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zeynep atalay

Zeynep Atalay

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Saint Mary’s College
political sociology, Globalization, civil society, social movements, political Islam, sociology of religion and culture

Anne Baylouny

Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
Institutional creation and grassroots organizing for collective goods and services; Islamism, social mobilization, and the influence of constituencies; youth, Islamist media, Islamist women, and Hizbullah; refugees, diasporas, conflict, and institutions; Middle East

Patricia Blessing

H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellow, Society of Architectural Historians
Islamic art and architecture, medieval art history and archaeology, Turkey, Anatolia, cross-cultural exchange

John Dunlop

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Russia and Islam

Ala Ebtekar

Visiting Artist, Institute for Diversity in the Arts
Contemporary Islamic Art and Visual Culture, Epics, Paintings, Public Art, Urban Space, Iran

John Eilts

Curator, Islamic and Middle Eastern Collections, Stanford University Libraries

Donald Emmerson

Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
History, politics, economics of Southeast Asia

Rachel Gillum

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation
Muslim-Americans, integration, immigration, government relations, discrimination

Ryan Gingeras

Visiting Scholar
Turkey and the Ottoman Empire; South Balkans; Middle East; North Caucasus; Comparative world history; Organized crime and the drug trade

Sadaf Jaffer

Postdoctoral Fellow in Literary Cultures of Muslim South Asia
South Asia, Islam, secularism, modernity, Social Justice

Gail Lapidus

Senior Fellow, Emerita, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union, the Russian-Chechen war, Soviet society, politics and foreign policy

Abbas Milani

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution; Director of the Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
Islam and the West
Oludamini Ogunnaike

Oludamini Ogunnaike

Postdoctoral Fellow in Islam in Africa
AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; ISLAM; SUFISM; SUFI POETRY; AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS; IFA/ORISA/YORUBA RELIGION; MODERNITY; POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; INDIGENOUS THEORY; COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY, STUDY OF RELIGION