Membership in the Center is open to all UNC students, faculty, and staff. To become a member of the Center, e-mail mideast@unc.edu.
| Name | Department | Area of Specialization |
|---|---|---|
| Shahla Adel | Asian Studies | Persian and Iranian Studies |
| Neel Ahuja | English and Comparative Literature | Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies (South Asian Diaspora) |
| Sahar Amer | Asian Studies | Arabic, European Orientalism |
| Urooj Amjad | Environmental Sciences and Engineering/The Water Institute | Israel-Palestine water management issues |
| Martine Antle | Romance Languages and Literature | Twentieth-century French studies, Franco-Arabic relations, African Francophone literature |
| Glaire Anderson | Art History | Early and medieval Islamic art, al-Andalus |
| Lorraine Aragon | Anthropology | Indonesia |
| Yaakov Ariel | Religious Studies | Judaism |
| Cemil Aydin | History | Modern Middle Eastern History and Modern Asian history, with an emphasis on the international and intellectual histories of the Ottoman and Japanese Empires |
| Farida Badr | Asian Studies | Arabic language and culture |
| Christopher Bail | Sociology | Muslim minorities in the West |
| Navin Bapat | Political Science | Terrorism and international relations |
| Ronald Bergquist | Information and Library Science | Library science |
| Emily Burrill | Women’s Studies | Gender and imperialism, women and the law in modern Africa and the Middle East; marriage practices in Mali |
| John Caldwell | Hindi-Urdu | Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Hindi-Urdu |
| Peter Coclanis | International Affairs | South/Southeast Asia |
| Michael Corrado | Law School | Comparative law |
| Lidewijde de Jong | Classics | Early Islamic archaeology of the Near East, particularly Syria and Lebanon |
| Ibrahim Duqum | Prosthodontics Department, School of Dentistry | Didactic, pre-clinical and clinical Fixed, Removable, and Implant Prosthodontics |
| Doria El Kerdany | Asian Studies | Arabic language, culture, film, and music |
| Mohamed Abou El Seoud | Daivs Library | Middle East Librarian |
| Bart Ehrman | Religious Studies | New Testament; early Christianity |
| Geni Eng | Public Health | HIV/AIDS prevention |
| Carl Ernst | Religious Studies | Middle East and South Asia |
| Raymond B. Farrow | Kenan-Flagler School of Business | |
| Emma Flatt | History | Persianate culture in South Asia |
| Tim Flood | Kenan-Flagler School of Business | Presentation skills, business writing, global communication, and American culture and business practices |
| Pika Ghosh | Art History | South Asian art and architecture |
| Banu Gökariksel | Geography | Turkey, Indonesia |
| Mustafa Gültekin | Kenan-Flagler School of Business | Turkey |
| Joseph Haj | Playmakers Repertory Theater |
Theater, Palestine |
| Zeina Halabi | Asian Studies | Arabic Literature |
| Juliane Hammer | Religious Studies | Islamic studies |
| Adel Hanna | Environmental Program | Climate change |
| Nasser Isleem | Asian Studies | Arabic |
| Fatimah Jackson | Institute of African American Research | Anthropology |
| Charles Joukhadar | Asian Studies | Arabic language and culture |
| Zahra Kamarei | Asian Studies | Persian |
| Charles Kurzman | Sociology | Iran and Islamic movements |
| David Lambert | Religious Studies | Hebrew Bible |
| Priscilla Layne | Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature | Literature, Film and Music (German/Turkey) |
| Christopher Lee | History | Africa, Afro-Asian relations, post-colonialism, the nation-state paradigm |
| David Leith | Environmental Sciences and Engineering | Environment (air); occupational health; technology |
| Jacqueline MacDonald | Gillings School of Global Public Health | Environment (general); environment (soil); environment (water) |
| Jodi Magness | Religious Studies | Middle East archaeology |
| Tim Marr | American Studies | U.S. Orientalism |
