Islamic Studies Minor Faculty

Faculty Advisor

Name	Contact	Specialties
Nabil Matar English and History	330C Lind Hall 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu	Early modern Euro-Islamic contacts, 17th century British religious literature

Advisory Committee

Name	Contact	Specialties
Cawo Abdi Associate Professor Sociology	1146 Social Sciences Building 612-624-3714 cabdi@umn.edu	Migration, transnationalism, Islam, race, class, gender, globalization
Aisha Ghani Assistant Professor Anthropology and Religious Studies	369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center aghani@umn.edu	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 nsajid@umn.edu	South Asian Literature and Culture, Modern Muslim World and Islam in South Asia, Empire and Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Name

Contact

Specialties

Cawo Abdi
Associate Professor
Sociology

1146 Social Sciences Building
612-624-3714
cabdi@umn.edu

Migration, transnationalism, Islam, race, class, gender, globalization

Aisha Ghani

Assistant Professor
Anthropology and Religious Studies

369 Hubert H. Humphrey Center
aghani@umn.edu

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
nsajid@umn.edu

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
Giancarlo Casale Associate Professor History	1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 casale@umn.edu	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 sinem@umn.edu	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 colli433@umn.edu	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 jrfarag@umn.edu	Palestinian Literature and Culture, Modern Arabic Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Criticism
Michael Gallope, Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literature	235A Nicholson Hall 612-624-1538 mgallope@umn.edu	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 gerte004@umn.edu	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 aghani@umn.edu	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 hakimc@umn.edu	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 hamilton@umn.edu	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 laras001@umn.edu	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
Bernard Levinson Professor Classical & Near Eastern Studies	258 Nicholson Hall 612-625-4323 levinson@umn.edu	Hebrew Bible, Jewish studies, history of interpretation, literary approaches to biblical studies, divine revelation
Patricia Lorcin Professor History	1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 plorcin@umn.edu	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 mlower@umn.edu	Medieval Mediterranean, the Crusades, Christian-Muslim Relations, North Africa
Matthew Rahaim Associate Professor School of Music	170 Ferguson Hall 612-624-2393 mrahaim@umn.edu	South Asia, vocal and bodily practices, ethical self-cultivation, phenomenology, performance, ethnography, sonic ecology
Kathryn Reyerson Professor History	1120 Heller Hall 612-624-8569 reyer001@umn.edu	Mediterranean World, Medieval Europe, Medieval France, Social and economic history, Legal history, World History
Hassan Abdel Salam Assistant Professor Sociology	asalamha@umn.edu	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 samat001@umn.edu	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 schro800@umn.edu	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 tageldin@umn.edu	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 kvanpee@umn.edu	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