Faculty :: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Core Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Salman H. Al-Ani Professor, NELC	alani@indiana.edu Goodbody 204 (812) 855-8555	Arabic linguistics with a special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax
Çiğdem Balım Harding Senior Lecturer, NELC	cbalim@indiana.edu Weatherly Hall, 106 (812) 855-9483	Linguistics, Languages and cultures in contact, Migration and transnational communities, Contemporary Turkic languages, peoples, and communities
Hasan El-Shamy Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology	elshamy@indiana.edu 506 N. Fess 101 (812) 855-4124	Folklore, folktale, ballad; Psychological approaches; Africa, the Middle East
Zaineb Istrabadi Lecturer, NELC	zistraba@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall, 302 (812) 856-0372	Teaching Arabic as a Second Language, Interfaith dialogues, Community Outreach, Sufism
Stephen Katz Associate Professor, NELC	katzs@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 206 (812) 855-4744	Modern Hebrew Language and Literature, Fiction of S. Y. Agnon, American experience of Jews and Hebrew writers, Hebrew poetry
Kevin W.Martin Assistant Professor, NELC	km66@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 240 (812) 856-6861	Modern Middle East, the Modern Islamic World, the Modern Levant (Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq), Cultural history of the Modern Arab world
Sara Scalenghe Assistant Professor, NELC	scalengs@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 628 (812) 855-7438	Early Modern and Modern Middle Eastern and North African history, Ottoman Empire, Social and cultural, gender, disability issues
M. Nazif Shahrani Chair, NELC	shahrani@indiana.edu Goodbody 236 (812) 855-4858	Cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism, State and society, Islamic movements, Identity politics, Social change and modernization, Muslim family and gender dynamics in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia
Abdulkader Sinno Assistant Professor, NELC	asinno@indiana.edu http://www.sinno.com Woodburn Hall 323 (812) 855-5885	Civil wars, Ethnic strife and other Territorial conflicts, Muslims in Western Politics, Political Islam
Suzanne Stetkevych Professor, NELC	stetkevy@indiana.edu Goodbody 319 (812) 335-4323	Classical Arabic Poetry, Ritual, performance, and Historicist approaches to the qasidah, Praise Poetry to the Prophet
Martha Vinson Associate Professor, NELC	vinsonm@indiana.edu Goodbody 102 (812) 855-5993	Classical and Byzantine studies, Byzantine literature
John Walbridge Professor, NELC	jwalbrid@indiana.edu Goodbody 222 (812) 855-5993	Islamic philosophy and Islamic intellectual history, emphasis on the cultural role of philosophy and science, Baha'i studies, Islamic Studies, Islamic History