The following members of the faculty are approved to serves as Sponsors (academic advisors) for doctoral dissertations in MESAAS.
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Muhsin al-Musawi Specialization Classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative cultural studies. |
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| Partha Chatterjee Specialization Political theory, South Asian politics and history. |
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| Hamid Dabashi Specialization Iranian studies, medieval and modern Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, the philosophy of art. |
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| Mamadou Diouf Specialization Urban, political, social, and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa. |
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| Wael Hallaq Specialization Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history; the intellectual history of Orientalism; the development of Islamic traditions of logic, legal theory, and substantive law. |
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| Sudipta Kaviraj Specialization Indian social and political thought in the 19th and 20th centuries; modern Indian literature and cultural production; intellectual history and South Asian politics; historical sociology of the Indian state; aspects of modern Western social theory. |
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| Rashid Khalidi Specialization Modern Middle Eastern history; the modern history of Palestine; nationalism in the Arab world; the United States and the Middle East. |
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| Mahmood Mamdani Specialization Politics and culture; the comparative study of colonialism since 1452; the history of civil war and genocide in Africa; the Cold War and the War on Terror; the history and theory of human rights. |
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| Brinkley M. Messick Specialization The anthropology of law, legal history, written culture, and the circulation and interpretation of Islamic law. |
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| Dan Miron Specialization Hebrew literature; Jewish writing and modernism; the modern Jewish literary complex. |
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| Timothy Mitchell Specialization Colonialism and modernity; the material and technical politics of the Middle East; the place of economics and other expert knowledge in the government of collective life. |
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| Sheldon Pollock Specialization Sanskrit philology, Indian intellectual and literary history, and comparative intellectual history. |
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| Frances Pritchett Specialization Modern Indic languages and literature; Urdu poetry; the poetry of Mirza Asadullah Khan. |
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| George Saliba Specialization History of Arabic and Islamic science; the development of scientific ideas from late antiquity to early modern times; the transmission of astronomical and mathematical ideas from the Islamic world to Renaissance Europe. |
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| Gil Anidjar Specialization Jews and Arabs, Political Theology, Race and Religion, Christianity, Rhetorical Exertion, Continental Philosophy |
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| Joseph Massad Specialization Modern Arab politics and intellectual history; theories of identity and culture including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race, and religion. |
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Assistant Professor |
| Allison Busch Specialization Hindi-Urdu language and literature; early modern Hindi literature and intellectual history, with a special interest in courtly India. |
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| Nanor Kebranian Specialization Modern Armenian language and literature; representations of subjection, subjecthood, and subjectivity in Armenian penological narratives; the novels of Hagop Oshagan. |
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