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I study the history of print culture and ideas in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from the late eighteenth century to the present. My research and teaching interests include: modern MENA history, politics, and cultures; intellectual and literary histories of the Arab world; histories of...

J. M. Bacon (Jules) Assistant Professor Offices, Departments, or Centers: Sociology, Environmental Studies J. M. Bacon is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department specializing in environmental sociology. Dr. Bacon’s research explores the relationship between culture, identity, and eco...

Timothy Dobe is Professor of Religious Studies at ɬÀï·¬ and currently serves as chair of the department. He received his Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School (2007) and his M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1997). He is a specialist in South Asian religions and the author of Hindu...

Fernanda Eliott is an assistant professor of computer science at ɬÀï·¬. Professor Eliott builds Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that use cognitive inspiration and Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques. Her overall goal is to develop state-of-the-art cognitively inspired...

Brigittine French joined the ɬÀï·¬ faculty in 2003 and is Professor of Anthropology. French is a linguistic and political anthropologist whose diverse body of teaching and research focuses on theoretical and ethnographic approaches to narrative, testimonial discourse, violence, gender, rights...

Ross Haenfler is Professor of Sociology at ɬÀï·¬ where he teaches Social Movements, Deviance and Social Control, Sociological Theory, Men and Masculinities, and introductory sociology courses. He loves teaching and tries to teach classes that create possibilities for students to live more...

Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an Indonesian artist-scholar serving as Assistant Professor of Music (Performance and Creativity), where he directs the Balinese Sound Ensemble and teaches courses on Heavy Metal Music, Electronic Music, and Noise and Activism. He also is a founding member of Balinese...

Shuchi Kapila teaches literature in English from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Her other teaching interests include transnational feminisms, the novel, and narrative theory. Her scholarly work focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century British colonialism and literary and cultural...

Mervat Youssef is Associate Professor of Arabic. She holds a B.S. from the University of Helwan in Cairo, an M.S. from South Dakota State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include media constructions of identity, especially in relation to news coverage of...