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CENTER MEMBERS

To become a member of the Center, e-mail Carl Ernst or Cangüzel Zülfikar.

Name Department (Title) Area of Specialization
Asiya Alam History (Graduate Student) Women's spaces in Pakistan
Alia Al-Tayyib
Epidemiology (Graduate Student) Arab women's health
Sahar Amer  Asian Studies (Faculty) Arabic, European Orientalism
Glaire Anderson Art History (Faculty) Andalusian and Islamic art
Lorraine Aragon Anthropology (Faculty) Indonesia
Yaakov Ariel Religious Studies (Faculty) Judaism
Ronald Bergquist Information and Library Science (Faculty) Library science
Fahad Bishara  History (Graduate Student) Commerce/trade in the Indian Ocean
Peter Coclanis  International Affairs (Associate Provost) South/Southeast Asia
Michael Corrado Law School (Faculty) Comparative law
Daniel DeHanas Sociology (Graduate Student) Middle East
Samuel Robert Dolbee  International Studies (Undergraduate)  
Adriano R. Duque  Romance Languages (Lecturer) Andalusian literature
R. Ann Dunbar  African & Afro-American (Faculty) East Africa
Emily Katherine Eidener Health Behavior and Health Education (Graduate Student)  
Carl Ernst Religious Studies (Faculty) Middle East and South Asia
Terrence Evens Anthropology (Faculty) Israel, India, East Africa
Murat Es Geography (Graduate Student)  
Tilda Farhat  Health Behavior/Health Education (Graduate Student) Lebanon
Raymond B. Farrow  Kenan-Flagler School of Business (Executive Director, KIPE)  
Kathleen Foody Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islam
Luceil L. Friedman Asian Studies (Faculty) Modern Hebrew language and literature
Pika Ghosh Art History (Faculty) South Asian art and architecture
Banu Gökariksel Geography (Faculty) Turkey, Indonesia
Mustafa Gültekin Kenan-Flagler School of Business (Faculty) Turkey
Joseph Haj
Playmakers Repertory Theater (Producing Artistic Director) theater, Palestine
Adel Hanna Environmental Program (Faculty) Climate change
Michel Ibrahim Epidemiology (Faculty) Middle East
Brannon Ingram Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islam
Nasser Isleem Asian Studies (Lecturer) Arabic
Bill Jansen PRIME/INTRAH (Executive Director)  Health, Middle East, Africa, South Asia
Zahra Kamarei Asian Studies (Faculty) Persian
Charlie Kurzman Sociology (Faculty) Iran and Islamic movements
Devon Lee Information and Library Science (Graduate Student) Islamic studies
G. A. Lipton Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islamic studies
Matthew Lubin History (Graduate Student) Ottoman history
Jodi Magness Religious Studies (Faculty) Middle East archaeology
Sherine Mahfouz Journalism and Mass Communications (Graduate Student) Arab media
Tim Marr American Studies (Faculty) U.S. Orientalism
Hassan Melehy Romance Languages (Faculty) Francophone literature and film
Winifred F Metz
Library (Faculty) Film and media
Mabel Miguel
Kenan-Flager School of Business (Faculty) Turkey
Ilyse Morgenstein Religious Studies (Graduate Student)  Islam in South Asia
Aman Nadhiri English (Graduate Student)  Islam
Fattaneh Naeymi-Rad Asian Studies (Faculty)  Persian
Ijlal Naqvi Sociology (Graduate Student)  Iran/Pakistan
Don Nonini Anthropology (Faculty) Malaysia
Julius Nyang'Oro African & Afro-American (Faculty) East Africa
Anthony Oberschall Sociology (Faculty, Emeritus) Ethnic conflict in Israel/Palestine, Bosnia
Maureen O'Brien Art History (Graduate Student) Byzantine and Islamic art
Shaheen Parveen Asian Studies (Faculty) Hindi-Urdu language and literature
Jim Peacock Anthropology (Faculty) Southeast Asia
John Pickles Geography (Faculty) Bulgaria-Turkey
Rachana Rao Anthropology (Graduate Student) South Asian Islam
Andrew Reynolds Political Science (Faculty) State-building in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan
Howard Reisner Pathology (Faculty)  
Katelyn Rose Love Political Science (Undergraduate)  
John Rutledge Library (Faculty) European and Middle Eastern collections development
Yasmin Saikia History (Faculty) South Asia
Omid Safi Religious Studies (Faculty) Islam, Iran, Turkey, Middle East
Kenneth Sams  Classics (Faculty) Near Eastern archaeology
Bereket Selassie African & Afro-American (Faculty) North-East Africa
Sarah Shields History (Faculty) Middle East
Jill Shires Library (Faculty)
Music
Niklaus Steiner Center for Global Initiatives (Director)
Refugees 
Barbara Stenross Academic Advising (Assistant Dean) Sufism
Afroz Taj Asian Studies (Faculty)  Hindi-Urdu language and literature
Shai Tamari History (Graduate Student)  Israel/Palestine
Dale Whittington Environment Sciences and Engineering (Faculty)  Middle East water resources
Peter Wright Religious Studies (Graduate Student)  Islamic studies
Nadia Yaqub Asian Studies (Faculty) Arabic
Timur Yuskaev Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islam
Cangüzel Zülfikar Religious Studies (Lecturer) Turkey

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