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Individuals listed here are done so at Campus Watch's initiative; they have neither asked to be included, nor have we asked for their authorization. Specifically, they do not necessarily endorse the Campus Watch project, nor does Campus Watch necessarily endorse all their work. Amir A. Afkhami Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Global Health George Washington University Areas of Expertise: history of medicine and public health, global public health, especially in the Middle East http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/faculty/afkhami_amir.cfm Fouad Ajami Majid Khadduri Professor and Director of the Middle East Studies Program School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University Areas of Expertise: Arab intellectual life, Arab-Israeli conflict, U.S. foreign policy. http://apps.sais-jhu.edu/faculty_bios/faculty_bio1.php?ID=24 Nezar Alsayyad Professor of architecture, planning, urban design, and urban history; chair of the Center for Middle Eastern studies; director, International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments University of California, Berkeley Areas of Expertise: Middle Eastern studies, architectural history, urban history, cultural studies of the built environment, housing and urban development, Islamic architecture and urbanism. http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/faculty/alsayyad_nezar/ Isaac Alteras Professor of History Queen's College Areas of Expertise: modern Jewish history, US-Israeli relations. http://qcpages.qc.edu/Jewish_Studies/alteras.html Shaul Bakhash Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History George Mason University Area of Expertise: Iran. http://www.gmu.edu/robinson/bakhash.htm Magnus T. Bernhardsson Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History Williams College Areas of Expertise: Modern Iraqi history, U.S.-Iraqi relations 1900--2000, archaeology and nationalism in the Modern Middle East http://www.williams.edu/history/saf/faculty/bernhardssonm.html Abdelilah Bouasria Visiting Professor and Program Head of Arabic Studies Monterey Institute of International Studies Areas of Expertise: North African and Middle Eastern politics, social movements, Moroccan Jewish diaspora, Sufism http://language.miis.edu/faculty/faculty.html?id=181 Daniel Brumberg Associate Professor, Department of Government Georgetown University Areas of Expertise: democracy in the Middle East, Egypt, Iran, Algeria. http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/brumberg/ Marah Bukai Professor of Contemporary Islam Georgetown University, Center for Continuing and Professional Education Professor of Arabic Language/Lecturer on Arabic culture and politics University of Maryland, College Park Areas of Expertise: Arabic language and culture, contemporary Islam, poetry http://www7.georgetown.edu/scs/ccpe/ccpe_faculty.cfm David G. Cashin Resident Faculty, Intercultural Studies and Muslim Studies, the Seminary and School of Missions; Adjunct Faculty, Intercultural Studies, the Graduate School Areas of Expertise: Islamic history, theology, Muslim-Christian relations www.ciu.edu/faculty/bio_short.php Jamsheed Choksy Professor of Central Eurasian Studies Professor of History Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies Indiana University Areas of Expertise: Central Asia, South Asia, medieval Iran, Zoroastrianism http://newsinfo.iu.edu/sb/page/normal/1014.html Mark R. Cohen Professor of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University Area of Expertise: Jewish history in medieval Muslim countries. http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/faculty_cohen.html David Cook Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Rice University Areas of Expertise: Origins and historical development of Islam, Jihad, Islamic Mysticism http://reli.rice.edu/faculty.cfm?doc_id=752 Michael Cook Cleveland Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University Areas of Expertise: Islamic history and religion. http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/faculty_cook.html Patricia Crone Professor of Islamic History Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Areas of Expertise: Islamic history and religion. http://ias.edu/About/faculty/crone.php Adeed Dawisha Professor of Political Science Miami University of Ohio Areas of expertise: the application of theories of democratic transitions and consolidation to the Middle East, particularly post-2003 Iraq. http://www.users.muohio.edu/dawisha/ Marius Deeb Adjunct Professor of Middle East Studies Johns Hopkins University Areas of Expertise: Islam and terrorism http://www.sais-jhu.edu/nondegree/summer/faculty.htm Donna Robinson Divine Morningstar Professor of Government Director of Middle East Studies Smith College Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli conflict, Ottomon