Faculty

Lily Alavi

Affiliated Instructor of Perisan

lily.alavi@utah.edu

Soheila Amirsoleimani

Affiliated Associate Professor - L&L, Persian

• Literature of early Perso-Islamic world
• Persian language
• Historiography

soheila1@gmail.com

Gunseli Berik

Affiliated Professor - Economics

• Development Economics
• Labor Economics
• Feminist Economics

berik@economics.utah.edu

Nilufer Cagatay

Affiliated Professor - Economics

• Development Economics
• International Economics
• Gender Economics

cagatay@economics.utah.edu

Korkut Erturk

Affiliated Professor - Economics

• Macroeconomics
• Political Economy

korkut@economics.utah.edu

Caren Frost

Adjunct Associate Professor - Family And Preventive Medicine

• Refugee Women’s Health
• Physical & Nutritional Fitness in Youth
• Behavioral Aspects of Breast Cancer

caren.frost@socwk.utah.edu

Amos Guiora

Affiliated Professor (Lecturer) - Law

• Counterterrorism
• Criminal Law
• International Law

amos.guiora@law.utah.edu

Robert Kagabo

Affiliated Adjunct Assistant Professor, Family And Preventive Medicine

• Public Helath
• Family Medicine

M.A. Mujeeb Khan

Affiliated Assistant Professor WLC

• Japan; Arab-Islamic World
• East Asian (Sinitic) Cultural Sphere
• Islamicate Cultural Sphere
• Comparative Intellectual History
• History of Science and Medicine (Chinese and Sino-Japanese medicine; Greco-Roman and Islamicate/Arabic medicine)
• Religion, Science, and Law
• Law and Society
• Cross-cultural Representation
• East-West Communication

mujeeb.khan@utah.edu

David Kieda

Affiliated Professor - Physics

• High Energy Astrophysics
• Particle Astrophysics
• Astronomy Astrophysics

dave.kieda@utah.edu

Sean Lawson

Affiliated Professor (Lecturer) - Law

• Science and technology studies
• Critical military, war, and security studies
• Cybersecurity

sean.lawson@utah.edu

Chris Lippard

Affiliated Assistant Professor - Film & Media Arts

• Transnational cinematic identities
• Middle Eastern cinema

c.lippard@utah.edu

Steven Lobell

Affiliated Associate Professor - Political Science

• International security
• Foreign policy
• Political economy

steven.lobell@poli-sci.utah.edu

History

• Modern Middle East
• Ottoman Empire
• Arabian Peninsula
•  Indian Ocean
• Islamic World
• Environmental History
• Comparative Empire
• Disease and Pandemics
•  Infrastructure
• Water
• Energy
• Climate Change
• Mobility (Pilgrimage, Travel, Tourism, Migration)

m.chris.low@utah.edu

Chibli Mallat

Affiliated Professor - Law

• Middle East Law
• Human Rights

chibli.mallat@law.utah.edu

Kathleen Nicoll

Affiliated Assistant Professor - Geography

• Lands geomorphology
• Archaeology

kathleen.nicoll@gmail.com

Debra Penney

Affiliated Associate Professor - Nursing

• Public Health
• International Health
• Women, refugees, health

debra.penney@nurs.utah.edu

Shereen Prewett

Affiliated Associate Instructor of Arabic

shereen.prewett@utah.edu

Sheikh Safiullah

Affiliated Faculty

• History of Middle East 1798-1914
• Middle East since 1914

s.safiullah@utah.edu

Shereen Salah

Affiliated Instructor (Lecturer) of Arabic

shereen.salah@utah.edu

Sonia Salari

Affiliated Associate Professor - Family & Consumer Studies

• Aging services
• Family violence
• Gerontology

sonia.salari@fcs.utah.edu

Maeera Shreiber

Affiliated Associate Professor - English

• Poetics
• Religious Studies
• Jewish Studies

m.shrelber@utah.edu

Rasoul Sorkhabi

Affiliated Research Professor - Energy & Geoscience Institute

• Oil in the Mid E & Central Asia
• Petrophysics

rsorkhabi@egi.utah.edu

Elizabeth Tashjian

Affiliated Associate Professor - Finance

• Financial Distress
• Security Contract Design

elizabeth.tashjian@business.utah.edu

Margaret Toscano

Affiliated Associate Professor - World Languages and Culture

• Gender & Sexuality
• Myth & Religion
• Mormon Feminism

margaret.toscano@utah.edu

Ewa Wasilewska

Affiliated Associate Professor (Lecturer) - Anthropology

• Intro to Middle East
• Silk Road
• Religion and Fashion in the Middle East

mruczek@aol.com

M. Hakan Yavuz

Affiliated Professor - Political Science

• Transnational Islamic networks
• Ethnic/religious conflict
• Turkey & the Middle East

hakan.yavuz@utah.edu