Faculty
Regular Faculty
Faculty Emeritus
Associated Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
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Asli Igsiz
Assistant Professor
Research/Interest: Nineteenth and twentieth-century literary cultures and cultural representation in the Ottoman State, Turkey, Greece, and France; cultural history and memory; minority cultures, cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism; governmentality; forced migration; comparative methodologies; multidisciplinary epistemologies.
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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Professor
Email: zbd1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Global History, Early Modern and Modern Chinese History, Asian and European Islam, Religion and World History, Middle Eastern History, History of Geography, Arab-Jewish and Mizrahi History
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Peter J Chelkowski
Professor
Email: pc5@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: literature, mysticism, Islamic studies and performing arts of the Middle East.
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Medhat Credi
Language Lecturer
Email: mec15@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Arabic philology, linguistics, translation
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Tamer el-Leithy
Assistant Professor
Email: tamer.elleithy@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Social and Cultural History of the Medieval Middle East and Mediterranean;
History of Religious Difference, esp. Conversion, Martyrdom, and Communal Violence; Coptic history;
Family History; Islamic Law and Society; Arabic and Judeo-Arabic/Geniza Documents; Medieval Archives.
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Sibel Erol
Clinical Professor
Email: sibel.erol@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Turkish Language; role of writing in teaching language; the uses of literature in language teaching; the novel; nationalism; women authors; postmodernism; masculinities; film
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Ahmed Ferhadi
Clinical Professor
Email: af3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Second Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Language Testing and pedagogical applications of technology.
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Michael Gilsenan
Professor
Email: michael.gilsenan@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Anthropology and sociology of Islam; history and anthropology, narrative theory; anthropology of power and violence; urban studies; cultural representation.
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Ogden Goelet
Associate Research Scholar
Research/Interest: Religion and history of ancient Egyptian culture.
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Hala Halim
Assistant Professor
Email: hh47@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: modern Arabic, English and Anglophone literatures; postcolonial theory and alternative modernities; autobiography, autoethnography, and travel writing; theory and practice of translation; cosmopolitanism, globalization, gender, and the city.
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Gabriela Nik. Ilieva
Clinical Associate Professor
Email: gni1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit, Medieval Indian poetics, historical Indo-Aryan linguistics, foreign language pedagogy
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Marion Holmes Katz
Associate Professor
Email: marion.katz@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: My research interests revolve primarily around issues of Islamic law (shari'a), gender, and ritual.
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Philip F. Kennedy
Associate Professor
Email: philip.kennedy@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval Arabic language and literature; classical poetry and poetics; adab; narrative and fiction; recognition/anagnorisis in literature; Qur'an and Tafsir
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Arang Keshavarzian
Associate Professor
Email: arang.keshavarzian@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Comparative politics and political economy; Middle East politics; modern Iran
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Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
Clinical Professor
Email: mmk4@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Computer-based language training; modern Persian literature
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Zachary Lockman
Professor
Email: zachary.lockman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern Middle Eastern history.
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Intisar A. Rabb
Associate Professor
Research/Interest: Islamic law: law and society, legal history, legal theory; Islamic and comparative constitutionalism; History of the Qur'anic text
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Everett K. Rowson
Associate Professor
Research/Interest: Medieval Islamic literature; law; theology; gender and society.
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Ella Shohat
Professor
Email: es100@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Arab-Jews and Memory; Representation of Palestine and Israel; Hebrew Mizrahi Literature and Cinema; Iraqi Culture; Arab-American and Arab Diasporic Studies; Media/Cultural Studies; Visual Culture; Gender Studies; Postcolonial Studies.
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Nader K. Uthman
Clinical Assistant Professor
Email: nader@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Arabic Language, Literature & Culture; Comparative Literature; Poetics of Exile and Displacement; Arabic Pedagogy; Translation
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Robert D. McChesney
Email: rdm1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early modern history of Iran and Central Asia.
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Mona N. Mikhail
Email: mnm1@is.nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern and contemporary Arabic language and literature; gender studies
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Francis E. Peters
Email: frank.peters@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Islamic history and religion; comparative Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Sinan Antoon
Email: sa234@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Arabo-Islamic culture; classical and modern Arabic poetry; the modern Arabic novel; the Arabic prose-poem; Iraqi politics
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Benoit Challand
Email: benoit.challand@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Political sociology, Arab politics, religion and identity, and social theory
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Finbarr Barry Flood
Email: barry.flood@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Art and architecture of the Islamic world; Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture; Theories and practices of image-making; Technologies of representation; Art historical historiography, methodology, and theory; and Orientalism.
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Michael A. Gomez
Email: michael.gomez@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: African diaspora; Islam in West Africa; Slavery
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Alfred L. Ivry
Email: alfred.ivry@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, medieval philosophy, history of philosophy, modern Jewish thought.
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Ali Mirsepassi
Research/Interest: Islam, democracy and modernity; Iranian history, politics and culture
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Leslie Peirce
Email: lp50@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: early modern Ottoman history, gender, law & society, comparative empires
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S.J. Pearce
Email: sjp264@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Hebrew and Arabic literature of Iberia; mester de clerecía; 12th- and 13th-century Castile; the translation movement; history and literature of the "tres culturas"; literary representations of Alexander the Great; history of literature; historical readings of literature; codicology
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Helga Tawil-Souri
Email: helga@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Middle East and Arab media, contemporary Palestinian culture and politics, ethnographic film-making
