Affiliate Faculty

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Michael Brescia

Curator of Ethnohistory, Arizona State Museum

Arizona State Museum 221N
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Julia Clancy-Smith

Regents Professor, Middle Eastern & North African Studies

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Luis Coronado Guel

Adjunct Instructor

Director, SBS Mexico Initiatives

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Jerome Dotson

Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Program

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Benjamin Fortna

Benjamin Fortna

Director, Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Professor, Middle Eastern and North African Studies

  • Modern Middle East
  • Late Ottoman Empire
  • Early Turkish Republic

Laura Frances Goffman

Assistant Professor of Health Studies of the Middle East and North Africa

  • History of Health Disease and Medicine
  • Modern Arab world
  • Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf
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David Graizbord

Professor, Judaic Studies

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Victoria Meyer

Director, Bachelor of General Studies at the University of Arizona North Valley

Assistant Professor, Bachelor of General Studies

Maha Nassar

Maha Nassar

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Associate Professor, Middle Eastern and North African Studies

  • Modern Arab world
  • Cultural and intellectual history
  • Palestinian identity formation and transnational discourses
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Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

Department Head, American Indian Studies

Professor, American Indian Studies

Joshua Schlachet

Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies

  • Japanese history
  • Food and health history
  • Material culture
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Caleb Simmons

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

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Rob Stephan

Lecturer, Religious Studies/Classics

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