People
Core Faculty
| FACULTY MEMBER | CONTACT | RESEARCH AREAS | Office Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asma Afsaruddin Chair, Professor, NELC |
aafsarud@indiana.edu Memorial Hall M17 (812) 855-5993 |
Pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; Qur’anic hermeneutics; Hadith criticism; Exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Gender roles | By appointment |
|
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 | Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30–3:45 |
| Çiğdem Balım Harding Senior Lecturer, NELC |
cbalim@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 208 (812) 855-9483 |
Linguistics; Languages and cultures in contact; Migration and transnational communities; Contemporary Turkic languages, peoples, and communities | Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00–4:00 |
| 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 Senior Lecturer, NELC |
zistraba@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 302 (812) 856-0372 |
Teaching Arabic as a Second Language; Interfaith dialogues; Community Outreach; Sufism | Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 1:30–2:15 |
| Stephen Katz Professor, NELC Director of Undergraduate Studies |
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 | Monday and Wednesday, 11:30–12:30 |
| Aziza Khazzoom Associate Professor, NELC |
khazzoom@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 348 (812) 856-2279 |
Israeli identity and multiculturalism; Stratification; Gender; Race/ethnicity/nation; Immigration | Thursday, 11:00–1:00 |
| Kevin W. Martin Assistant Professor, NELC |
km66@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 241 (812) 856-6861 |
Modern Middle East; the Modern Islamic World; the Modern Levant (Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq); Cultural history of the Modern Arab world | Wednesday, 10:00–12:00 |
| Nader Morkus Assistant Professor, NELC Director of Language Instruction |
nmorkus@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 305 (812) 856-2400 |
Second Language Acquisition; Discourse Level Analysis of the Speech Act of Refusal in Egyptian Arabic; Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication | Monday and Wednesday, 1:00–2:15 |
| M. Nazif Shahrani Professor, NELC |
shahrani@indiana.edu Goodbody 157 (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 | Wednesday, 1:30–3:30 |
| Abdulkader Sinno Associate 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 | Wednesday, 1:30–3:30 |
| Suzanne Stetkevych Professor, NELC |
stetkevy@indiana.edu Goodbody 319 (812) 855-8722 |
Classical Arabic Poetry; Ritual, performance, and Historicist approaches to the qasidah; Praise Poetry to the Prophet | |
| Steve Vinson Associate Professor, NELC Director of Graduate Studies |
vinsons@indiana.edu Memorial 019 (812) 856-6736 |
Ancient Egyptian language and literature; History of Graeco-Roman Egypt Ancient Egyptian transportation and trade, especially boats and ships | Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2:00–3:00 |
| John Walbridge Professor, NELC |
jwalbrid@indiana.edu Goodbody 222 (812) 855-8689 |
Islamic philosophy and Islamic intellectual history, emphasis on the cultural role of philosophy and science; Baha'i studies, Islamic Studies, Islamic History | Monday, 1:00–2:15, and Wednesday, 12:00–2:15 |
Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty
| FACULTY MEMBER | CONTACT | RESEARCH AREAS |
|---|---|---|
| Jane Goodman Adjunct Associate Professor |
janegood@indiana.edu 800 E. Third Street (812) 855-3232 |
Berber studies; Language, performance and identity; Textuality and discourse |
| John Hanson Adjunct Associate Professor |
jhhanson@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 731 (812) 855-5212 |
West African history; Muslim communities; Social/cultural history |
| Feisal A. R. Istrabadi University Scholar in International Law and Diplomacy |
fistraba@indiana.edu Law School 243 (812) 856-2987 |
Constitutional Democracy; Iraqi politics; Processes of building legal and political institutions in countries in transition from dictatorship to democracy |
| R. Kevin Jaques Adjunct Associate Professor |
rjaques@indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 223 (812) 855-6907 |
Islamic legal history; Islam in Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean communities; Islam in the United States; Religious authority in times of social and cultural upheaval; Methods and methodologies in the academic study of religion; Ethnography |
