Faculty & Staff
- Susanna Drake
- Associate Professor of Religious Studies
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- 651-696-6544
- Hacı Osman Gündüz (Ozzy)
- Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
- Arabic literary history, Ottoman-era Arabic literature, Islamic intellectual history, classical Arabic philology and language pedagogy
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- James W. Laine
- Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies
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- 651-696-6789
- Andrew Latham
- Professor of Political Science
- International relations; regional conflict and security; foreign policy; political thought
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- 651-696-6549
- David Chioni Moore
- Associate Professor, International Studies and English
- Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.
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- 651-696-6242
- Ahoo Najafian (program co-director)
- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
- Persianate Islam, gender, poetry, modernity
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- 651-696-6186
- J. Andrew Overman
- Harry M. Drake Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Fine Arts
- Archaeology, Ancient Middle East, Ancient Religions
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- 651-696-6375
- Khaldoun Samman
- Professor of Sociology
- Focuses on world historical-comparative and urban sociology, globalization, sociology of religion, and modes of identities in the Middle East
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- 651-696-6845
- Beth Severy-Hoven
- Professor and Chair of Classics
- Roman History, Gender & Sexuality in Ancient Italy, Roman Archaeology
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- 651-696-6721
- Joëlle Vitiello
- Professor, French and Francophone Studies
- Focuses on 20th-21st-century French and francophone literature and culture; Haitian literature and culture; French and Francophone Cinema; Postcolonial identities; Immigration; Violence in France and the francophone world.
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- 651-696-6412
- Serdar Yalçin (program co-director)
- Associate Professor Ancient and Medieval Art History
- His research interests include art and identity, gender and representation, artistic interconnections in the ancient world, and western antiquarianism and the formation of the European and American antiquities collections.
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- 651-696-6924