Palestine, Middle East history and politics, Muslim and Jewish cultures. http://www.smith.edu/mes/faculty_divine.php Alan Dowty Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies University of Calgary Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israel conflict, Israeli politics, issues of international enforcement http://www.poli.ucalgary.ca/Dowty.htm Richard Foltz Professor, Department of Religion Concordia University Areas of Expertise: Iranian studies, Persian history, Islam, Zoroastrianism, environmentalism/ecology/animal rights in the Muslim world http://religion.concordia.ca/FoltzR.html Robert O. Freedman Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science Baltimore Hebrew University Areas of Expertise: Russian foreign policy toward the Middle East, Central Asia, Arab-Israeli conflict http://www.bhu.edu/Faculty/freedman.htm David Fromkin Professor of History and International Relations Boston University Areas of Expertise: Modern Middle East politics, International Law http://www.bu.edu/uni/faculty/fromkin.html Gregory Gause Associate Professor, Political Science Department University of Vermont Areas of Expertise: Arabian peninsula, Persian Gulf. http://www.uvm.edu/~fgause/ Anna Geifman Professor of History Boston University Areas of Expertise: Political extremism and terrorism, history of the Russian revolutionary movements, psychohistory. http://www.bu.edu/history/faculty.html#Geifman Larry P. Goodson Professor of Middle East Studies U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pa. Areas of Expertise: Modern Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, political Islam, international relations, democratization. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/people.cfm?authorID=731 Louis A. Gordon Professor of Political Science California State University San Bernardino Areas of Expertise: Government and politics of the Middle East, Middle East security, national security studies. http://polisci.csusb.edu/facultyStaff/part_time_faculty.htm Mary Habeck Associate Professor of Strategic Studies John Hopkins University Areas of Expertise: American defense policy, Islamic religion, culture and law, strategic and security issues, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction http://apps.sais-jhu.edu/faculty_bios/faculty_bio1.php?ID=267 Aaron W. Hughes Associate Professor of History and Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor of Jewish Studies State University of New York at Buffalo Areas of Expertise: Judaism, intellectual history, historiography, theory, method, and religion. http://www.history.buffalo.edu/people/hughes.shtml Norman Itzkowitz Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus Princeton University Areas of Expertise: Ottoman History, modern Turkey. http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/faculty_itzkowitz.html Susan M. Jellissen Assistant Professor of Political Science Belmont University Area of Expertise: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics of Europe and Politics of the Middle East http://www.belmont.edu/ps/about_our_faculty__br_/index.html Bruce Jentleson Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Chairman, Professor of Political Science Duke University Areas of Expertise: U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/people/faculty/jentleson/ Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Assistant Professor History University of Pennsylvania Areas of Expertise: Iran, Ottoman empire http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/kashani.htm Mark Katz Professor of Government and Politics, Department of Public and International Affairs George Mason University Area of Expertise: international relations of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. http://www.jamestown.org/authors_details.php?author_id=162 Judith A. Klinghoffer Senior Research Associate, International Relations Rutgers University, Camden Area of Expertise: Israel. http://history.rutgers.edu/graduate/ab94klin.htm Timur Kuran Professor of Economics and Political Science and Gorter Family Chair in Islamic Studies Duke University Areas of Expertise: Islam and Economics, Social Mechanisms. http://econ.duke.edu/~tk43/ John C. Lamoreaux Associate Professor of Religious Studies Southern Methodist University Areas of Expertise: Early Christian and Muslim literature in Arabic, the history of the Orthodox Church under Islam. www.johnlamoreaux.org/index.html Jacob Lassner Professor of History and Religion Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization Northwestern University Areas of Expertise: Medieval Near Eastern History, Jewish-Muslim relations. http://www.religion.northwestern.edu/faculty/lassner.html Avigdor Levy Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Brandeis University Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israel Conflict, Ottoman empire, Jews in Muslim countries