People
faculty
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Niloofar Haeri
Director, Program in Islamic Studies; Professor, Anthropology
PhD, University of Pennsylvania410-516-5442 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
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Ryan Calder
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Assistant Professor, Sociology
PhD, University of California, Berkeley410-516-6678 rcalder@jhu.edu Mergenthaler 558
Research Interests: Contemporary Muslim societies, sociology of markets, financialization, Islamic law and jurisprudence, comparative-historical research
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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.
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Homayra Ziad
Lecturer
Phd, Yale Universityhziad1@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.
advisory board
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Paul Delnero
Associate Professor
410-516-7498 pdelner1@jhu.edu Gilman 122
Research Interests: Assyriology including Mesopotamian religion, literature, education, textual archives, and ritual.
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Tamer el-Leithy
Assistant Professor of History
410-516-7575 tamer.elleithy@jhu.edu Gilman 330F
Research Interests: Social/cultural history of the medieval Middle East and Mediterranean, history of religious difference
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M. Ali Khan
Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy
410-516-8545 akhan@jhu.edu
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.
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Naveeda Khan
Associate Professor of Anthropology
410-516-7274 nkhan5@jhu.edu
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.
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Glenn M. Schwartz
Whiting Professor of Archeology, Near Eastern Studies
410-516-8492 schwartz@jhu.edu Gilman 126
Research Interests: The emergence and early history of urban societies in Syria and Mesopotamia
affiliated faculty
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Sara Berry
Academy Professor and Professor Emeritus, History
Research Interests: Her current research focuses on struggles over land in 20th and 21st century Africa, and their many ramifications for social, political, and economic change.
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Rebecca Brown
Associate Professor, History of Art
410-516-0345 rmbrown@jhu.edu
Research Interests: South Asian art
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Veena Das
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology
410-516-0630 veenadas@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe
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Michael Harrower
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
410-516-7500 mharrower@jhu.edu Gilman 140
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
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Richard Jasnow
Professor, Near Eastern Studies
410-516-8675 rjasnow@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Egyptology
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Christopher Lakey
Assistant Professor, History of Art
410-516-0554 clakey@jhu.edu Gilman 184
Research Interests: intersections between monumental sculpture and painting and medieval visual theory
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Theodore J. Lewis
Blum-Iwry Professor of Near Eastern Studies
410-516-6791 tjl@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Religions of ancient Israel and Syria; Hebrew Bible, Northwest Semitics (especially Ugaritic and Aramaic)
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Yitzhak Melamed
Professor, Philosophy
410-516-0568 ymelame1@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy; German idealism; metaphysics
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Sarah Parkinson
Assistant Professor
Mergenthaler 284
Research Interests: Political Science and International Studies
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Lawrence Principe
Drew Professor of the Humanities, History of Science and Technology
410-516-4807 lmafp@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Early modern and late medieval science and technology, especially the history of alchemy/chemistry and issues of science and theology/religion
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Ünver Rüstem
Assistant Professor, History of Art
Research Interests: Early Modern Islamic Art
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Todd Shepard
Associate Professor, History
410-516-8512 tshep75@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Modern France and French empire; decolonization; gender and sexuality
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Nino Zchomelidse
Assistant Professor, History of Art
410-516-8857 nzchome1@jhu.edu
Research Interests: Medieval art
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