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Area Coordinator:
John Damis Ph.D.
Chair and Professor of Political Science, Urban and Public Affairs
Teaching interests: North African and Middle Eastern Politics.
Research interests: Morocco.
Core Faculty:
Aomar Boum Ph.D.
Professor of Middle East Studies, International Studies Faculty
Teaching interests: Teaching interests:
Middle East and North and Sub-Saharan Africa: memory and narratives,
Jews of the Islamic World, Islamic history and movements, urbanization
and development, Arab media, Berbers and other N. African minorities,
migration.
K. Pellin Basci Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies, Foreign Languages and Literature
Kimberley Brown Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Linguistics and International Affairs
Teaching interests: International Studies and Linguistics.
Research interests: Cultural learning and World Englishes.
Grant Farr Ph.D.
Chair and Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Modern Iran, Global Societies.
Dirgham Sbait Ph.D.
Professor of Arabic (Semetic) Languages and Folk Literature, Foreign Languages and Literature
Teaching interests: Arabic and Hebrew languages.
Research interests: Arab and Palestine folk literature and poetry.
Nohad Toulan Ph.D.
Dean, Urban and Public Affairs
Associated Faculty:
L. Rudolph Barton Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Archaeology
Teaching interests: Architecture and urban design.
Research interests: Design of the urban realm, architecture regionalism.
Shervin Behroozian Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Persian, Foreign Languages and Literature
Karen Carr Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History
Walter Ellis Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Professor, Public Administration, Urban and Public Affairs
Teaching interests: Public Administration and Human Resource administration systems.
Research interests: Institution-building, development administration.
Joshua Stampfer Ph.D.
Stephen Wadley Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chinese, Foreign Languages and Literature.
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