http://www.brandeis.edu/facguide/one?unetid=110108109111115116108117 Bernard Lewis Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus Princeton University Areas of Expertise: Islamic history and culture. http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/faculty_lewis.html James E. Lindsay Associate Professor, Department of History Colorado State University Areas of Expertise: Medieval Islamic History. http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Hist/fac/lindsay.html J. Mark Long Director of Middle East Studies and Associate Professor in the Honors College Baylor University Areas of Expertise: Contemporary Islamic fundamentalism and the Arab-Israeli conflict. http://www.baylor.edu/bic/index.php?id=70256 Kanan Makiya Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Brandeis University Areas of Expertise: Iraqi history and politics. http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/nejs/faculty.html#kmakiya Fedwa Malti-Douglas The Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature Adjunct Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law Indiana University, Bloomington Areas of Expertise: Gender and feminist studies in the Arab and Islamic worlds, medieval Arabic biography. http://www.indiana.edu/~ksuchard/ Ann E. Mayer Associate Professor of Legal Studies Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Areas of Expertise: Comparative law, Middle Eastern law, human rights law, international law, Islamic law; law and international business http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/mayera.html David Meir-Levi Lecturer, History Department San Jose State University Areas of Expertise: Jewish studies, modern and ancient Israeli history, Arab-Israeli conflict, archaeology, Near Eastern history http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/jwss/faculty.html George J. Michael Associate Professor of Administration of Justice University of Virginia's College at Wise Areas of Expertise: Militant Islam's alliances with the extreme right, extremist political movements http://www.uvawise.edu/socibeh_sciences/faculty.html Yitzhak Nakash Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Brandeis University Areas of Expertise: Iraq, Shi'i Islam. http://www.brandeis.edu/facguide/one?unetid=110108109111115117116110 Guity Nashat Research Fellow Hoover Institution Areas of Expertise: women in the Middle East, Iran http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/Faculty/nashat.html http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/nashat.html Brendan O'Leary Lauder Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania Areas of Expertise: Iraq, Kurdistan, ethnic conflict, terrorism http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=73 David Siddhartha Patel Assistant Professor of Political Science Cornell University Areas of Expertise: Iraq, Middle Eastern politics, Islamic institutions, political culture http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/vivo/DavidPatel Camille Pecastaing Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University Areas of Expertise: Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Persian Gulf http://apps.sais-jhu.edu/faculty_bios/faculty_bio1.php?ID=170 Daniel C. Peterson Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic Brigham Young University Areas of Expertise: Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Arabic Language and Literature http://mi.byu.edu/authors/?authorID=1 David S. Powers Professor of Islamic History and Law Director of Graduate Studies Cornell University Areas of Expertise: Islamic Civilization, Islamic History and Law, Classical Arabic Texts http://www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/faculty/powers.html Robert Rabil Assistant professor, director of graduate studies, Department of Political Science Florida Atlantic University Areas of Expertise: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, US-Arab Relations, Reform in the Arab World and Radical Islam and Terrorism http://wise.fau.edu/divdept/lifelong/winter2006/w301.htm Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr Professor of Political Science University of San Diego Areas of Expertise: Pakistan, Islamism. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/data/indiv/area/idsas/NASR,Vali.htm Bernard Reich Professor of Political Science and International Affairs George Washington University Areas of Expertise: Middle Eastern politics, terrorism, U.S.