| Winifred F. Metz | Library | Film and media |
| Mabel Miguel | Kenan-Flagler School of Business | Turkey |
| Don Nonini | Anthropology | Malaysia |
| Julius Nyang’Oro | African Afro-American Studies | East Africa |
| Leena Nylander-French | Environmental Sciences and Engineering | Occupational Health |
| Anthony Oberschall | Sociology | Ethnic conflict in Israel/Palestine, Bosnia |
| Jim Peacock | Anthropology | Southeast Asia |
| John Pickles | Geography | Bulgaria-Turkey |
| Zlatko Plese | Religious Studies | Gnosticism, monasticism, early Christianity, Coptic studies |
| Shelli Plesser | Asian Studies | Hebrew |
| Barry Popkin | Gillings School of Global Public Health | Obesity economics and epidemiology |
| Howard Reisner | Pathology | |
| Andrew Reynolds | Political Science | State-building in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan |
| Omid Safi | Religious Studies | Islam, Iran, Turkey, Middle East |
| Kenneth Sams | Classics | Near Eastern archaeology |
| Mamarame Seck | African & Afro-American Studies | Wolof language and literature, Sufism |
| Bereket Selassie | African & Afro-American Studies | North-East Africa |
| Iqbal Sevea | History | Islam in South Asia |
| Yaron Shemer | Asian Studies | Arab and Israeli film studies, Hebrew language |
| Sarah Shields | History | Middle East |
| Jill Shires | Library | Music |
| Beverly A. Sizemore | Director of International Programs, Law School | Anthropology |
| Sara H. Smith | Geography |
Political and social geography, nationalism, health, South Asia |
| Hanna Sprintzik | Asian Studies | Hebrew |
| David Steffen | Gillings School of Global Public Health | Distance education, ethics, public health practice and systems, healthcare quality improvement, workforce development |
| Niklaus Steiner | Center for Global Initiatives | Refugees |
| Barbara Stenross | Academic Advising | Sufism |
| Jacob Stromberg | Religious Studies | Hebrew Bible |
| Afroz Taj | Asian Studies | Hindi-Urdu language and literature |
| Nilay Tanik Argon | Statistics and Operations Research | Design and control of queuing systems with applications to manufacturing and healthcare |
| Zeynep Tufekci | School of Information and Library Sciences | Social impacts of technology |
| John Van Aalst | Pediatric and Craniofacial Plastic Surgery | Pediatric plastic surgery; craniofacial surgery; cleft lip and palate |
| Rodney J. Vargas | Study Abroad Office | Latin America, Africa and the Middle East Programs Director |
| Dorothy Verkerk | Art History | Morocco |
| William Vizuete | Gillings School of Global Public Health | Air quality, atmospheric chemistry, air quality modeling |
| Ellen Welch | Romance Languages | Early modern Mediterranean studies and French-Arabic relations |
| Dale Whittington | Environment Sciences and Engineering | Middle East water resources |
| Nadia Yaqub | Asian Studies | Arabic |
| Karin Yeatts | Gillings School of Global Public Health | Epidemiology |
| Serhan Ziya | Statistics and Operations Research | Pricing and inventory control, pricing for service systems, revenue management and service operations; optimal control of queuing systems, health operations |
| Cangüzel Zülfikar | Asian Studies | Turkish and history of the Ottomans and Turkey |
| Fahir Zülfikar | Disbursement Services | Islamic business ethics |
| Name | Department | Area of Specialization |
|---|---|---|
| Yousuf Al-Bulushi | Geography (Graduate Student) | Political Economy, Urban Geography, Social Theory, Globalization and Development, Southern and Central Africa |
| Kate Allman | School of Education (Graduate Student) | Arab-American students in the southern United States |
| Sumayya Ahmed | School of Information and Library Sciences (Graduate Student) | Information and its interaction with authority in North Africa |
| Isabella Archer | Romance Languages/Franco-Arab Studies (Graduate Student) | Franco-Arab studies, North Africa, Orientalism, art |
