Faculty
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Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
Associate Professor of American Studies and English
Department: American Studies and English
Address: Nicholson House, 71 George Street,
Areas of interest: African American Literature and Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Race and Religion; Feminism and Islam
Faiz Ahmed
Associate Professor of History
Department: History
Address: 006 Peter B. Green House
Areas of interest: Islamic legal and constitutional history; students, scholars, and networks of learning; Ottoman Empire, Afghanistan, and the Persianate world; Islam in the Americas; ethics and politics of knowledge production on Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East.
Maan Alsahoui
Joukowsky Family Middle East Studies Librarian
Adjunct Assistant Professor of French Studies
Department: French Studies
Address: 84 Prospect Street
Areas of interest: French and francophone literature. Representation of Islam in the contemporary French fiction.
Sheila Bonde
Professor
Department: History of Art and Architecture
Address: Box 1855 Brown University
Areas of interest: History of Islamic Architecture.
Holly Case
Associate Professor
Department: History
Address: 306 Sharpe House
Areas of interest: Ottoman southeastern Europe, history of ideas, diplomacy.
Mark Cladis
Professor
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Philosophy of religion, religious ethics, and theory of religion (including the integration of these three subfields).
Hal Cook
John F Nickoll Professor
Department: Middle East Studies
Address: 200A Peter Green House
Areas of interest: history of medicine, South and SE Asia.
Emily Drumsta
Assistant Professor
Department: Comparative Literature
Address: Box E 346 Brook Street
Areas of interest: Modern Arabic Literature and Culture, Translation Studies, the Maghreb, Egypt, Palestine.
Lina M Fruzzetti
Professor of Anthropology
Department: Anthropology
Address: Box 1921 Brown University
Areas of interest: N Africa/East Africa Muslim societies, Issues of Islamic identities in Non Muslim societies, Islam and politics.
Susan Harvey
Professor
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Muslim-Christian relations; Syriac and Byzantine perspectives on Islam.
Nancy Khalek
Associate Professor
Department: Religious Studies
Address: Box 1927 Brown University
Areas of interest: Islamic history and historiography; material culture.
Thomas Lewis
Professor of Religious Studies
Department: Religious Studies
Address: Box 1927 Brown University
Areas of interest: Religion and Critical Thought
Sreemati Mitter
Assistant Professor
Department: History
Address: 79 Brown Street
Ourida Mostefai
Professor of Comparative Literature & French Studies
Department: Comparative Literature & French Studies
Address: 201 Rochambeau
Areas of interest: Enlightenment Orientalism; Islam in Contemporary France.
Elias Muhanna
Assistant Professor
Department: Comparative Literature
Address: Box E 208 Marston Hall
Areas of interest: Islamic history and thought, Arabic literature.
Adi Ophir
Visiting Professor
Department: The Cogut Center for the Humanities, MES
Address: Pembroke Hall 172 Meeting Street
Areas of interest: Political Theology, intellectual history, political theory, religion in politics.
Michael Satlow
Professor
Department: Religious Studies and Program in Judaic Studies
Address: Box 1826 Brown University
Areas of interest: Ancient history; comparative religion.
Holly Shaffer
Assistant Professor
Department: History of Art & Architecture
Address: 419 List Art Center
Areas of interest: South Asia, Print Culture, Artistic Practice Across Media.
Bhrigupati Singh
Assistant Professor
Department: Anthropology
Address: 128 Hope Street
Areas of interest: Political Theologies; Religion as a Form of Life; South Asia.
Meltem Toksoz
Associate Professor of History
Department: History
Address: Box N 79 Brown Street
Areas of interest: Ottoman history, historiography, global history.
Andre Willis
Assistant Professor
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Islam in US; Sufism; Islamic philosophy; African Americans.
Vazira Zamindar
Associate Professor of History
Department: History
Address: 79 Brown Street
Areas of interest: South Asia, Twentieth Century, Global History.
vfyz@brown.edu
Allison Levy
Allison Levy
Digital Scholarship Editor
Department: Brown University Library
Address: 101 Prospect Street
Areas of interest: Islam and Temporality; Historiography; Visual and Material Culture