Faculty :: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Core Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS	Office Hours
Asma Afsaruddin Chair, Professor, NELC	aafsarud@indiana.edu Memorial M17 (812) 855-4323	Pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; Qur’anic hermeneutics; Hadith criticism; Exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Gender roles	Thursday 2:30-4:30 PM
Salman H. Al-Ani Professor, NELC	alani@indiana.edu Goodbody 204 (812) 855-8555	Arabic linguistics with a special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax	Thursday 2:30-3:45 PM
Çiğdem Balım Harding Senior Lecturer, NELC	cbalim@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 208 (812) 855-9483	Linguistics, Languages and cultures in contact, Migration and transnational communities, Contemporary Turkic languages, peoples, and communities	Monday, Wednesday 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, or by appointment
Hasan El-Shamy Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology	elshamy@indiana.edu 506 N. Fess 101 (812) 855-4124	Folklore, folktale, ballad; Psychological approaches; Africa, the Middle East	On Leave
Zaineb Istrabadi Senior Lecturer, NELC	zistraba@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 302 (812) 856-0372	Teaching Arabic as a Second Language, Interfaith dialogues, Community Outreach, Sufism	Monday 3:30-5:30 PM, By Appointment
Stephen Katz Professor, NELC	katzs@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 206 (812) 855-4744	Modern Hebrew Language and Literature, Fiction of S. Y. Agnon, American experience of Jews and Hebrew writers, Hebrew poetry	Tuesday, Thursday 1:00-2:00 PM, or by appointment
Kevin W.Martin Assistant Professor, NELC	km66@indiana.edu Goodbody Hall 241 (812) 856-6861	Modern Middle East, the Modern Islamic World, the Modern Levant (Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq), Cultural history of the Modern Arab world	Tuesday 2:00-4:00 PM, or by appointment
M. Nazif Shahrani Professor, NELC	shahrani@indiana.edu Goodbody 236 (812) 855-4858	Cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism, State and society, Islamic movements, Identity politics, Social change and modernization, Muslim family and gender dynamics in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia	On Leave
Abdulkader Sinno Associate Professor, NELC	asinno@indiana.edu http://www.sinno.com Woodburn Hall 323	Civil wars, Ethnic strife and other Territorial conflicts, Muslims in Western Politics, Political Islam	On Leave
Suzanne Stetkevych Professor, NELC	stetkevy@indiana.edu Goodbody 319 (812) 855-8722	Classical Arabic Poetry, Ritual, performance, and Historicist approaches to the qasidah, Praise Poetry to the Prophet	On Leave
Steve Vinson Associate Professor, NELC	vinsons@indiana.edu Memorial 019 (812) 856-6736	Ancient Egyptian language and literature; History of Graeco-Roman Egypt Ancient Egyptian transportation and trade, especially boats and ships	Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2:00-3:00 PM
John Walbridge Professor, NELC	jwalbrid@indiana.edu Goodbody 222 (812) 855-8689	Islamic philosophy and Islamic intellectual history, emphasis on the cultural role of philosophy and science, Baha'i studies, Islamic Studies, Islamic History	On Leave, By Appointment
Samar Attar Visiting Professor, NELC	sattar@indiana.edu Goodbody 319 (812) 855-8722		Tuesday, 10:00-12:00 pm, By Appointment