Faculty

Asma Afsaruddin

Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 856-7347

Email:

aafsarud@iu.edu

Quranic studies; hadith studies; intersection of religious and political thought; perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Islam and religious pluralism.

Heather Akou

Associate Professor, Fashion Design, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Phone:

(812) 855-6163

Email:

hakou@iu.edu

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.

Salman Al-Ani

Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Program Director, Arabic Flagship Program

Phone:

(812) 855-8555

Email:

alani@iu.edu

Arabic linguistics, phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax; teaching Arabic as a second language; translation.

Asaad Alsaleh

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Email:

alsaleha@iu.edu

Modern Arabic literature and culture; comparative literature and cultural studies; Arab Spring autobiography; literary theory.

Michael Brose

Professor of Practice, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-4403

Email:

brosemc@iu.edu

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.

Beth Buggenhagen

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Phone:

(812) 855-0617

Email:

babuggen@iu.edu

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.

Jamsheed Choksy

Chair and Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-2233

Email:

jchoksy@iu.edu

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.

Akram Habibulla

Associate Librarian, Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-9885

Email:

akkhabib@iu.edu

Manuscripts of Muslim Eurasia.

John Hanson

Professor, History

Phone:

(812) 855-5212

Email:

jhhanson@iu.edu

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.

R. Kevin Jaques

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Email:

rjaques@iu.edu

Medieval Islamic theology and law; biography and Muslim historiography; Islam in Indonesia.

Marianne Kamp

Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-4394

Email:

mkamp@iu.edu

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.

Paul Losensky

Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature and Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-6242

Email:

plosensk@iu.edu

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.

Hassnaa Mohammed

Assistant Professor, Interior Design, Eskanazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Email:

hassmoha@iu.edu

American Muslims; placemaking; mosques; designing in situ; human ecological design; human-place relationships in socio-religious spaces and community buildings

Ron Sela

Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies; Director, Islamic Studies Program; Director, Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-7017

Email:

rsela@iu.edu

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.

Kemal Silay

Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-5227

Email:

ksilay@iu.edu

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.

Abdulkader Sinno

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Political Science

Phone:

(812) 855-5885

Email:

asinno@iu.edu

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.

John Walbridge

Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 855-8689

Email:

jwalbrid@iu.edu

Islamic philosophy; Islamic intellectual history, esp. the cultural role of philosophy and science; Baha'i studies; Suhrawardi and the Ishraqi school.

Timothy Waters

Professor, Maurer School of Law; Val Nolan Faculty Fellow; Associate Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy

Phone:

(812) 856-2748

Email:

tiwaters@iu.edu

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.

Osita Afoaku

Clinical Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Phone:

(812) 855-0749

Email:

osafoaku@iu.edu

U.S.-African relations; human rights, democratization, state reconstruction, and sustainable development in Africa.

Tavy Aherne

Associate Director, African Studies Program; Adjunct Faculty, Art History

Phone:

(812) 855-5081

Email:

taherne@iu.edu

African art, post-colonial theory, interdisciplinary methodologies

Iman Alramadan

Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 856-9167

Email:

imaalram@iu.edu

Teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic grammar and morphology; Arabic literature; language of Arabic science and medicine.

Ishan Ashutosh

Associate Professor, Geography

Phone:

(812) 855-6303

Email:

iashutos@iu.edu

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.

Hussein Banai

Associate Professor, International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-9111

Email:

hbanai@iu.edu

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.

Christopher Beckwith

Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-2428

Email:

beckwith@iu.edu

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.

Purnima Bose

Professor, International Studies, and English; Academic Director, IU India Gateway

Phone:

(812) 855-5334

Email:

pbose@iu.edu

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.

Gardner Bovingdon

Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-0230

Email:

gbovingd@iu.edu

Politics in contemporary Xinjiang; history of modern Xinjiang; historiography in China; nationalism and ethnic conflict.

Daniel Caner

Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Director, Program in Ancient Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-9805

Email:

dcaner@iu.edu

Late Roman/early church history; classicism; asceticism; hagiography.

Nick Cullather

Professor, International Studies and History

Phone:

(812) 855-1602

Email:

ncullath@iu.edu

Diplomatic history; modernization theory; U.S.-Asian relations; intelligence.

Shahyar Daneshgar

Emeritus Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-0025

Email:

sdaneshg@iu.edu

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.

Michael Dodson

Professor, History

Phone:

(812) 855-6286

Email:

msdodson@iu.edu

South Asian intellectual and cultural history; British imperial history; postcolonial theory.

Maria Domene-Danés

Lecturer, Art History

Phone:

(812) 855-2548

Email:

mdomened@iu.edu

Contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa; post-civil wars art in Lebanon; intersections of art, archival theory, and global conflict

Kathleen Evans

Director, Language Workshop

Phone:

(812) 856-4818

Email:

ke1@iu.edu

Language, literature, and linguistics; Russian.

David Fidler

James Louis Calamaras Emeritus Professor, Maurer School of Law

Email:

dfidler@iu.edu

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.

Brad Fulton

Associate Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Phone:

(812) 855-6948

Email:

fulton@iu.edu

Organizational theory & behavior; management; leadership; social entrepreneurship; diversity; network analysis.

