Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty :: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Hakki Erdem Çıpa Assistant Professor	ecipa@indiana.edu Goodbody 157 (812) 855-2233	History and historiography of the Ottoman Empire, Dissident movements, rebellions, succession struggles, Socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Empire, Feudalism, Agrarian societies of the late middle ages and the early modern era
Devin DeWeese Associate Professor	deweese@indiana.edu Goodbody 301 (812) 856-0025	Islamic Central Asia, Soviet Central Asia, Sufism, Islamization, religions and Inner Asia, and Islamic hagiography
Henry Glassie College Professor	glassieh@indiana.edu 506 N. Fess 205 812-855-1499	Folk art and material culture; Historical approaches; the United States, Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh
Jane Goodman Adjunct Professor	janegood@indiana.edu 800 E. Third St. (812) 855-3232	Berber studies, Language, performance and identity, Colonial and postcolonial formations, Textuality and discourse, with particular emphasis on the Middle East, North Africa, and France.
Christiane Gruber Assistant Professor	chgruber@indiana.edu 1201 E. Seventh St., Office 129 (812) 855-6714	Islamic painting and illustrated manuscripts, Islamic calligraphy, Modern Iranian art
John Hanson Associate Professor	jhhanson@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall, Rm. 731 (812) 855-5212	West African history, Muslim communities, Social/cultural history
Feisal Istrabadi Adjunct Visiting Professor	fistraba@indiana.edu Law School 243 (812) 855-7995	Constitutional Democracy, Iraqi politics, Processes of building legal and political institutions in countries in transition from dictatorship to democracy
R. Kevin Jaques 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
Matthias B. Lehmann Adjunct Associate Professor	mlehmann@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 836 (812) 855-4250	Early modern and modern Jewish history, Sephardic studies
Consuelo López-Morillas Adjunct Professor	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
Paul Losensky Adjunct 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, and Central Asia, Literature, architecture, and topography, Sufism and literature, Comparative studies in the Baroque, Translation and translation studies
Herbert Marks Adjunct Associate Professor	marks@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 914 (812) 855-7935	Biblical studies, Medieval Italian masters, the Modern novel, and Twentieth-century poets
Thomas Mathiesen Adjunct Professor	mathiese@indiana.edu Aydelotte Hall 236 (812) 855-4250	History of music, Music theory in the ancient worlds and the Middle Ages, Greek codicology, Organology, Translations, Editions of early Greek and Byzantine music sources, Theory of textual criticism, Bibliography, Music for silent films
Christine Ogan Affiliated Professor	ogan@indiana.edu Ernie Pyle Hall 206a (812) 855-1699	International communications, Information and communication technology issues, Social informatics, Middle East and Western Europe
Karen Rasler Affiliated Professor	krasler@indiana.edu Woodburn Hall 210 (812) 855-2027	International conflict and cooperation, Relative decline of world powers, War and statebuilding processes, Societal consequences of war, Modeling long cycles of war, Distribution of power and technological innovations, Political violence and internal wars, American Foreign Policy
Ruth Stone Affiliated Professor	stone@indiana.edu 508 N. Fess 104 (812) 855-0398	Music as culture and performance, Theory of ethnomusicology, Africa, the Middle East
Steven Weitzman Adjunct Professor	sweitzma@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall (812) 855-1174	Biblical and Early Jewish Literature and Religion, Role of violence in early Jewish culture, Old Testament