e-cmes Prospective Students
Current Students
Faculty, Staff and Associates
Visiting Researchers
CMES Alumni
Reporting on Muslim Communities
Participants of the Islam in the West Program
Executive Committee
  • Leila Ahmed , Professor of Women’s Studies in Religion
  • Ali Asani , Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Language and Culture
  • Steve Caton , Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Director, CMES
  • Jocelyne Cesari , Director of the Islam in the West Program; CMES Associate
  • Diana Eck , Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies
  • Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good , Professor of Social Medicine, Medical School
  • Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education, Emeritus
  • William A. Graham , Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion, Dean of the Divinity School
  • Peter Hall , Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and Director of the Center for European Studies
  • Baber Johansen , Professor of Islamic and religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School
  • Roy Mottahedeh , Gurney Professor of History
  • Robert Orsi, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America; Department Chair of the Study of Religion
  • Roger Owen , A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History; Acting Director (05-06), CMES
  • Frank Vogel , The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Adjunct Professor of Islamic Legal Studies, Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program
Faculty Chairs
  • Steven Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies
  • Ali Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Language and Culture