious Studies
Asian Languages and Literature (Sanskrit, Bengali, Middle Bengali); South Asian hagiography; formation of religious community; women in South Asian religious traditions; film and religion.
Chair and Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Director, Ethnomusicology Institute
Performance ethnography; social theory; ethnomusicological study of violence and socio-cultural trauma; focus on Israel & Palestine.
Professor Emeritus, Political Science
Faith-based organizations and the design and implementation of public policy related to humanitarian relief, development assistance, peace-building, and reconciliation in troubled regions of the world.
Professor of Practice, Media School
Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor, History; Associate Director, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES)
African military history; militaries and labor; everyday history of colonialism; power and its expressions; World War I.
John D. Soper Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Uyghur language; comparative lexicology of Turkic languages; problems of etymology; ethnography; methods of teaching.
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Child health in traditional societies, esp. Ghana.
Professor, Linguistics
Discourse pragmatics; language contact; phonetics and Firthian prosodic phonology; African linguistics.
Clinical Professor, and African Languages Coordinator, African Studies Program
Second language acquisition; Kiswahili pragmatics; African Language programming and development.
Director, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region; Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Second language acquisition with an emphasis on Turkish; Turkish and Turkic languages; phonology and phonetics, esp. prosody; prosody-syntax interface; phonology-morphology interface.
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Gender and sexual violence; civilian–guerrilla group relations; war and post-war economy; state-building processes; South Sudan and East Africa.
Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Africa; music and religion; mask performance; ritual; identity; popular music; immigration; transnationalism; diaspora; music and health; focus on Côte d’Ivoire
Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
International political economy; sustainable development; political economy of the Middle East.
Professor, Religious Studies; Director, Medieval Studies Institute
Religions of the Late Ancient and Early Medieval/Byzantine Mediterranean and Near East; cultural and social history of Late Antiquity and the Later Roman Empire; contemporary theory and the study of premodernity; ancient philosophy (esp. the Platonic tradition); ancient and Contemporary literary theory; book history.
Provost Professor, Religious Studies; Affiliate Professor, Maurer School of Law; Co-Director, Center for Religion and the Human
Intersections of religion and law in the modern period; phenomenology of modern religion as it is shaped in its encounter with law; comparative study of religion and law; anthropology of law.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies