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MENA Teaching in 2009-10 |
 Brian T. Edwards, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies (Co-Chair) |
literature, film, new media, higher education, public and cultural diplomacy, postcolonial and diaspora studies, globalization, cultures of circulation, American studies in MENA |
Morocco, Tunisia, North Africa, Egypt, Iran |
Arabic (Modern Standard and Colloquial Moroccan), French, Spanish, basic Persian |
Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (Duke UP, 2005); Globalizing American Studies, co-edited with Dilip Gaonkar (forthcoming, 2009); After the American Century: American Culture in Middle Eastern Circulation (book manuscript in progress) |
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ENGL 383 Globalization and Literature (Fall 09); COMP LIT 390 Reading Contemporary North Africa and the Middle East (Winter 10) |
 Katherine Hoffman, Associate Professor of Anthropology |
Language / Expressive Culture, Ethnicity / Indigenism, Language Ideologies, Language Shift and Endangerment, Gender, Migration, Rural-Urban Relations, French Colonialism, and Imazighen (Berbers) |
Morocco / North Africa, France |
French, Arabic (Modern Standard and Colloquial Moroccan), Tashelhit (southwestern Moroccan Berber), Italian |
We Share Walls: Language, Land and Gender in Berber Morocco (2008, Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture), Mirror of the Soul: Language, Islam, and Law in French Native Policy of Morocco (1912-1956)(book manuscript in progress), and editing Berbers and Others: Shifting Parameters of Ethnicity in the Contemporary Maghrib with Susan Gilson Miller (book manuscript in progress). |
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 Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Assistant Professor of Political Science (Co-Chair) |
cultural and normative foundations of international relations, religion and politics, political theory, law and politics, international relations theory, foreign policy |
relations between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East |
French, Spanish |
The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton UP, 2008); Varieties of Secularism: Religion, Politics, and Pluralism in a Global Age, co-edited with Linell Cady (manuscript in progress); Is Law Secular? Religion, Law and International Politics (book manuscript in progress). |
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 Henri Lauzière, Assistant Professor of History |
Islamic history, 20th-century Middle East and North Africa, intellectual history, Salafism |
Morocco, 20th-century Arab world, Gulf states |
French, Modern Standard Arabic |
"Post-Islamism and the Religious Discourse of 'Abd al-Salam Yasin," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 37 (2005): 241-261; The Transformation of Salafism in the Twentieth Century Through the Life and Thought of Taqi al-Din al-Hilali (book manuscript in progress). |
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 Hamid Naficy, John Evans Professor of Communication, Department of Radio-TV-Film, School of Communication |
cinema and media studies, cultural studies and theories of culture and globalization, diaspora and exile studies, national and regional cinemas of third world, Middle East, Iran, and Islam, cinema, and visual culture. |
Iran, Palestine, Turkey, US |
English, Persian, French, Arabic |
Cinema, Modernity, and National Identity: A Social History of a Century of Iranian Cinema. Duke University Press, two volumes (forthcoming 2009). An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place. London & New York: Routledge, 1999 (edited). The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged. New York: Harwood Academic Publishing, 1993 (Co-edited with Teshome Gabriel). Iran Media Index. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. Film-e Mostanad [Documentary Film], two volumes, Tehran: Daneshgah Azad Press, 1979. |
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 Inna F. Naroditskaya, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology |
music, gender, politics; anthropology, Slavic, Middle-Eastern studies |
Azerbaijani musical culture, gender, Islam and music, Russian eighteenth-century music and politics, post Soviet 'Eastern' states |
Russian, Azeri, French |
Song From Land of Fire: Hundred Years of Azerbaijanian Music Through the Prism of Mugham (New York: Routledge, 2003); Music and Sirens, co-edited with Linda Austern (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006); Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities, co-edited with Ursula Hemetek (London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2004), and Tsarinas in Histories and Operas (under contract, Oxford University Press). |
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 Wendy Pearlman, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies |
Political violence, nationalism, politics of weak states and nonstate actors, emigration, the Arab-Israeli conflict, politics in the Arab Levant. |
Palestine, Lebanon, Israel |
