DISC Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Islamic Studies faculty at Duke: Diverse and Interdisciplinary
DISC's core and affiliated faculty represent disciplines and departments across the university. Their areas of expertise reflect their disciplinary interests and their specific interests in Islamic Studies.
Areas of Expertise by Faculty:
Abdullah Antepli, Duke Divinity School faculty; Division of Student Affairs, Chaplain, Muslim Student Association
Bruce B. Lawrence: Comparative religious movements and fundamentalisms; Institutional Islam; Indo-Persion Sufism; Religion and violence
miriam cooke: Arabic; Modern Arabic literary and cultural studies; Islamic feminism
Elizabeth Davis: Peace and vonflict; migration and borderlands; medical and psycologocial anthropology; Europe and the Middle East
Katherine Ewing: Islam in South Asia, Europe, and the US; ethnicity, migration and identity; gender and minorities
Jehanne Gheith: Russian literature and culture; gender studies; memory and trauma studies
Erdağ Göknar: Identities and nationalisms in Ottoman/Turkish contexts; Turkish language and culture; historiography and literature; comparative research in Middle Eastern, Eurasian, and Balkan studies
Güven Güzeldere: Philosophophy of mind; philosophy of science
Bruce Hall: History of West Africa; Saharan commercial and intellectual networks; Sufism
Mona Hassan: Assistant Professor, Religion and History (Coming Fall 2009)
Engseng Ho: social theory; ethnographic history and text; diaspora; precolonial cosmopolitanism; Islam; Middle East; Southeast Asia; Indian Ocean
Mary Hovsepian: Sociology of economic change and development; sociology of gender; Middle East
Timur Kuran: Economic history of the Middle East, Islamism, Social Change, Turkey
Mbaye Lo, Islam in America, theories of civil society in Arab and Muslim contexts; Arabic language and literature in Africa
Abdeslam Maghroaui: Democratic governance in Muslim societies; Middle East politics; religion, politics, and violence
Ellen McLarney: Arabic language and literature; Feminist theologies in Islam
Ebrahim Moosa: Islamic law; moral philosophy'ethics; critical thought
Negar Mottahedeh: Iranian studies; Women's studies; Cultural studies; Postcolonial studies: Middle Eastern studies
David Need: Central Asian religion and culture, World religions, Comparative Orthodoxies
Jen'nan Ghazal Read: Arab Americans and Muslims; social determinants of health; gender and ethnic inequality; sociology of religion; more information about Professor Read
Rebecca Stein: Middle East; nationalism; postcolonialism; globalization; sexuality; culture theory
Mustafa Tuna, Assistant Professor, Slavic & Eurasian Studies and History (coming Fall 2009)
Areas of Expertise by Subject
Commentary & Profiles
OP-ED: JEN'NAN GHAZAL READ
DESPITE MEDIA IMAGE, U.S. MUSLIMS DIVERSE
Stereotypes create hostility and ignore the ways Islamic America is like the rest of the country. Read complete op-ed. More information about Professor Read.
PROFILE: ABDULLAH ANTEPLI
As Duke's first Muslim chaplain and a new addition to the Duke Divinity School faculty, Antepli’s work at Duke will focus on three primary areas: religious leadership for Duke’s Muslim community, pastoral care and counseling for persons of any faith or no ascribed faith, and intra- and interfaith work. He will teach two introductory courses on Islam, and engage students, faculty and staff across campus through seminars, panels, and other avenues to provide an Islamic voice to discussions of faith, spirituality, social justice, and life in general . . .
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"FULLY ENGAGING DUKE ENGAGE" DUKE CHRONICLE OP-ED, MBAYE LO
"DISC found in DukeEngage a platform through which students can extend their outreach to Muslim societies of the Middle East and be emissaries of mutual understanding between the United States and the Muslim world." Read Lo's entire op-ed.