faculty
Niloofar Haeri
Program Chair, Islamic Studies
Professor, Anthropology
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- haeri@jhu.edu
- 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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- rcalder@jhu.edu
- 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
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
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Research Interests: Kinship, ethics, ethnicity, Islam, language, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Romani people
Homayra Ziad
Lecturer
Contact Information
- 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.
Education: Phd, Yale University
advisory board
Paul Delnero
Associate Professor of Assyriology
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- pdelner1@jhu.edu
- 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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- tamer.elleithy@jhu.edu
- 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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- akhan@jhu.edu
- 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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- nkhan5@jhu.edu
- 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.
Lawrence Principe
Drew Professor of the Humanities, History of Science and Technology
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- lmafp@jhu.edu
- 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
Assistant Professor, History of Art
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Research Interests: Early Modern Islamic Art
affiliated faculty
Rebecca Brown
Associate Professor, History of Art
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- rmbrown@jhu.edu
- 410-516-0345
Research Interests: South Asian art
Veena Das
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology
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- veenadas@jhu.edu
- 410-516-0630
Research Interests: Everyday life, ethics, anthropology and philosophy, urban transformations, poverty, violence, gender, social suffering, aesthetics, South Asia, Europe
Michael Harrower
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
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- mharrower@jhu.edu
- 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
Richard Jasnow
Professor, Near Eastern Studies
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- rjasnow@jhu.edu
- 410-516-8675
Research Interests: Egyptology
Theodore J. Lewis
Blum-Iwry Professor of Near Eastern Studies
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- tjl@jhu.edu
- 410-516-6791
Research Interests: Religions of ancient Israel and Syria; Hebrew Bible, Northwest Semitics (especially Ugaritic and Aramaic)
Yitzhak Melamed
Professor, Philosophy
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- ymelame1@jhu.edu
- 410-516-0568
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy; German idealism; metaphysics
Sarah Parkinson
Assistant Professor
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- Mergenthaler 284
Research Interests: Political Science and International Studies
Glenn M. Schwartz
Whiting Professor of Archeology, Near Eastern Studies
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- schwartz@jhu.edu
- Gilman 126
- 410-516-8492
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: The emergence and early history of urban societies in Syria and Mesopotamia
Todd Shepard
Associate Professor, History
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- tshep75@jhu.edu
- 410-516-8512
Research Interests: Modern France and French empire; decolonization; gender and sexuality
Nino Zchomelidse
Associate Professor, History of Art
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- nzchome1@jhu.edu
- 410-516-8857
Research Interests: Medieval art