Duke University Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Affiliated Faculty

Our interdisciplinary Middle East Studies affiliated faculty hold appointments in departments and schools across the Duke campus.

We welcome affiliations from faculty in any department or school at Duke who focus on the Middle East in their research or teaching.

• Abdullah Antepli Adjunct Faculty of Islamic Studies, Duke Divinity School; Muslim Chaplin; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Alison Ashton Associate Professor of Accounting, Fuqua School of Business; Affiliated faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I CV
• Robert Ashton  L. Palmer Fox Professor of Accounting, Fuqua School of Business; Affiliated faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center; Director of Middle East GATE courses I biography I CV
• Kalman Bland Professor, Department of Religion; Director, Judaic Studies Program
• Azeddine Chergui Arabic Instructor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Affiliated faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Janet Ewald Associate Professor, Department of History; Affiliated faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I CV
• Christof Galli Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian, International Documents Librarian I CV
• Jehanne Gheith Associate Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies I biography I CV
• Shai Ginsburg Assistant Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Erdag Goknar Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies; 
• Martin Golding Professor of Philosophy and Law
• Shalom Goldman  Research Professor, Department of Religion | biography | CV 
• Muhammad Habib University Faculty, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
• Bruce Hall Assistant Professor, Department of History; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Mona Hassan Assistant Professor, Departments of Religion and History; Core faculty of Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography
• Frances Hasso Associate Professor, Women's Studies and International Comparative Studies; Affiliated core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center
• Enseng Ho Professor, Departments of History and Cultural Anthropology; Carnegie Scholar I biography I
• Mary Hovsepian Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center
• Abdul Sattar Jawad Al-Mamouri' is a Professor of Comparative Literature & Middle Eastern Studies; Affiliated faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I CV
• Bruce Jentleson Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy; Department of Political Science; Affiliated faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Mohsen Kadivar, Visiting Research Professor, Department of Religion I biography
• Claudia Koonz Professor, Department of History; Peabody Family Chair; Affiliated faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Bruce Kuniholm Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy; Director of Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy; Chair Public Policy Institute; Affiliated faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Timur Kuran Gorter Family Professor, Departments of Economics and Political Science; Core faculty of Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Bruce Lawrence Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, Department of Religion; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Mbaye Lo Assistant Professor of the Practicer, Arabic, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Abdeslam Maghraoui Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Ellen McLarney Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies I biography I CV
• Carol Meyers Professor, Department of Religion; Director of Undergraduate Studies in Religion I biography I CV
• Eric Meyers Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Judaic Studies; Director of the Center for Jewish Studies I biography I CV Eric Meyers receives Lifetime Achievement Award for archeological research in Galilee.
• Ylana Miller Associate Professor, Department of History, Women Studies I biography I CV
• Ebrahim Moosa Associate Professor, Department of Religion; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies I biography I CV
• Jane Moss Visiting Professor; Director of Canadian Studies | CV
• Negar Mottahedeh Associate Professor, Department of Literature; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies I biography I CV
• David Need Visiting Professor, Departments of Religion and Comparative Studies I biography I CV
• Melvin Peters Professor, Department of Religion
• Shelli Plesser Lecturer, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Instructor, Center for Jewish Studies
• Lincoln Pratson Professor of Sedimentary Geology, Nicholas School I CV
• Jen'nan Read Associate Professor, Departments of Global Health and Sociology, Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Rebecca Stein Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center
• Mustafa Tuna Assistant Professor of Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture; Core faculty, Duke Islamic Studies Center I biography I CV
• Avner Vengosh Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences I CV
• Erika Weinthal Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Nicholas Schoo; Political Sciencel I Biography
• Annabel Wharton William B. Hamilton Professor, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Arts; Professor of Literature I biography