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Faculty

Current Faculty

Faculty Member Department Fields Contact Spring 2012 Office Hours
Atwood, Chris
Associate Professor
Chair
Mongolian studies catwood@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 157
(812) 855-2233

M 10:00-11:00
T 1:00- 2:00

Beckwith, Christopher
Professor
Central Eurasian studies beckwith@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 346
(812) 855-2428
On leave
Borhi, László
Visiting Professor,
Hungarian Chair
Hungarian Studies lborhi@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 238
(812) 855-1102

T 2:00-4:00

Bovingdon, Gardner
Associate Professor
Central Asian studies – Xinjiang gbovingd@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 344
(812) 856-0230

T 10:00-11:00
R 3:00-4:00

Choksy, Jamsheed
Professor
Iranian studies jchoksy@indiana.edu
Eigenmann Hall 703
(812) 855-8643

M 11:00-12:00 or by appointment

DeWeese, Devin
Professor
Central Asian studies deweese@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 343
(812) 855-2298

W 10:30- 11:45 or by appointment

Fierman, William
Professor
Central Asian studies wfierman@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 323
(812) 855-3759

T 2:40- 3:40 W 3:30- 4:30 or by appointment

Hooker, Lynn
Associate Professor
Hungarian studies lhooker@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 235
(812) 856-0167

On leave

Kara, György
Professor
Mongolian studies gkara@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 142
(812) 855-0460

R 11:00- 12:00


Lazzerini, Edward
Academic Specialist
Central Asian studies elazzeri@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 348
(812) 856-0671

D 11:00-12:00,
and by appointment

Losensky, Paul
Associate Professor
Iranian studies plosensk@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 207
(812) 855-9665

On leave

Özçelik, Öner
Assistant Professor
Turkish studies oozcelik@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall W001A
812-855-4867
R 11:00- 12:00 or by appointment
Raun, Toivo
Professor
Baltic-Finnish studies raunt@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 234
(812) 855-4907

T 3:00-4:00
R 1:00-2:00

Sela, Ron
Associate Professor
Central Asian studies rsela@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 141
(812) 856-7017

R 10:00- 12:00,
or by appointment

Shahrani, Nazif
Professor
Central Asian studies, Iranian studies shahrani@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 236
(812) 855-4858

On leave

Silay, Kemal
Professor
Turkish studies ksilay@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 220
(812) 855-5227

On leave

Sperling, Elliot
Associate Professor
Tibetan studies sperlin@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 143
(812) 855-7344

W 12:00-1:30

Adjunct Faculty

Faculty Member Department Fields Contact
Atalay, Sonya
Adjunct Professor
Assistant Professor in Anthropology satalay@indiana.edu
Student Building 052
(812) 856-2638
Pyburn, Anne
Adjunct Professor
Professor of Anthropology apyburn@indiana.edu
Ibold, Hans
Adjunct Professor
Assistant Professor in Journalism hibold@indiana.edu
Jatso, Arja 
Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Arjia Rinpoche, Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center tmbculturalcenter@gmail.com
3655 Snoddy Road
(812) 336-6807
Lehmann, Matthias
Adjunct Professor
Associate Professor in History mlehmann@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 836
(812) 855-4250
Nance, Richard
Adjunct Professor
Assistant Professor in Religious Studies rfnance@indiana.edu
Sycamore 230
(812) 855-6159

Trix, Francis
Adjunct Professor

Professor of Anthropology

ftrix@indiana.edu

Emeriti Faculty

To contact any of the emeriti faculty by phone, please call (812) 855-2233.

Faculty Member Research Interests
Basgoz, Ilhan
Professor Emeritus
Bayerle, Gustav
Professor Emeritus
bayerle@indiana.edu
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Ottoman history; Hungarian history; and Ottoman philology
Bregel, Yuri
Professor Emeritus
bregel@indiana.edu
History of Islamic Central Asia

Glassie, Henry
Adjunct Professor Emeritus
glassieh@indiana.edu

Folktales, songs, and material culture -- ceramics, textiles, and architecture -- of the United States, Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, and Japan

Szegedy-Maszák, Mihály
Professor Emeritus
szegedym@indiana.edu

 

Cultural studies, comparative literature, Interacts studies, narratology, structuralism and translation, romanticism, nationalism, modernism and postmodernism

Lecturers

Faculty Member Department Fields Contact Spring '09 Office Hour
Daneshgar, Shahyar
Senior Lecturer
Persian, Azerbaijani Languages sdaneshg@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 301
(812) 856-0025

W 1:00-3:00

Hodjaev, Malik
John D. Soper Lecturer
Uzbek Language mhodjaev@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 301
(812) 856-0025

M 1:00- 2:00 W1:00- 2:00

Inomkhojayev, Rakhmonkhoja
Lecturer
Pashto Language rinomkho@indiana.edu
Eigenmann Hall 720
(812) 856-0854
T 4:00-5:00 W 4:00-5:00 and by appointment
Kivik, Piibi-Kai
Visiting Lecturer
Estonian Language pkivik@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall MM04
(812) 856-5064

M 1:00-2:00 R 1:00-2:00,
and by appointment

Legden, Tserenchunt
Lecturer
Mongolian Language tlegden@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall W006
(812) 855-2099

W 12:30-1:30,
and by appointment

Nazarova, Gulnisa
Lecturer
Uyghur Language gnazarov@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 304
(812) 856-2814

T 2:00-3:00 or by appointment

Rabsal, Gedun
Lecturer
Tibetan Language grabsal@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall W006
(812) 855-2099

F 11:00-12:00

Taurama, Mikko
Lecturer
Finnish Language mtaurama@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 233
(812) 855-4862

W 12:15-1:00

R 11:15-12:15 or by appointment

Varga, Valeria
Lecturer
Hungarian Language vvarga@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall MM04
(812) 856-5064

R 11:00-12:00

Zlotin, Roman
Senior Lecturer
Geography rzlotin@indiana.edu
Weatherly Hall 110
By appointment

Librarian

Faculty Member Contact
Khabibullaev, Akram
Librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Central Eurasian Studies
akkhabib@indiana.edu
Wells Library E960
(812) 855-9885

Singer, Andrea
Librarian for Foreign Government Information and India and Tibetan Studies

singer@indiana.edu
Wells Library
East Tower 2
(812)855-3726

Staff

Staff Member Contact
Niggle, Karen
Assistant to the Chair, Scheduling Officer, Fiscal Officer and Building Manager

kniggle@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 153
(812) 855-2398

Younger, April
Administrative Secretary and Admissions Secretary

ayounger@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 157
(812) 855-2233

Breeding, Jackie
Administrative Assistant

jmbreedi@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 157
(812) 855-2233

Özçelik, Öner
Language Coordinator

ceuslc@indiana.edu
Memorial Hall W001A
(812) 855-4867

Seitz, Jack
Graduate Assistant

johnb@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 147