Faculty
Vincent Barletta
Iberian & Latin American CulturesIbero-Muslim culture and literature, Aljamiado literature, empire, ethics
Lisa Blaydes
Political ScienceAuthoritarian regimes, electoral systems, Egypt, Sufi Islam, Persianate Islamic societies
Elisabeth Boyi
Comparative LiteratureIntellectuals and cultural debates in France and the Francophone world
James Ferguson
AnthropologyGlobalization, modernity, social justice in colonial and postcolonial Africa
Robert Gregg
Religious StudiesEarly Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations of scriptures, religions of late antiquity
Thomas Blom Hansen
AnthropologyContemporary urbanism, comparative religion, South Asia, Southern Africa
Ian Hodder
AnthropologyArchaeology, archaeological theory, excavations at Catalhoyuk in central Turkey
Alexander Key
Comparative LiteratureMedieval Middle East, Arabic literature, intellectual culture, philosophy
Aishwary Kumar
HistoryAesthetics and politics, Marxism, subaltern art and the Southern question, political religion, liberalism, vernacular lives of democracy
Aron Rodrigue
HistoryOttoman Empire, Jews in the Middle East, Sephardi Jewry, Jewish-Muslim interactions
Kabir Tambar
Anthropologycontemporary Islamic movements, secularism, nationalism, minority politics, Turkey, Middle East
Ali Yaycioglu
HistoryOttoman Empire, history of economic and political Institutions, empires and global history, Modern Turkey
