Faculty & Scholars

Faculty, Lecturers, & Scholars

Ayca Alemdaroglu headshot

Freeman Spogli Institute, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
  • Democracy
  • Authoritarianism
  • Inequality
  • Youth
  • Cold War
morehshin allahyari headshot

Art & Art History
  • Digital Media Art
  • Digital Colonialism
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Feminist studies
  • Queer studies
  • Islamic studies
Rania Awaad headshot

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine
  • Muslim Mental Health
  • Islamic Psychology
  • Islamic Law and Theology
Nora Barakat Headshot

History
  • Late Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East
  • Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
  • 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Capital and Crisis
  • Islamic Law
  • Development and Dispossession
Vincent Barletta headshot

Comparative Literature
  • Medieval Iberia
  • Al-Andalus
  • Philosophy
Joel Beinin headshot

History
  • Modern Middle East
  • Modern Egypt
  • Arab-Israeli conflict
Russell A. Berman headshot

Comparative Literature, German Studies, Hoover Institution
  • U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
  • Literature
  • Politics
Anna Bigelow

Religious Studies
  • Islam
  • Sufism
  • Material religion
  • Minority religions
Lisa Blaydes headshot

Political Science
  • Comparative politics
  • Authoritarian politics
Patricia Blessing headshot

Art & Art History
  • Islamic art and architecture
  • medieval art history and archaeology
  • Turkey
  • Anatolia
  • cross-cultural exchange
Boumehdi Headshot

DLCL Language Center
  • Islamic presence in the Iberian Peninsula (711-1492)
  • The Moriscos (1500-1609), and Aljamía Language and literature through its manuscripts
Elisabeth Boyi headshot

Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
  • Northern Africa
  • Maghrebian literature in French
Link, Cole Bunzel headshot

Hoover Institution
  • SAUDI ARABIA
  • POLITICAL ISLAM
  • SALAFISM & WAHHABISM
Ebru Cetin Milci headshot

Stanford University Libraries
  • Turkish Language
  • Turkic Languages
  • Armeno-Turkish
  • Gregorian Zone Kipchak Studies
Ala Ebtekar headshot

Department of Art & Art History / Art, Social Space and Public Discourse
  • Public Space + Art
  • Contemporary Art
  • Iranian Coffeehouse Painting, Graffiti
Saadet Ebru Ergul bio photo

Stanford Language Center, African Middle Eastern Languages Program
  • Turkish oral and writing proficiency assessment
  • Curriculum development
  • National language standards for Turkish
Kioumars Ghereghlou

Stanford University Libraries
  • History
  • Early Modern Empires
  • Iran
  • The Ottoman world
Denise Gill bio photo

Music
  • Contemporary Turkey
  • Ethnomusicology and Music Anthropology
  • Sufism/Tasawwuf
  • Islamic and Secular Acoustemologies in the Formation of Publics
Rebecca Glasbery headshot

Taube Center for Jewish Studies
  • North African literature
  • Jewish Studies
  • French literature,
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Holocaust Studies
  • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Marie Huber headshot

Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
  • COMPARATIVE STUDIES
  • MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES
  • PERSIAN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES
  • PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
  • POETRY AND POETICS
Jesse Izzo headshot

Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
  • The Medieval Middle East
  • The Crusades
  • Mamluk Egypt
  • The Mediterranean
  • The Mongols
  • Christian-Muslim relations
Omer Karaduman headshot

Graduate School of Business
  • Energy, Electricity, Technology
Burcu Karahan headshot

Comparative Literature
  • Turkish and Ottoman Literatures
  • Ottoman Modernization
  • Literary Translation and Translation Studies
Link, Abdulbasit Kassim headshot

Department of African and African American Studies
  • HISTORIES AND CULTURES OF MUSLIM SOCIETIES IN WEST AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL BLACK DIASPORA IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
  • OTTOMAN EMPIRE
  • THE MEDITERRANEAN ARAB WORLD
  • LANDS OF ISLAM
Alexander Key headshot