Arabic, Spanish, basic Hebrew |
Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada (Nation Books, 2003); "Spoiling Inside and Out: Internal political contestation and the Middle East peace process" (International Security, Winter 2008/09) Conflict in Fragments: External violence and internal unity in the Palestinian national movement, 1918-2006 (book manuscript in progress) |
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Poli Sci 101 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Fall 09); Poli Sci 390: Middle East Politics (Winter 10) |
 Carl Petry, Professor of History |
Islamic World and North Africa, medieval and modern Egypt, and the social history of the Middle East |
Medieval Islamic World (Egypt in particular) |
Arabic (Modern Standard and Egyptian Colloquial), French, and German |
The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages (1982), Twilight of Majesty: The Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans al-Ashraf Qaytbay and Qansuh al-Ghawri in Egypt (1993), and Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power (1994). Editor and contributor to The Cambridge History of Egypt: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517 (1998, 2006). |
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HIST 270 Middle Eastern/Islamic Civilization (Fall 09); HIST 392/395 Revolutionary Egypt under Nasser and Sadat (Fall 09) |
 Kristen Stilt, Associate Professor of Law; Associate Professor of History |
socio-legal history; Islamic law in classical formulations and contemporary understandings |
law as applied in medieval and modern contexts; constitutional law in Muslim world |
Arabic (Modern Standard and Egyptian); German, French |
The Experience of Law in Medieval Cairo (in progress) |
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 Muhammad Sani Umar, Associate Professor of Religion |
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 Jessica Winegar, Assistant Professor of Anthropology |
cultural politics and culture industries, material and visual culture, nationalism, Islam, neoliberalism, social class, youth, and gender |
Egypt, US |
Arabic (Modern Standard and Egyptian) |
Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford, 2006, Winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award); “The Question of Africanity in North African Visual Culture,” Special issue of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. Co-edited with Katarzyna Pieprzak, Fall 2009; “The Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on Terror,” Anthropological Quarterly, 81(3):651-681, 2008; "Cultural Sovereignty in a Global Art Economy: Egyptian Cultural Policy and the New Western Interest in Art from the Middle East.” Cultural Anthropology 21(2):173-204, 2006. |
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ANTHRO 330 Anthropology of the Middle East (Fall 09); ANTHRO 101 (Freshman Seminar) Middle Eastern Popular Culture (Winter 10) |
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| Risa Brooks, Assistant Professor of Political Science |
International Security, Civil-military Relations, Terrorist Organizations |
USA, Middle East and comparative |
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Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment (Princeton, 2008) |
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| Hannah Feldman, Assistant Professor of Art History |
20th and 21st century art history and visual culture, urban studies, critical theory |
Research areas: decolonization and representation; art and war |
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AH 260 Introducution to Contemporary Art (Winter 10); AH 360 Postmodernism (Spring 10) |
| Dilip Gaonkar, Rhetoric and Communication Studies |
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| Nasrin Qader, Assistant Professor of French |
Contemporary literatures in French, Arabic, Persian; philosophy and literature; Islamic thought and mysticism |
African literature (French and Arabic); literary theory |
English, French, Arabic, Persian, Spanish |
Narratives of Catastrophe: Boris Diop, ben Jelloun, Khatibi. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009 (forthcoming in March). "Writing Worlds between Dream and Terror" (book manuscript in progress). |
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| Rüdiger Seesemann, Assistant Professor of Religion |
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| Mary Ann Walter, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics |
speech science, multilingual societies, language contact and change, Middle Eastern languages |
phonology and phonetics; sociology of language in the Middle East |
Arabic, Spanish |
"The Effects of Inventory on Vowel Perception in French and Spanish: An MEG Study.” Brain and Language (2007). Sound patterns in Paralinguistic Speech and Language in the Global Gulf (book manuscripts in progress). |
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| Lynn Whitcomb, Program of African and Asian Languages (PAAL) |
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