-Israel relations, Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel and, oil politics http://www.gwu.edu/~elliott/facultystaff/reich_b.cfm Andrew Rippin Professor of History and Dean of the Faculties of Humanities University of Victoria Areas of Expertise: Islamic studies, Qur'an and the history of its interpretation http://web.uvic.ca/~arippin/ Jalil Roshandel Associate Professor, Director of Security Studies Department of Political Science East Carolina University Areas of Expertise: International Relations, Security Studies, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Comparative Politics, Iran, Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf http://www.ecu.edu/polsci/faculty/roshandel.html James R. Russell Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies Harvard University Areas of Expertise: Armenia, Iran, Zoroastrianism, comparative mythology, linguistics http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/russell.htm Franck Salameh Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages Boston College Area of Expertise: Literary Arabic, History of Middle East Linguistics. http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL/SL.html Philip Carl Salzman Professor of Anthropology McGill University Areas of Expertise: Iran, India http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/anthro/faculty/salzman.htm Saliba Sarsar Professor of Political Science and Associate Vice President for Academic Program Initiatives Monmouth University Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli conflict, democratization http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~ssarsar/ Michael Schub Lecturer of Arabic Trinity College Area of Expertise: Literary Arabic. http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/mdlg/Arabic/arabic.html Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Visiting Professor GLORIA Center, Herzliya, Israel Area of Expertise: Comparative international relations between the U.S., the Middle East and Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_G._Schwanitz Haim Shaked Director, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies University of Miami Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli conflict, Sudan http://www.miami.edu/miller-center/pages/faculty.html Kemal Silay Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Professor Indiana University, Bloomington Area of Expertise: Turkey http://php.indiana.edu/~ksilay/ Alain Silvera Professor Emeritus of History Bryn Mawr College Areas of Expertise: Egypt, France http://www.brynmawr.edu/find/emeriti.shtml S. Rob Sobhani Adjunct Professor in the Government Department and the School of Foreign Service Georgetown University Areas of Expertise: Iran http://www1.georgetown.edu/explore/courses/index.cfm?Action=View&CourseID=GOVT-417 Steven L. Spiegel Professor of Political Science UCLA Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle Eastern political economics http://www.isop.ucla.edu/cnes/about/person.asp?Facultystaff_ID=112 Kenneth Stein William E. Schatten Professor of of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies Emory University Areas of Expertise: Israel, Arab-Israeli conflict. http://www.emory.edu/HISTORY/faculty/stein.html Norman Stillman Professor and Schusterman/Josey Chair in Judaic History University of Oklahoma Areas of Expertise: medieval and modern Jewish and Islamic History http://www.ou.edu/cas/history/faculty_bio_stillman.html John W. Swails Professor of History Oral Roberts University Areas of Expertise: Iraq Raymond Tanter Visiting Professor Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Iran, terrorism, proliferation http://www1.georgetown.edu/explore/experts/index.cfm?Action=View&NetID=rt54 Selwyn K. Troen Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies Brandeis University Areas of Expertise: modern Israel http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/nejs/faculty.html#Anchor-29721 Abraham Udovitch Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East Princeton University Areas of Expertise: Medieval Islam, Middle Eastern economic history http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/faculty_udovitch.html Harold (Hal) Waller Professor of Political Science McGill University Areas of Expertise: U.S. budgetary process as a focal point of the struggle over public policy, American politics, research methods, Jewish political studies, Israeli politics. http://www.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/faculty/waller/ William E. Watson Professor of History Immaculata College Areas of Expertise: France and Algeria. http://www.immaculata.edu/Academics/departments/history/faculty.htm Quintan Wiktorowicz Assistant Professor of International Studies Rhodes College Areas of Expertise: Jordan, Islamism. http://www.rhodes.edu/public/2_0-Academics/2_1_4-InternationalStudies/2_1_4_3-Faculty/2_1_4_3_1_8-Wiktorowicz.shtml Birol Yesilada Professor of Political Science and International Studies Contemporary Turkish Studies Endowed Chair Portland State University Areas of Expertise: Turkish politics, International political economy, European Union http://web.pdx.edu/~yesilada/ Marvin Zonis Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, emeritus Areas of Expertise: Middle Eastern political economics http://www.marvinzonis.com
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