Staff
Director
Melani Cammett
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Melani_Cammett@Brown.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Prospect House, Department of Political Science, room 302
Program Administrator
Jose Torrealba
Jose_Torrealba@Brown.edu
Watson Institute for International Studies, 3rd floor, room # 322
Student Assistants
Julia Sheehy-Chan
Undergraduate Student
julia_sheehy-chan@brown.edu
Faculty
Asef Bayat
Aga Khan Visiting Professor of Islamic Humanities
Department of Sociology
Asef_Bayat@brown.edu
Ashutosh Varshney
Professor of Political Science
Ashutosh_Varshney@brown.edu
Becky L. Schulthies
Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
Becky_Schulthies@brown.edu
David Jacobson
Director of the Program in Judaic Studies
Professor of Judaic Studies
David_Jacobson@Brown.edu
Dennis Hogan
Professor of Sociology
Dennis_Hogan@brown.edu
Elizabeth S. Kassab
Visiting Professor of the Humanities
Cogut Center for the Humanities
Elizabeth_Kassab@brown.edu
Hussein Banai
Research Affiliate, Center for International Studies, MIT
Visiting Scholar, Political Theory Project, Brown University
Adjunct Professor, Naval War College
Hussein_Banai@Brown.edu
Ian Straughn
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Archaeology, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Ian_Straughn@Brown.edu
Iraj Anvar
Visiting Lecturer in Language Studies
Center for Language Studies
Iraj_Anvar@brown.edu
James P. Allen
Wilbour Professor of Egyptology, Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
jamespallen@Brown.edu
Kathryn DeMaster
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Center for Environmental Studies
Kathryn_DeMaster@brown.edu
Laurel Bestock
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Laurel_Bestock@brown.edu
Lina Fruzetti
Professor of Anthropology
Lina_Fruzzetti@Brown.edu
Marcy Brink-Danan
Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Marcy_Brink-Danan@Brown.edu
Martha Joukowsky
Director, Petra, Jordan Great Temple excavations
Professor Emerita, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Martha_Joukowsky@brown.edu
Matthew Rutz
Assistant Professor of Egyptology and the Ancient World
Matthew_Rutz@brown.edu
Maud Mandel
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History
Maud_Mandel@Brown.edu
Melani Cammett
Director, Middle East Studies
Associate Professor of Political Science
Melani_Cammett@Brown.edu
Mirena Christoff
Lecturer in Arabic, Center for Language Studies
Mirena_Christoff@brown.edu
Mohammad El-Sharkawi
Lecturer in Language Studies, Center for Language Studies
Mohammad_Al-Sharkawi@brown.edu
Nancy Khalek
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Nancy_Khalek@brown.edu
Nina Tannenwald
Associate Professor of International Studies, WIIS
Nina_Tannenwald@brown.edu
Nukhet A. Sandal
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies
Nukhet_Sandal@brown.edu
Omer Bartov
Chair, History
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies
Omer_Bartov@brown.edu
Ömür Harmansah
Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Omur_Harmansah@brown.edu
Palmira Brummett
Visiting Professor of History.
Palmira_Brummett@Brown.edu
R. David Coolidge
Muslim Chaplain, Chaplains Office
Robert_Coolidge@brown.edu
Reda Bensmaia
Chair, French Studies
Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature
Reda_Bensmaia@Brown.edu
Robert Kohn
Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Robert_Kohn@Brown.edu
Robyn S. Creswell
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Robyn_Creswell@brown.edu
Stratis Papaioannou
Assistant Professor of Classics
Eustratios_Papaioannou@brown.edu
Susan E. Alcock
Director, Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology
Professor of Classics
Susan_Alcock@brown.edu
Susan A. Harvey
Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religious Studies
Susan_Harvey@brown.edu
Sheila Bonde
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Sheila_Bonde@brown.edu
Sherine Hamdy
Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of the Social Science
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Sherine_Hamdy@brown.edu
Shiva Balaghi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cogut Center for Humanities
Shiva_Balaghi@brown.edu
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Assistant Professor of History
Vazira_F-Y_Zamindar@brown.edu
Ziad Bentahar
Visiting Lecturer, Center for Language Studies
Ziad_Bentahar@brown.edu
Librarian
Ian Straughn
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Archaeology
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Ian_Straughn@Brown.edu