| Paul Losensky Adjunct Associate Professor |
plosensk@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 207 (812) 855-9665 |
Iranian Studies; Persian literature and literary history (in particular the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries in Iran); India; Central Asia; Literature, architecture, and topography; Sufism and literature; Comparative studies in the Baroque; Translation and translation studies |
| David McDonald Adjunct Assistant Professor |
davmcdon@indiana.edu 506 N. Fess, Room 105 (812) 855-4124 |
Israel/Palestine; Performance ethnography; Social theory; Ethnomusicological study of voilence and socio-cultural trauma. |
| Karen Rasler Adjunct Professor |
krasler@indiana.edu Woodburn Hall 210 (812) 855-2027 |
International conflict and cooperation; Relative decline of world powers |
| Kaya Sahin Adjunct Assistant Professor |
iksahin@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 814 (812) 856-0309 |
The institutional and ideological foundations of the Ottoman imperial praxis; Comparative studies of early modern Eurasian empires; Ottoman and modern Turkish historiography; Ottoman-Safavid rivalry; Inter-cultural and inter-religious exchanges in early modern Eurasia |
| Ruth M. Stone Adjunct Professor |
stone@indiana.edu 510 N. Fess, Room 100A (812) 855-0398 |
Music as culture and performance; Theory of ethnomusicology |
Emeriti Faculty
| FACULTY MEMBER | CONTACT | RESEARCH AREAS |
|---|---|---|
| Salih Altoma Professor Emeritus, NELC |
salih@indiana.edu Goodbody 102 (812) 855-5993 |
Arabic Linguistics; Teaching Arabic as a second language |
| Gustav Bayerle Professor Emeritus, NELC |
bayerle@indiana.edu Goodbody 102 (812) 855-5993 |
Sixteenth and seventeenth century Ottoman history; Hungarian history; Ottoman philology | Mark Day Librarian Emeritus for Near Eastern, Islamic, and Central Eurasian Studies |
marktday@gmail.com Wells Library E960 (812) 855-9885 |
Ancient Near East; Islamic Civilization |
| Henry Glassie Adjunct Professor Emeritus, NELC |
504 N. Fess Bloomington, IN 47408 |
Folk art and material culture; Historical approaches; the United States, Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh |
| Eugene Kleinbauer Professor Emeritus, NELC |
kleinbau@indiana.edu Fine Arts 413 (812) 855-9556 |
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Carolingian art and architecture |
| Consuelo López-Morillas Adjunct Professor Emerita, NELC |
lopez@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 871 (812) 855-1157 |
Hispano-Arabic language and literature; Aljamiado language and literature; History of the Spanish language; Peninsular dialectology; Romance linguistics |
| Christine Ogan Affiliated Professor Emerita, NELC |
ogan@indiana.edu Ernie Pyle Hall 206a (812) 855-1699 |
International communications; Information and communication technology; Social informatics; Middle East and Western Europe |
NELC Librarian
| FACULTY MEMBER | CONTACT | RESEARCH AREAS |
|---|---|---|
| Akram Khabibullaev Librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Central Eurasian Studies |
akkhabib@indiana.edu Wells Library E960 (812) 855-9885 |
History of Medieval Arabic Literature and Islamic Civilization; Library and Information Science |
Staff
| MAIN OFFICE NUMBER (812) 855-5993 |
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| STAFF MEMBER | CONTACT | QUESTIONS REGARDING |
|---|---|---|
| Nathan Hendershott Undergraduate Academic Advisor |
nahender@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 437 (812) 855-6263 Current students may schedule an appointment online using StarNet. After logging in, choose Schedule an Appointment, and select "nahender" from the drop-down list of advisors. |
Undergraduate advising, Scheduling visits to campus for prospective students, Undergraduate degree requirements |
| Connie Sue May Department Coordinator |
csmay@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 214 1011 E. Third St. (812) 856-4819 |
Accounting, course scheduling |
| Ashleigh Baker Academic Secretary |
bakerasm@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 219 1011 E. Third St. (812) 855-1793 Most requests will need to be submitted in writing. Please consider email as the first line of communication. We typically respond to inquiries within 2 business days. |
Academic progress, admissions, applications |
| Michael Bevers Sara Sowers Steve Stanzak Graduate Assistants |
nelc@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 219 1011 E. Third St. (812) 855-5993 |
General inquiries about the Department |
