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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 Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Co-chair, Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order Areas of Expertise: Arab intellectual life, Arab-Israeli conflict, U.S. foreign policy. http://www.hoover.org/fellows/8881 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://provost.gmu.edu/robinson/about/shaul-bakhash/ Magnus T. Bernhardsson Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History, Chairman of International Studies Program Williams College Areas of Expertise: Modern Iraqi history, U.S.-Iraqi relations 1900--2000, archaeology and nationalism in the Modern Middle East http://history.williams.edu/profile/mbernhar/ http://web.williams.edu/wp-etc/history/magnus/bio.html Abdelilah Bouasria Adjunct Professor of Political Science American University Areas of Expertise: North African and Middle Eastern politics, social movements, Moroccan Jewish diaspora, Sufism http://www.american.edu/profiles/students/ab8432a.cfm Steven Bowman Professor of Judaic Studies Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - Affiliate Faculty University of Cincinnati Areas of Expertise: Women in the Bible, Jews in Byzantium, Book of Yosippon, holocaust and resistance in Greece during World War II http://www.artsci.uc.edu/collegemain/faculty_staff/profile_details.aspx?ePID=NzIzNw%3D%3D 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/ David G. Cashin Professor of Intercultural Studies Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Ministry Areas of Expertise: Islamic history, theology, Muslim-Christian relations http://www.ciu.edu/discover-ciu/who-we-are/faculty-staff/david-g-cashin Jamsheed Choksy Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Professor of History Indiana University Areas of Expertise: Central Asia, South Asia, medieval Iran, Zoroastrianism http://www.indiana.edu/~ceus/faculty/choksy.shtml Mark R. Cohen Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University Area of Expertise: Jewish history in medieval Muslim countries. http://www.princeton.edu/nes/people/display_person.xml?netid=mrcohen&display=All David Cook Associate Professor of Religious Studies Rice University Areas of Expertise: Origins and historical development of Islam, Jihad, Islamic Mysticism http://reli.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=68 Michael Cook Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies Princeton University Areas of Expertise: Formation of Islamic civilization and the role played by religious values in that process. http://www.princeton.edu/nes/people/display_person.xml?netid=mcook&display=Core%20Faculty Patricia Crone Andrew W. Mellon Professor, School of Historical Studies Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey Areas of Expertise: Islamic history and religion. http://www.ias.edu/people/faculty-and-emeriti/crone 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 School of Advanced International Studies Professorial Lecturer of Middle East Studies Johns Hopkins University Areas of Expertise: Militant Islamic movements and terrorism. http://www.sais-jhu.edu/academics/non-degree/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 Professor of Political Science, Emeritus University of Notre Dame Areas of Expertise: The Arab-Israel conflict; Israeli politics, Middle Eastern international relations, international relations. http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/faculty-list/alan-dowty/ Richard Foltz Professor and Graduate Program Director, 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/faculty-and-research/faculty-members/full-time-faculty/bios/Foltz.php Robert O. Freedman Professor of Judaic Studies University of Maryland, Baltimore County Peggy Meyerhoff Pearlstone Professor of Political Science Emeritus Baltimore Hebrew University Areas of Expertise: Russian foreign policy toward the Middle East, Central Asia, Arab-Israeli conflict http://www.umbc.edu/judaic/faculty.php David Fromkin Professor of International Relations, History and Law Boston University Areas of Expertise: Modern Middle East politics, International Law http://www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/alphabetical/fromkin/ 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/people/faculty/anna-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 School of Advanced International 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://www.sais-jhu.edu/faculty/directory/bios/h/habeck.htm Aaron W. Hughes AGordon and Gretchen Gross Professor of Jewish Studies and Associate Director, Institute for Jewish thought and Heritage 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.sais-jhu.edu/faculty/directory/bios/h/habeck.htm 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/faculty/susan_jellissen.html Bruce Jentleson Professor of Public Policy Chairman and Political Science Duke University Areas of Expertise: U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. http://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/bwj Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Robert I. Williams Term Professor of History University of Pennsylvania Areas of Expertise: Iran, Ottoman empire http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/kashani-sabet.shtml 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://pia.gmu.edu/people/mkatz 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/people/kuran 