
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.
Indiana University has one of the largest and most diverse collections of faculty with research and professional interests in Islam and the Muslim World of any university in the United States. Currently, there are over 70 professors and more than 100 graduate students who focus on Islam and the Muslim world.
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 Center
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.
Director, East Asian Studies Center; Director, Pan Asia Institute
Uyghurs and Uyghur elites in the Mongol Empire and the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
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.
Professor Emeritus, Central Eurasian Studies
Islamic Central Asia; Soviet Central Asia; Sufism; Islamization; religions and Inner Asia; Islamic hagiography.
Associate Professor, Art History
Medieval Islamic visual culture; 19th-century Islamic arts; image of architecture in paintings, sculpture, and applied arts; orientalism, historiography and the master-narrative(s) of Islamic art.
Associate Librarian, Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Central Eurasian Studies
Manuscripts of Muslim Eurasia.
HLS Executive Associate Dean; 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
Islam in the modern world; Islam in Indonesia; pedagogy and socialization; social movements; religion and media; politics of defining religious orthodoxy.
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.
Chair and Professor, Comparative Literature; Professor, 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.
Associate Professor, History
Institutional and ideological foundations of the Ottoman imperial praxis; comparative studies of early modern Eurasian empires; Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography; the Ottoman-Safavid rivalry; inter-cultural and inter-religious exchanges in early modern Eurasia.
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies; 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, Anthropology, Central Eurasian Studies, and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism; state, society, and Islamic movements; identity politics; social change and modernization; Muslim family and gender dynamics in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia.
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.
Director, Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies Program; Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education
Educational policy formation in international assistance agencies; gender and education in the Muslim world; comparative multicultural policies.
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.
Professor of Practice, 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, School of Public and Economic Affairs
U.S.-African relations; human rights, democratization, state reconstruction, and sustainable development in Africa.
Lecturer, Near 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.
Chair, International Studies; Associate Professor, Department of English; Associate Professor, International Studies
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; Adjunct Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Adjunct Associate Professor, History
Politics in contemporary Xinjiang; history of modern Xinjiang; historiography in China; nationalism and ethnic conflict.
Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Late Roman/early church history; classicism; asceticism; hagiography.
Professor, International Studies
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.
Director, Dhar India Studies Program; Associate Professor, Department of History; Academic Director, IU India Gateway Office, New Delhi
South Asian intellectual and cultural history; British imperial history; postcolonial theory.
Professor, International Studies
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.
Assistant Professor, 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; Director of Undergraduate Studies, 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, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Legal and political institution building in countries transitioning from dictatorship to democracy; democratization, transitional justice, and constitutionalism, esp. in the Middle East.
Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Teaching Arabic as a second language; interfaith dialogues; community outreach; Sufism.
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, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Israel; social stratification; race/ethnicity; gender; immigration.
Associate Professor, Department of 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; Professor, Dhar India Studies Program
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, 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.
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies; Director of Olamot: Center for Scholarly and Cultural Exchange with Israel; Adjunct Professor, History, Central Eurasian Studies, Ancient Studies, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Ancient Judaism; Rabbinics; Jews of ancient Persia; Talmud in its Iranian context; ancient Iranian studies.
Professor of Practice, Media School
Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor, Department of History; Associate Director, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES); Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies
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, African Studies Program; 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, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
International political economy; sustainable development; political economy of the Middle East.
Professor, Department of Religious Studies; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History; Adjunct Faculty, Borns Jewish Studies Program; Adjunct Faculty, Classical Studies
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, Department of Religious Studies; Affiliate Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law; 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.