Students
Tanvir Ahmed
Graduate Student
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Activist social movements, millenarianism, Shi'ism, Sufism, Timurid and Safavid social and intellectual history.
Muntazir Ali
Graduate Student
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Philosophical and Religious Ethics; Sufism; Space, Body, and Temporality; South Asia.
Josiah Bisbee
Graduate Student
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Ancient Israelite religion, with special interest in Mesopotamian religions.
josiah_bisbee@brown.edu
Areas of interest: Ancient Israelite religion, with special interest in Mesopotamian religions.
josiah_bisbee@brown.edu
Katherine Freeze
Graduate Student
Department: Music
Address: 1 Young Orchard Avenue
Areas of interest: Music and Islam; Isma'ilism; Sufism and sung poetry; Central Asia; South Asia.
Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari
Graduate Student
Department: Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Address: 83 Waterman Street
Areas of interest: history of Islamic medicine, self-stigmatization, skin and surface, affect theory, inoperativity, framing and veiling (kalyptra), performative resistance, anxiety in performance
Maariyah Lateef
Graduate Student
Department: History
Address: 79 Brown Street
Areas of interest: Development of Islamic law, Islamic legal and ethical norms, Interactions between muftis and their communities, Late Ottoman history.
Kenneth Molloy
Graduate Student
Department: Theater and Performance
Address: 83 Waterman Street
Areas of interest: Performance theory, Theatricality and theatrical metaphor in Islam, Occultation and the unseen.
Michael Payne
Graduate Student
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Shi'ism, Mu'tazilism, and heresy in the social and intellectual history of Iraq and Iran.
Anabelle Suitor
Graduate Student
Department: Anthropology
Address: 128 Hope Street
Areas of interest: Bangladesh, Islamic cosmology, territory, multispecies ethnography, intimacy, ports and ocean networks.
Noah Tetenbaum
Graduate Student
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Jews in early Islam.
Cyril Uy
Graduate Student
Department: Religious Studies
Address: 59 George Street
Areas of interest: Mysticism, Philosophy, Esotericism, Identity, Social and Intellectual History, History of Science/Knowledge.
Suvaid Yaseen
Graduate Student
Department: History
Address: 79 Brown Street
Areas of interest: South Asia; Islam; Intellectual History.