| Leila Armstrong | Art History (Graduate Student) | Medieval North African urbanism |
| Rose Aslan | Religious Studies (Graduate Student) | Islamic studies |
| Margo Balboni | Peace, War, and Defense (Undergraduate) | Arabic; French |
| Anna Bernard-Hoverstad | Department of Romance Language and Literatures(Graduate Student) | Francophone literature, Maghrebi authors, and films |
| Laurel Bradley | Anthropology (Graduate Student) | Israel |
| Ali Colleen Neff | Communication Studies (Graduate Student) |
Senegal |
| Amanda B. Click | School of Information and Library Science (ELIME-21 Fellow) | Information Literacy in the Middle East |
| Nadia Dawisha | Communication Studies (Graduate Student) | Transnational Middle Eastern feminist studies |
| Christina Daltoso | School of Information and Library Science (Graduate Student) | information literacy and standards of information literacy in the Middle East |
| Ali Reza Eshraghi | Communication Studies (Graduate Student) | Middle East and Iran |
| Amanda Eglen | Comparative Literature(Graduate Student) | Middle Eastern Literature |
| Murat Es | Geography (Graduate Student) | Middle East and Europe |
| Brandon Gorman | Sociology (Graduate Student) | Political sociology, democracy, and gender |
| Wilson Greene | Global Studies (Undergraduate) | Israeli-Palestinian conflict |
| Jacob Hill | School of Information and Library Sciences (Graduate Student) | Digital humanities, digital libraries, and Arabic language search technology |
| Matthew Hotham | Religious Studies (Graduate Student) | Islam |
| Rolien Hoyng | Communication (Graduate Student) | Information technologies in Turkey |
| Atiya Husain | Sociology (Graduate Student) | Social movements, culture, Islam and race |
| Mohammad Ali Kadivar | Sociology (Graduate Student) | Middle East, Iran, Islam and Islamic reformist movements |
| Marwa Yusuf Koheji | Folklore (Graduate Student) | Middle East Folklore |
| Anna Levett | Comparative Literature (Graduate Student) | 20th century Mediterranean literature, especially Turkish |
| Bryce Loidolt | Political Science (Graduate Student) | Political Islam |
| Matthew Lubin | History (Graduate Student) | Ottoman history |
| Matthew Lynch | Religious Studies (Graduate Student) | Islamic Studies |
| Sherine Mahfouz | Journalism and Mass Communications (Graduate Student) | Arab media |
| John D. Martin III | School of Information and Library Sciences (Graduate Student) | Digital Humanities in the Middle East /Islamicate World |
| Katie Merriman | Religious Studies (Graduate Student) | Islamic Studies, Islam in the US |
| Candace Mixon | Religious Studies (Graduate Student) | Islamic Reform and Sufism |
| Arta Osmanaj | City and Regional Planning (Graduate Student) | Economic & international development |
| Williams Rogers Perlmutter | Trans-Atlantic Masters program(Graduate Student) | Balkans and Turkey |
| Linda Quiquivix | Geography (Graduate Student) | Power, maps, Palestine |
| Rachana Rao | Anthropology (Graduate Student) | South Asian Islam |
| Safa Sajadi | School of Law (Graduate Student) | International Law, Middle East History and Poetry |
| Christopher Scanzoni | Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies (Undergraduate) | Islamic studies |
| Guy Shalev | Anthropology (Graduate Student) | Medical Anthropology: Palestinian Physicians in Israel |
| Natalia Suit | Anthropology (Graduate Student) | Qur’an as a physical object in Egypt |
| Nathan W. Swanson | Geography (Graduate Student) | Middle East, law, human rights |
| Tehseen Thaver | Religious Studies (Graduate Student) | Islamic studies |
| Didem Türkoğlu | Sociology (Graduate Student) | Culture and politics in Turkey |
| Haj Yazdiha | Sociology (Graduate Student) | Middle Eastern identity |
| Elena Yehia | Anthropology (Graduate Student) | Social movements in Lebanon and Mexico |
| Bahar Yolac | Art History (Graduate Student) | 18th century Ottoman female patronage in art |