Sumit Ganguly

Rabindranath Tagore Professor, Distinguished Professor, Political Science

Phone:

(812) 855-1363

Email:

sganguly@iu.edu

International relations and world politics; comparative politics (South Asia, Southeast Asia); ethnopolitics; regional security; nuclear strategy and arms control; counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.

Emma Gilligan

Associate Professor, International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-9115

Email:

egilliga@iu.edu

Human rights, esp. in Soviet and post-Soviet eras; nationalism; genocide; war in Chechnya; humanitarian interventions.

Jane Goodman

Professor, Anthropology

Phone:

(812) 855-3232

Email:

janegood@iu.edu

Performance and civic life; intertextuality; colonial and postcolonial formations; theater, music, and poetry; focus on North Africa, the Middle East, and France.

Cooper Harriss

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Email:

charriss@iu.edu

Religious and theological dimensions of race in American, African-American, and global contexts; postwar American religion; religion and sport; religion and literature.

Malik Hodjaev

John D. Soper Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-3904

Email:

mhodjaev@iu.edu

Malik Hodjaev is the John D. Soper Senior Lecturer of Uzbek in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies.

Feisal Istrabadi

McRobbie Bicentennial Professor in Global Strategic Studies, Central Eurasian Studies; Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East; Professor of Practice, Maurer School of Law

Phone:

(812) 855-4221

Email:

fistraba@iu.edu

Legal and political institution building in countries transitioning from dictatorship to democracy; democratization, transitional justice, and constitutionalism, esp. in the Middle East.

Günther Jikeli

Erna B. Rosenfeld Associate Professor for the Study of Antisemitism; Associate Professor, Borns Jewish Studies Program and Germanic Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-2033

Email:

gjikeli@iu.edu

History of antisemitism; impact of contemporary antisemitism in France and Germany; Dieudonné; intergenerational transmissions of antisemitic beliefs; perceptions of the Holocaust.

Hilary Kahn

Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs, IUPUI; Associate Vice President for International Affairs, Indiana University

Email:

hkahn@iu.edu

Aziza Khazzoom

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 856-2279

Email:

khazzoom@iu.edu

Israel; social stratification; race/ethnicity; gender; immigration.

Pedro Machado

Associate Professor, History; Director, Dhar India Studies Program

Phone:

(812) 855-1320

Email:

pmachado@iu.edu

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.

Rebecca Manring

Professor, Religious Studies

Email:

rmanring@iu.edu

Asian Languages and Literature (Sanskrit, Bengali, Middle Bengali); South Asian hagiography; formation of religious community; women in South Asian religious traditions; film and religion.

David McDonald

Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Phone:

(812) 855-0396

Email:

davmcdon@iu.edu

Performance ethnography; social theory; ethnomusicological study of violence and socio-cultural trauma; focus on Israel & Palestine.

Michael McGinnis

Professor Emeritus, Political Science

Email:

mcginnis@iu.edu

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.

Elaine Monaghan

Professor of Practice, Media School

Phone:

(812) 856-2781

Email:

emonagha@iu.edu

Gulnisa Nazarova

John D. Soper Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies; Director, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)

Email:

gnazarov@iu.edu

Uyghur language; comparative lexicology of Turkic languages; problems of etymology; ethnography; methods of teaching.

Cecilia Obeng

Professor, School of Public Health

Phone:

(812) 856-0502

Email:

cobeng@iu.edu

Child health in traditional societies, esp. Ghana.

Samuel Obeng

Professor, Linguistics

Phone:

(812) 855-8199

Email:

sobeng@iu.edu

Discourse pragmatics; language contact; phonetics and Firthian prosodic phonology; African linguistics.

Alwiya Omar

Director, National African Languages Resource Center (NALRC); Clinical Professor, and African Languages Coordinator, African Studies Program

Phone:

(812) 855-3323

Email:

aomar@iu.edu

Second language acquisition; Kiswahili pragmatics; African Language programming and development.

Öner Özçelik

Associate Professor and Chair, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-3759

Email:

oozcelik@iu.edu

Second language acquisition with an emphasis on Turkish; Turkish and Turkic languages; phonology and phonetics, esp. prosody; prosody-syntax interface; phonology-morphology interface.

Clémence Pinaud

Associate Professor, International Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-6281

Email:

cpinaud@iu.edu

Gender and sexual violence; civilian–guerrilla group relations; war and post-war economy; state-building processes; South Sudan and East Africa.

Aaron Ponce

Assistant Professor, International Studies

Phone:

(812) 855-5468

Email:

ajponce@iu.edu

International migration; public attitudes toward immigration; race, racialization, and ethnicity; Islamophobia.

Rafael Reuveny

Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Phone:

(812) 855-4944

Email:

rreuveny@iu.edu

International political economy; sustainable development; political economy of the Middle East.

Jeremy Schott

Professor, Religious Studies; Director, Medieval Studies Institute

Email:

jmschott@iu.edu

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.

Winnifred Sullivan

Provost Professor, Religious Studies; Affiliate Professor, Maurer School of Law; Co-Director, Center for Religion and the Human

Email:

wfsulliv@iu.edu

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.