- Nadia Abu El-Haj (Co-Director), Department of Anthropology, Barnard College
- Brinkley Messick (Co-Director), Department of Anthropology
- Lila Abu-Lughod, Department of Anthropology
- Bashir Abu-Manneh, Department of English, Barnard College
- Gil Anidjar, Department of Religion
- Peter Awn, Department of Religion
- Taoufik Ben-Amor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- Akeel Bilgrami, Department of Philosophy
- Brian Boyd, Columbia Center for Archaeology
- Hamid Dabashi, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- Marwa Elshakry, Department of History
- Katherine Franke, Law School
- Mona El-Ghobashy, Department of Political Science, Barnard College
- Najam Haidar, Assistant Professor of Religion, Barnard College
- Thomas JW Hill, Committee on Global Thought
- Jean E. Howard, Department of English and Comparative Literature
- Rhoda Kanaaneh, Department of Anthropology
- Ousmane Kane, School of International and Public Affairs
- Mona Khalidi, Assistant Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
- Rashid Khalidi, Department of History
- Darryl Li, Committee on Global Thought
- Mahmood Mamdani, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- Timothy Mitchell, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- Bruce Robbins, Department of English and Comparative Literature
- George Saliba, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- James Schamus, School of the Arts
- Maryam Zohny, Program Director