Comparative Literature
  • Arabic
  • Poetry
  • Islamic Studies
  • Literature
  • Criticism and Theory
  • Intellectual History
Justin Leidwanger Headshot

Classics / Archaeology / Oceans
  • Mediterranean interaction, migration, ancient and Medieval Sicily and Turkey
  • Eastern Mediterranean
  • Maritime archaeology
Pauline Lewis

Stanford University Libraries
  • Middle East History
Amichai Magen headshot

Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
  • Democracy
  • Rule of Law
  • Liberal Orders
  • Risk and political violence
  • Israeli politics and policy
Link, Helen Malko headshot

Stanford Humanities Center
  • MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL HERITAGE
  • ANCIENT HISTORY
  • ARCHAEOLOGY
  • IRAQ
  • MESOPOTAMIA
  • ANCIENT NEAR EAST
  • MUSEUMS
  • CULTURAL & COLLECTIVE MEMORY
scotty mclennan headshot

Graduate School of Business
  • Relationship of business, ethics, and religion
reviel netz headshot

Classics
  • The history of pre-modern mathematics (including Islamic science)
Michael Penn headshot

Religious Studies
  • Early Christianity in the Middle East
  • Early Christian-Muslim relations
Bissera V. Pentcheva headshot

Art & Art History
  • BYZANTINE AND MEDIEVAL ART
  • AESTHETICS
  • PHENOMENOLOGY
  • IMAGE THEORY
  • AUDIOVISION
ryan perkins headshot

Stanford University Libraries
  • Islam in South Asia
  • Urdu and Pashto literature
Aron Rodrigue headshot

History
  • The history and culture of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East
  • History of the Ottoman Empire
  • Modern Turkey
hesham sallam headshot

Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
  • Political and social development in the Arab World
Ramzi Salti headshot

Stanford Language Center
  • Arabic Language, Literature and Music.
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Radio Broadcasting + Podcasting
Priya Satia headshot

History
  • British empire
  • anti colonialism
  • philosophy of history
  • history of education
  • partition and decolonization
  • military history
  • intelligence history
  • history of technology
  • colonial governance
  • political economy of empire
  • environmental history
Vered Shemtov headshot

Comparative Literature
  • Hebrew Literature
  • Israeli Literature
Gizem Sivri headshot

Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
  • History
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Middle East
  • Women
  • Gender
  • Law
Kabir Tambar

Anthropology
  • Turkey
  • Late Ottoman Empire
  • Political Anthropology
  • Linguistic anthropology
  • Religious Studies
Marie-Pierre Ulloa headshot

Taube Center for Jewish Studies
  • Mediterranean
  • MIGRATION
  • EXILE
  • DIASPORA
  • FRANCE
  • NORTH AFRICA
  • JEWS & MUSLIMS
  • FRANCOPHONE WORLD
  • DECOLONIZATION
  • VICHY
  • POLITICS OF MEMORY
  • ARCHIVES
  • ORAL HISTORY
  • CINEMA
Ali Yaycioglu Headshot

History
  • Ottoman Empire
  • history of economic and political Institutions
  • empires and global history
  • Modern Turkey
Irmak Yazici headshot

Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
  • Comparative Politics, Law, Religion
Serkan Yolacan bio photo

Anthropology
  • Time and temporality
  • Human mobility
  • Texts and genres
  • Transregionalism
  • Middle East and the Caucasus

Visiting Scholars

Past Scholars

Olga Borovaya
  • Sephardi Studies
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Language and Literature
  • Ladino Language
  • Modern Sephardi history
Ryan Gingeras
  • TURKEY AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
  • SOUTH BALKANS
  • MIDDLE EAST
  • NORTH CAUCASUS
  • COMPARATIVE WORLD HISTORY
  • ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE DRUG TRADE
Camilla Mazzucato Headshot
  • Urban development and spatial arrangement of Neolithic megasites
  • The Neolithic in the Levant and Turkey
  • Network analysis and digital mapping (GIS)
  • Spatial analysis
  • Religion/ritual/cults
Adrien Zakar headshot
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