Niloofar Haeri

Program Chair, Islamic Studies
Professor, Anthropology

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

• 410-516-5442
• haeri@jhu.edu
• 462 Mergenthaler
• 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

Homayra Ziad

Director, Program in Islamic Studies
Lecturer

Phd, Yale University

• hziad1@jhu.edu
• 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.

Ryan Calder

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Islamic Studies
Assistant Professor, Sociology

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

• 410-516-6678
• rcalder@jhu.edu
• Mergenthaler 558
• Research Interests: Contemporary Muslim societies, sociology of markets, financialization, Islamic law and jurisprudence, comparative-historical research

Gabriele Ferrario

Visiting Assistant Professor

• 410-516-4503
• gferrar3@jhu.edu
• Gilman 301
• Research Interests: Sciences in the medieval Arabo-Islamic world, history of alchemy, transmission of scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages, philology of medieval Arabic and Hebrew manuscripts.