Faculty and Staff

Core Faculty

Jesse Casana (Assistant Professor of Anthropology): Middle East Archaeology, Ancient and Classical Levantine History

JoAnn D'Alisera (Associate Professor of Anthropology): Religion, West Africa, Transnational Islam, Islam in America, Material Culture

Mounir Farah (Professor of Education): Curriculum Development, Arab World Education, World History, U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East

Najib Ghadbian (Associate Professor of Political Science): Middle East Politics, Islamic Movements, Arab/Muslim International Relations

Joel Gordon (Professor of History): Modern Egypt, Popular Culture, Cinema and Mass Media, Religion and Politics

Adnan Haydar (Professor of Foreign Languages): Arabic and Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Oral Poetics

Paula Haydar (Instructor of Foreign Languages): Arabic Language, Modern Arabic Literature

Mohja Kahf (Associate Professor of English): Comparative Literature, Orientalism, Modern Arabic/Arab Diaspora Literature

Thomas Paradise (Interim Director of Middle East Studies, Professor of Geosciences): Cultural and Physical Geography of North Africa and the Middle East, Historic and Archaeological Preservation, Cartography

Jerome Rose (Professor of Anthropology): Ancient Near East, Bioarchaeology, Archaeology, Egyptology

Ted Swedenburg (Professor of Anthropology): Modern Middle East, Popular Culture and Music, Gender and Sexuality, Transnationalism, Race and Ethnicity

William Tucker (Associate Professor of History): Medieval Islam, Shi`ism, Islamic History, Environmental History, Pre-Modern Mediterranean History

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Affiliated Faculty

Charles H. Adams (Professor of English, Associate Dean of the Fulbright College): North Africa in the Western Imagination

Jacob Adler (Associate Professor of Philosophy): Biblical Hebrew, early Modern Philosophy, Judaic Studies, Aramaic

Geoff Brock (Assistant Professor of English): Poetry, and Literary Translation

Lynda Coon (Associate Professor of History): Late Roman Empire, Saints and Martyrs, Gender and Sexuality

Luis Fernando-Restrepo (Professor of Spanish): Literature and Translation, and Literary Theory

Davis Maccombs (Assistant Professor of English): Poetry, Prosody, Romantic Literature and Theory

Margaret Reid (Professor of Political Science): Public Policy/Administration, Nonprofit Management, Community Development

Stephen Sheppard (Associate Professor of Law):International Law, Laws of War and Conflict, Associate Editor-Law Advisor Journal of Islamic Law and Culture

Rembrandt Wolpert (Professor of Music, Director, Ethnomusicology Center): Ethnomusicology, Chinese-East Asian/Silk Road Musical Traditions

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Staff

Suzanne E. Wall, Administrative Assistant
202 Old Main
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
(479) 575-4157

Mafuza Akhtar
105 Old Main
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
(479) 575-4373