Research Fellows

  • Saqer Almarri

    Research interests: Translation Studies, Trans* and Intersex Studies, Decoloniality Studies, Coloniality of Gender, and Gender and Islam

  • Noura Al Obeidli

    Research interests: Feminism, Patriarchy, Media Studies, News Sociology, Gender Politics, Women Empowerment, Anthropology, Journalism, Press Freedom, Media Ethics, and Media Law

  • Eli Dollarhide

    Research interests: Arabian archaeology; prehistoric Middle East; ancient landscapes; the origins of urbanism; cultural ecology; ceramics analysis

  • Marcel Kurpershoek

    Research interests: Nabati poetry, traditional art in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, and Bedouin culture

  • Jan Loop

    Research interests: the intellectual, religious and cultural history of Europe and the Near East, with a special focus on Western knowledge of the Arab, Ottoman and Persian world between 1450 – 1800

  • Kathryn Miller

    Research interests: Mediterranean cross-cultural trade, comparative legal history, Human Rights, medieval Iberia, and North Africa, religious minorities

  • Nathaniel Miller

    Research interests: Medieval Arabic Poetry

  • Rachel Schine

    Research interests: blackness, race, racialization, kinship, popular literature, adab, epic, sīra, Arabic literature, premodern, medieval, social history

  • Leila Tayeb

    Research interests: sound and militarism, political authority in daily life, indigeneity and race in/and northern Africa, Islam and the state, state-sponsored performance, dance studies

  • Nadia Yaqub

    Research interests: Arab World; Film, literature, and photography, Visual Culture, Gender

 

 Visiting Scholars

  • Anne-Lise Tropato

    Research interests: Artistic, intellectual and cultural international relationships during 16th and 17th centuries

Call for Applications

Apply to our first Graduate Student Workshop by December 10.