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 Emeritus 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/person.html?emplid=44e1593ff9814fcdfb009bcd18ecb8db62afed19 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/people/display_person.xml?netid=blewis&display=All James E. Lindsay Associate Professor, Department of History Colorado State University Areas of Expertise: Medieval Islamic History. http://www.colostate.edu/dept/Hist/faculty/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/makiya.html 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/~alldrp/members/malti.html Ann E. Mayer Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics 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://143.60.16.30/socibeh_sciences/faculty.html Abbas Milani Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies Stanford University Areas of Expertise: U.S.-Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. http://abbasmilani.stanford.edu/ Guity Nashat Research Fellow Hoover Institution Professor Emerita of Islamic and Middle Eastern History University of Illinois at Chicago Areas of Expertise: women in the Middle East, Iran http://www.hoover.org/fellows/9874 http://history.las.uic.edu/history/people/emeriti Brendan O'Leary Lauder Professor of Political Science University of Pennsylvania Areas of Expertise: Iraq, Kurdistan, ethnic conflict, terrorism. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/polisci/people/standing-faculty/brendan-oleary 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 Senior Associate Professor of Middle East Studies School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University Areas of Expertise: Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Persian Gulf. http://www.sais-jhu.edu/faculty/directory/bios/p/pecastaing.htm Daniel C. Peterson Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic Brigham Young University Areas of Expertise: Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Arabic Language and Literature. http://humanities.byu.edu/directory/dcp6/ Art Pitz Adjunct Instructor of History St. Ambrose University Augustana College Areas of Expertise: Islamic Civiliation and Religion, Modern Middle East, Arab-Israeli Conflict. http://web.sau.edu/history/histfac.html http://www.augustana.edu/x15271.xml?pid=7rgKmbJ David S. Powers Professor of Islamic History and Law, Department Near Eastern Studies Cornell University Areas of Expertise: Islamic Civilization, Islamic History and Law, Classical Arabic Texts. http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/people/detail.cfm?netid=dsp4 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.nelc.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k56744&state=popup&topicid=icb.topic991821&view=view.do&viewParam_name=russell.html&viewParam_fname= Franck Salameh Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages Boston College Area of Expertise: Literary Arabic, History of Middle East Linguistics. http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/salamehCV.pdf Philip Carl Salzman Professor of Anthropology McGill University Areas of Expertise: Iran, India http://www.mcgill.ca/anthropology/faculty/fulltime/philipsalzman Saliba Sarsar Professor of Political Science and Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives Monmouth University Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli conflict, democratization http://www.mcgill.ca/anthropology/faculty/fulltime/philipsalzman 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/ Steven L. Spiegel Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Middle East Development UCLA Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli conflict, Middle Eastern political economics http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/people/faculty-pages/steven-l.-spiegel 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://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/stein.html Norman Stillman Professor and Schusterman/Josey Chair in Judaic History and Director of Judaic Studies University of Oklahoma Areas of Expertise: medieval and modern Jewish and Islamic History. http://www.ou.edu/cas/history/fac-staff-stillman.html John W. Swails Director of the Center for Israel and Middle East Studies Oral Roberts University Areas of Expertise: Iraq, Israel. http://webapps.oru.edu/new_php/academics/faculty_profile.php?id=64&k= 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 Ilan Troen Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Professor of Israel Studies Brandeis University Areas of Expertise: modern Israel http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/nejs/faculty/troen.html Abraham Udovitch Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Emeritus, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus Princeton University Areas of Expertise: Medieval Islam, Middle Eastern economic history http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/nejs/faculty/troen.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 and Chairman of the Department of History Immaculata College Areas of Expertise: France and Algeria. http://www.immaculata.edu/node/253 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 Professor Emeritus, Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago Areas of Expertise: Middle Eastern political economics http://www.marvinzonis.com
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