POLITICAL SCIENCE

Kathleen Bailey
Central Asian Politics; Russian Politics; Balkans

Ali Banuazizi
Middle Eastern Politics; Political Culture; Religion and Politics

Nasser Behnegar
Early, Modern, and Contemporary Political Theory; American Political Thought; Comparative Ideologies

Paul Christensen
Russian Politics; Social Movements; Globalization

Jonathan Laurence
Western European Politics

Peter Krause
International Security; Middle East Politics; Non-State Violence; Social Movements

Peter Skerry
Racial and Ethnic Politics; Immigration Policy

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ENGLISH

Kalpana Seshadri
Bristish Colonialism in India; Political Theory; The Philosophy of Race

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THEOLOGY

Natana Delong-Bas
Theology

Raymond Helmick, S.J.
Faith in Conflict; Theology and the Ethics of War

James Morris
Islamic Theology; Islamic Spirituality; Islamic Philosophy

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FINE ARTS

Sheila Blair
Islamic Art, especially Iran and Central Asia; Art and Architecture under the Mongols; Calligraphy and Books.

Jonathan Bloom
Islamic Art and Architecture; The History of Paper; Art in the Medieval Mediterranean World.

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HISTORY

Benjamin Braude
Race and the Construction of Collective Identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman History; Jewish History

Prasannan Parthasarathi
Modern South Asian History; British Empire; Labor History; Economic History

Dana Sajdi
Pre-modern Middle Eastern History, especially Ottoman; Popular and Learned Literary Cultures; Historiography; Book History and Urban History

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ROMANCE LANGUAGES

Dwayne Carpenter
Romance Languages

Ourida Mostefai
18th-century French Literature; Rousseau; Pamphlets and Polemical Literature; Strategies of Reading and Censorship

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SLAVIC & EASTERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

M. J. Connolly
Slavic Languages; Slavic Studies; Linguistics

Mariela Dakova
Bulgarian Language; Slavic Studies

Atef Ghobrial
Arabic Language

Franck Salameh
Arabic Language; Arab Nationalism and Identity; Linguistic Nationalism

Cynthia Simmons
Slavic Studies; Slavic Women; Linguistics

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ECONOMICS

Hossein Kazemi
Monetary Economics; International Finance

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