Faculty

Lily Alavi

Associate Instructor, Persian - World Languages and Cultures

• Persian language

lily.alavi@utah.edu

 Ana Antunes

Assistant Professor, Gender Studies

• Muslim-American youth
• Islamophobia
• Refugee and Immigrant youth

ana.antunes@utah.edu

Soheila Amirsoleimani

Associate Professor -  Persian - World Languages and Cultures

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

soheila1@gmail.com

Benjamin B. Cohen

Professor - History

• South Asia

benjamin.cohen@utah.edu

Korkut Erturk

Professor - Economics

• Macroeconomics
• Political Economy

korkut@economics.utah.edu

Christine Everaert

Associate Professor - World Languages and Cultures

• Hindi-Urdu language, literature, and (socio-)linguistics
• South Asian language, literature and culture
• Religion and society in South Asia (India focus)
• Islam/Sufism and Hinduism in popular and literary culture
• Identity, nationalism, and patriotism in Indian popular culture
• Religion and national identity in modern India
• Hinduism and Islam’s changing dynamics in India

Christine.Everaert@utah.edu

Caren Frost

Research Professor - College of Social Work

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

caren.frost@socwk.utah.edu

Alborz Ghandehari

Assistant Professor - Ethnic Studies

• Protest movements in Iran
• Migrant and refugee movements
• Capitalism and SWANA (Southwest Asia/North Africa)
• Queer and feminist thought

A.Ghandehari@utah.edu

Annie Greene

Postdoctoral Fellow - Middle East History

• Arab-Islamic World
• Ottoman Empire
• Cultural and Intellectual History
• Gender
• Religious Minorities

annie.greene@utah.edu

Amos Guiora

Professor - Law

• Counterterrorism
• Criminal Law
• International Law

amos.guiora@law.utah.edu

Ammar S. Hussein

Associate Instructor- Communication

• International Communication
• Psychological Warfare
• Rhetoric of Terrorist Organizations
• Shia Studies

a.hussein@utah.edu

Robert Kagabo

Adjunct Assistant Professor - Family and Preventive Medicine

• Public Helath
• Family Medicine

M.A. Mujeeb Khan

Assistant Professor - World Languages and Cultures

• 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

Distinguished Professor - Physics

• High Energy Astrophysics
• Particle Astrophysics
• Astronomy Astrophysics

dave.kieda@utah.edu

Sean Lawson

Professor - Communication

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

sean.lawson@utah.edu

Chris Lippard

Professor - Film & Media Arts

• Transnational cinematic identities
• Middle Eastern cinema

c.lippard@utah.edu

Steven Lobell

Professor - Political Science

• International security
• Foreign policy
• Political economy

steven.lobell@poli-sci.utah.edu

Assistant Professor - 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

Meekyung MacMurdie

Art and Art History

• Islamic and architecture
• Medieval art and architecture
• Book history
• History of science and medicine
• Visual information technologies.

meekyung.macmurdie@utah.edu

Chibli Mallat

Professor Emeritus - Law

• Middle East Law
• Human Rights

chibli.mallat@law.utah.edu

Kathleen Nicoll

Professor - Geography

• Lands geomorphology
• Archaeology

kathleen.nicoll@gmail.com

Debra Penney

Associate Professor (Clinical) - Nursing

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

debra.penney@nurs.utah.edu

Sheikh Safiullah

Associate Instructor - Middle East Studies

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

s.safiullah@utah.edu

Shereen Salah

Instructor (Lecturer) of Arabic, World Languages and Cultures

• Arabic language

shereen.salah@utah.edu

Sonia Salari

Professor - Family & Consumer Studies

• Aging services
• Family violence
• Gerontology

sonia.salari@fcs.utah.edu

Maeera Shreiber

Professor - English

• Poetics
• Religious Studies
• Jewish Studies

m.shrelber@utah.edu

Rasoul Sorkhabi

Research Professor - Energy & Geoscience Institute

• Oil in the Mid E & Central Asia
• Petrophysics

rsorkhabi@egi.utah.edu

Elizabeth Tashjian

Professor - Finance

• Financial Distress
• Security Contract Design

elizabeth.tashjian@business.utah.edu

Margaret Toscano

Associate Professor - World Languages and Cultures

• Gender & Sexuality
• Myth & Religion
• Mormon Feminism

margaret.toscano@utah.edu

Ewa Wasilewska

Associate Professor (Lecturer) - Middle East Studies

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

mruczek@aol.com

M. Hakan Yavuz

Professor - Political Science

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

hakan.yavuz@utah.edu

Shundana Yusaf

Associate Professor - Architectural History

• South Asian Islam

shundana@arch.utah.edu