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Niloofar Haeri

Program Chair, Islamic Studies
Professor, Anthropology

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462 Mergenthaler
410-516-5442

Research Interests: Islamic prayers and experiences of religiosity, gender, ritual, and language, public appearance and notions of modesty among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, social history of moral values in Iran since early 20th century; language ideology, vernacularization, and modernity. Egypt, Iran, and the Middle East

Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Ryan Calder

Director and DUS, Program in Islamic Studies, Assistant Professor, Sociology

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Mergenthaler 558
410-516-6678

Research Interests: Contemporary Muslim societies, sociology of markets, financialization, Islamic law and jurisprudence, comparative-historical research

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Fatimah Fanusie

Lecturer

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Research Interests: Twentieth-Century US, African American Islam, Civil Rights Movement, African Diaspora Culture

Education: PhD, Howard University

Arpan Roy

Research Associate

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Research Interests: Kinship, ethics, ethnicity, Islam, language, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Romani people

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Homayra Ziad

Senior Lecturer

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Mergenthaler 248

Research Interests: history, practice and literature of Islamic spirituality and virtue ethics; philosophical Sufism; Qur'an interpretation; contemporary Islam in the United States; Islam in the Mughal empire; language and subjectivity; religion and the arts; religion and vocation; community-based research; interreligious activism.

Education: Phd, Yale University

Paul Delnero

Associate Professor of Assyriology

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Gilman 122
410-516-7498

Research Interests: Assyriology including Mesopotamian religion, literature, education, textual archives, and ritual.

Tamer el-Leithy

Assistant Professor of History

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Gilman 330F
410-516-7575

Research Interests: Social/cultural history of the medieval Middle East and Mediterranean, history of religious difference

M. Ali Khan

Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy

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410-516-8545

Research Interests: An exploration of the interface of the vocabulary of commerce in Islamic studies and modern discourses of economics and finance with a view to the mutual illumination of both epistemological registers.

Naveeda Khan

Associate Professor of Anthropology

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410-516-7274

Research Interests: Bangladesh: riparian society, engineered landscapes and the theology of ecological consciousness and climate change; Pakistan: Islam and everyday life; urban anthropology; religion and theology; law and literature; techniques and technologies of perception; US and South Asia: temporality and emergent rationalities.

R. M. A. Noor

Assistant Professor, History

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Gilman 314

Research Interests: Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Islam, Sufism, Occultism, the Body, the Senses, and Kingship

Lawrence Principe

Drew Professor of the Humanities, History of Science and Technology

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410-516-4807

Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology, especially the history of alchemy/chemistry and issues of science and theology/religion

Ahmed Ragab

Chair, Medicine, Science, and the Humanities, Associate Professor, History of Medicine, School of Medicine

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Ünver Rüstem

Associate Professor, History of Art

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Research Interests: Early Modern Islamic Art

Rebecca Brown

Associate Professor, History of Art

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410-516-0345

Research Interests: South Asian art

Veena Das

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology

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410-516-0630

Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe

Andrew Halladay

Lecturer, History of Art

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Gilman 161

Research Interests: Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century South Asia, Cultural History, Social History, Popular Culture, Film History, Nationalism, Islam, Historical Memory, Language Politics, and Indian Cinema

Michael Harrower

Assistant Professor of Archaeology

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Gilman 140
410-516-7500

Research Interests: Archaeology of the Near East, Arabia, and Africa; water and water histories; geographic information systems (GIS); satellite imagery; spatial theory; agriculture; irrigation; landscape archaeology; complex polities