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Membership in CCSMEMC is open to all UNC students, faculty, and staff. To become a member of the Center, e-mail Carl Ernst or Cangüzel Zülfikar.

Name Department (Title) Area of Specialization
Sahar Amer  Asian Studies (Faculty) Arabic, European Orientalism
Glaire Anderson Art History (Faculty) Early and medieval Islamic art/
al-Andalus
Lorraine Aragon Anthropology (Faculty) Indonesia
Yaakov Ariel Religious Studies (Faculty) Judaism
Ronald Bergquist Information and Library Science (Faculty) Library science
Peter Coclanis  International Affairs (Associate Provost) South/Southeast Asia
Michael Corrado Law School (Faculty) Comparative law
Lidewijde de Jong Classics (Faculty) Early Islamic archaeology of the Near East, particularly Syria and Lebanon
Charles Joukhadar Asian Studies (Faculty) Arabic language and culture
R. Ann Dunbar  African & Afro-American Studies (Faculty) East Africa
Carl Ernst Religious Studies (Faculty) Middle East and South Asia
Terrence Evens Anthropology (Faculty) Israel, India, East Africa
Raymond B. Farrow  Kenan-Flagler School of Business (Executive Director, KIPE)  
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
Nasser Isleem Asian Studies (Faculty) Arabic
Zahra Kamarei Asian Studies (Faculty) Persian
Doria El Kerdany Asian Studies (Faculty) Arabic language, culture, film, and music
Charlie Kurzman Sociology (Faculty) Iran and Islamic movements
Jodi Magness Religious Studies (Faculty) Middle East archaeology
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
Don Nonini Anthropology (Faculty) Malaysia
Julius Nyang'Oro African & Afro-American Studies (Faculty) East Africa
Anthony Oberschall Sociology (Faculty, Emeritus) Ethnic conflict in Israel/Palestine, Bosnia
Jim Peacock Anthropology (Faculty) Southeast Asia
John Pickles Geography (Faculty) Bulgaria-Turkey
Andrew Reynolds Political Science (Faculty) State-building in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan
Howard Reisner Pathology (Faculty)  
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
Mamarame Seck African & Afro-American Studies (Faculty) Wolof language and literature, Sufism
Bereket Selassie African & Afro-American Studies (Faculty) North-East Africa
Yaron Shemer Asian Studies (Faculty) Arab and Israeli film studies, Hebrew language
Sarah Shields History (Faculty) Middle East
Jill Shires Library (Faculty)
Music
Sara H. Smith Geography (Faculty)
South Asia
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
Zeynep Türkyilmaz History (Post-doctoral Fellow)  American missions in the Middle East and religious conversion
Dorothy Verkerk Art History (Faculty)  Morocco
Ellen Welch Romance Languages (Faculty)  Early modern Mediterranean studies and French-Arabic relations
Dale Whittington Environment Sciences and Engineering (Faculty)  Middle East water resources
Nadia Yaqub Asian Studies (Faculty) Arabic
Cangüzel Zülfikar Asian Studies (Faculty) Turkish and history of the Ottomans and Turkey
Fahir Zülfikar Disbursement Services (Accountant) Islamic business ethics

Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Name Department (Title) Area of Specialization
Hannah Albertson  Law School (Student) International finance and foreign policy
Rose Aslan Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islamic studies
Kevin Mark Blankinship  Comparative Literature (Graduate Student)  
Laurel Bradley Anthropology (Graduate Student) Israel
Rania Chelala Comparative Literature (Graduate Student) American, French, and Arabic literature
Daniel DeHanas Sociology (Graduate Student) Christians and Muslims in Britain
Emily Katherine Eidener Health Behavior and Health Education (Graduate Student)  
Murat Es Geography (Graduate Student) Middle East and Europe
Tilda Farhat  Health Behavior/Health Education (Graduate Student) Lebanon
Kathleen Foody Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islam
Brandon Gorman Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islam
Aseem Hasnain Sociology (Graduate Student) South Asia, Islam, interfaith interactions
Matthew Hotham Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islam
Rolien Hoyng Communication (Graduate Student) Information technologies in Turkey
Brannon Ingram Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islam
Mohammad Ali Kadivar Sociology (Graduate Student) Middle East, Iran, Islam and Islamic reformist movements
Gazi Kara Economics (Graduate Student) Institutional change and economic growth in Turkey
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
Sherine Mahfouz Journalism and Mass Communications (Graduate Student) Arab media
Justin Martin Journalism and Mass Communications (Graduate Student) Media in Jordan
Natalie Martin Education (Graduate Student) Education in Jordan
Lauren Maxwell School of Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health (Graduate Student) Infectious Diseases in the Middle East
Ilyse Morgenstein Religious Studies (Graduate Student)  Islam in South Asia
Aman Nadhiri English (Graduate Student)  Islam
Ijlal Naqvi Sociology (Graduate Student)  Iran/Pakistan
Linda Quiquivix Geography (Graduate Student) Power and human rights in Palestine
Rachana Rao Anthropology (Graduate Student) South Asian Islam
Katelyn Rose Love Political Science (Undergraduate)  
Emily Joy Rothchild Music (Undergraduate) Muslim and Lutheran women's musical activities in Tanzania and Germany
Michael Rulon Comparative Literature (Graduate Student) Francophone and Arabic literature
Christopher Scanzoni Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies (Undergraduate)
Natalia Suit Anthropology (Graduate Student) Qur'an as a physical object in Egypt
Tehseen Thaver Religious Studies (Graduate Student)  Islamic studies
Sarah Thomsen Vierra History (Graduate Student) History of Germany's Turkish Community
Elena Yehia Anthropology (Graduate Student) Social movements in Lebanon and Mexico
Timur Yuskaev Religious Studies (Graduate Student) Islam

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