Muslim Studies Faculty
Kecia Ali
Professor of Religion
College of Arts and Sciences
Betty S. Anderson
Professor of History
College of Arts and Sciences
Thomas J. Barfield
Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
President, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
Cynthia Becker
Associate Professor of Art History
College of Arts and Sciences
Andre de Quadros
Professor of Music
College of Fine Arts
Olga M. Davidson
Research Fellow
Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations
Erik Goldstein
Chair and Professor of International Relations
Pardee School of Global Studies
Heba Gowayed
Assistant Professor, Sociology
College of Arts and Sciences
Shahla Haeri
Founder, Women’s Studies Program
Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Robert W. Hefner
Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences and Pardee School of Global Studies
Giselle Khoury-Disano
Head of Arabic Language Program
World Languages and Literatures
College of Arts and Sciences
Nazli Kibria
Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Frank Korom
Professor of Religion and Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Lance D. Laird
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
School of Medicine
Margaret Litvin
Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature
World Languages and Literatures
College of Arts and Sciences
Diana Lobel
Associate Professor of Religion
College of Arts and Sciences
Noora Lori
Assistant Professor of International Relations
Pardee School of Global Studies
Christina Luke
Senior Lecturer of Archaeology
College of Arts and Sciences
Shamiran Mako
Assistant Professor of International Relations
Pardee School of Global Studies
Jeremy Menchik
Associate Professor of International Relations
Pardee School of Global Studies
Roberta Micallef
Associate Professor of the Practice of Turkish
World Languages and Literatures
College of Arts and Sciences
Luluah Mustafa
Senior Lecturer in Arabic
World Languages and Literatures
College of Arts and Sciences
Fallou Ngom
Associate Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Ayse Parla
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Teena Purohit
Assistant Professor of Religion
College of Arts and Sciences
Sunil Sharma
Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature
World Languages and Literatures
College of Arts and Sciences
Nancy Smith-Hefner
Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Caterina Scaramelli
Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Sassan Tabatabai
Senior Lecturer, Core Curriculum
Head of Persian Language Program
World Languages and Literatures
College of Arts and Sciences
Marcus Walton
Assistant Professor of Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences
Diana Wylie
Professor of History
College of Arts and Sciences
Michael Zank
Professor of Religion
College of Arts and Sciences