Islamic Studies Minor Faculty
Faculty Advisor
Name | Contact | Specialties |
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Nabil Matar English and History |
330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 [email protected] |
Early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, 17th century British religious literature |
Advisory Committee
Name | Contact | Specialties |
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Cawo Abdi Associate Professor Sociology |
1146 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3714 [email protected] |
Migration, transnationalism, Islam, race, class, gender, globalization |
Assistant Professor |
369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center [email protected] |
Anthropology of religion and secularism, political and legal anthropology, violence, liberalism sovereignty, U.S. constitutional and environmental law, Islamic law, psychoanalysis, courtroom ethnography, social theory; Islam and Muslim communities in the United States |
Nida Sajid Assistant Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
260 Nicholson Hall 612-625-2015 [email protected] |
South Asian Literature and Culture, Modern Muslim World and Islam in South Asia, Empire and Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies |
Faculty
Name | Contact | Specialties |
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Giancarlo Casale Associate Professor History |
1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 [email protected] |
Ottoman Empire, intellectual life in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries |
Sinem Casale Assistant Professor Art History |
346 Heller Hall 612-626-6342 [email protected] |
Islamic art and architecture, with an emphasis on the history and visual culture of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals |
Kathleen Collins Associate Professor Political Science |
1331 Social Sciences Building
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Religion and politics, particularly Islam and politics, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Soviet and post-Soviet political development in Russia and the successor states, democratization and political transition, clan, tribal, and ethnic politics |
Joseph Farag Assistant Professor Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
220 Folwell Hall
612-625-6534
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Palestinian Literature and Culture, Modern Arabic Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Criticism |
Michael Gallope, Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature |
235A Nicholson Hall
612-624-1538
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Music and Sound Studies, Philosophy and Intellectual History, Music of the African Diaspora, Cultural History and Ethnography Global Modernisms |
Joseph Gerteis Associate Professor Sociology |
1125 Social Science Building
612-624-1615
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Historical Sociology, Politics and Social Movements, Social Theory, Diversity and Solidarity in American Society |
Aisha Ghani Assistant Professor Anthropology and Religious Studies |
369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center [email protected] |
Anthropology of religion and secularism, political and legal anthropology, violence, liberalism sovereignty, U.S. constitutional and environmental law, Islamic law, psychoanalysis, courtroom ethnography, social theory; Islam and Muslim communities in the United States |
Carol Hakim Associate Professor History |
1235 Heller Hall
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Nationalism and intellectual history, State formation, state-society relations, and authoritarianism in the Arab world, Political and economic development of the Arab world in the late 19th- and 20th-centuries |
Michelle Hamilton Spanish & Portuguese Studies |
209 Folwell Hall 612-625-6661 [email protected] |
Jews, Muslims, and Christians in medieval Iberia; Maimonides; Ibn Rushd; Christian mystics; Moriscos; mysticism |
Diyah Larasati Associate Professor Theatre Arts & Dance |
425 Ford Hall
612-624-9326
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Study of Archive, Memory of Violence, Creative Projects in Post-Conflict/War Zones (Asia), Performing Arts in Global Politics & Culture, Dancing Body, Tourism & Female Citizenship, Genocide/Massacre Cultural Reconstruction, Politics of Human Rights and Creative Arts, Dancing Body in Southeast Asian Islam, Aesthetics of Traditional/Indigenous Space and Embodiment |
Professor
Classical & Near Eastern Studies |
258 Nicholson Hall 612-625-4323 [email protected] |
Hebrew Bible, Jewish studies, history of interpretation, literary approaches to biblical studies, divine revelation |
Patricia Lorcin Professor History |
1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 [email protected] |
Modern France and French imperialism, Race and Racial ideology in France and its colonies, Western Imperialism, Colonialism, Post-colonial Studies |
Michael Lower History |
1122 Heller Hall
612-624-2800
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Medieval Mediterranean, the Crusades, Christian-Muslim Relations, North Africa |
Matthew Rahaim Associate Professor School of Music |
170 Ferguson Hall 612-624-2393 [email protected] |
South Asia, vocal and bodily practices, ethical self-cultivation, phenomenology, performance, ethnography, sonic ecology |
Kathryn Reyerson Professor History |
1120 Heller Hall
612-624-8569
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Mediterranean World, Medieval Europe, Medieval France, Social and economic history, Legal history, World History |
Hassan Abdel Salam Assistant Professor Sociology |
[email protected] | Cultural Sociology, Global Sociology, Sociology of law, Sociology of Religion, Human Rights, Islam, Research Methods |
Abdi Samatar Professor Geography, Environment & Society |
414 Social Sciences Building
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Development theory and the state capitalist development, environment and development, political economy, agrarian change, Ethnic politics, East and Southern Africa, Third World Islamic world, Botswana, Somalia, Ethiopia |
Daniel Schroeter Professor History |
1018 Heller Hall 612-624-2800 [email protected] |
Jewish studies, Middle East, north Africa |
Sima Shakhsari Assiociate Professor Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies |
Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice, Transnational Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Social Media, Diasporas, Refugee Studies, Political Anthropology, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Studies of Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Civil Society | |
Shaden Tageldin Associate Professor Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature |
218 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8445 [email protected] |
19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, French, empire and postcolonial studies, critical translation theory, political of language, literary form, genre, histories and ideologies of comparative literature, aesthetics and biologics of race, nation, culture, literatures of migration and diaspora |
Katrien Vanpee Director of Arabic Language Instruction Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
220 Folwell Hall
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Pre-Islamic, Classical and Modern Arabic Poetry, Classical and Modern Arabic Literature, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Nabati Poetry Cultural Heritage of the Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Gulf Studies |