Islamic Art
Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums
Contact:
The Harvard University Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
(617) 495-9400
Areas of Expertise:
Islamic and later Indian art; Islamic painting of the 14th-17th century
David Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, History of Art and Architecture Department
Contact:
617-496-1056
roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Islamic art and architecture; arts of the Islamic book; album making; architecture in Iran and Central Asia
Islamic Intellectual History
M. Shahab Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Contact:
Barker Center 413
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-4585
617-496-5798
msahmed@fas.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Islamic intellectual history; Islamic orthodoxy; representations of the Prophet Muhammad through history; Qur’an, Hadith
Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Contact:
Study of Religion
Barker Center, Room 305
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-5755
Fax: 617-496-5798
Email: aliasani@fas.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Islam in South Asia; Shi’a and Sufi devotional traditions in South
Asia; popular or folk forms of Muslim devotional life; Muslim
communities in the West
Islamic Legal Studies
Baber Johansen, Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Acting Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School
Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School
Contact:
bjohansen@hds.harvard.edu
(617) 495-1014
Areas of Expertise:
Religion and law in the classical and modern Muslim world; law, social practice and ethics in Islam; modern Muslim debates on state models
Islam in the West
Steven C. Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Social Anthropology Department
Contact:
William James Hall 318
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-1886
caton@wjh.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Islam in the West; politics of water sustainability in the Middle East; film theory and cultural studies; Yemen
Jocelyne Cesari, Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Lecturer on Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Director, Islam in the West Program
Contact:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
38 Kirkland Street, room 206
jcesari@fas.harvard.edu
(617) 495-8787
Areas of Expertise:
Islam in the West; Muslim communities in Europe and the United States; global Islam
Jane I. Smith, Senior Lecturer in Divinity & Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs, Harvard Divinity School
Contact:
Andover Hall 207
Assistant: Matthew Turner
mturner@hds.harvard.edu
617-496-2034
Areas of Expertise:
Women in Islam; Muslim communities in America; historical and theological relations between Christians and Muslims; Christian-Muslim interfaith dialogue
Language and Literature
Luis Giron Negron, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Contact:
Dana Palmer House 104
Boylston Hall G-23
(617) 495-2567
giron@fas.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature; medieval, Arabic, Latin and Hebrew Literatures; history of religions; comparative literature
William Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Contact:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
38 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-9065
granara@fas.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Arabic language and literature; Arabic historiography; medieval Islam; literary criticism focusing on post-colonialism and cross cultural poetics
Public Policy
Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Contact:
Taubman 452
617-496-3036
Assistant: 617-495-9455
Tarek_Masoud@ksg.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Civil society and development; democracy; democratization; elections; Middle East; political organizing; religion; voting
Religion & Education
Diane L. Moore, Professor of the Practice in Religious Studies and Education, and Director of the Program in Religious Studies and Education
Contact:
Divinity Hall 307
Assistant: Hayfa AbdulJaber
617-496-8508
habduljaber@hds.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Religion, democracy and public education; teaching about religion in the schools from a multicultural perspective; arts, education and social change
Religious Pluralism
Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Faculty of Divinity
Contact:
Study of Religion
Barker Center, Room 307
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
dianaeck@fas.harvard.edu
617-493-1600
Assistant: 617-495-5781
Areas of Expertise:
Religious pluralism in a multi-religious society, particularly in the United States and India; issues of religious pluralism and American civil society; inter-religious relations
South Asia
Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Contact:
Study of Religion
Barker Center, Room 305
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-5755
Fax: 617-496-5798
Email: aliasani@fas.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Islam in South Asia; Shi’a and Sufi devotional traditions in South Asia; popular or folk forms of Muslim devotional life; Muslim communities in the West
Women and Gender
Leila Ahmed, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
Contact:
Andover 406
Assistant: Matthew B. Turner
617-496-2034
mturner@hds.harvard.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Islam in the West; women and gender in Islam; Arab and Muslim auto/biography
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, History Department
Contact:
Boylston Hall Ground Floor G-33
Cambridge, MA 02138
najmabad@fas.harvard.edu
617-496-7460
Areas of Expertise:
Socio-cultural transformations of gender and sexuality in the modern Middle East and South Asia; genealogies of Iranian feminism; historiography of sexuality on non-Euro/American cultures
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