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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...

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...

I am a Professor of History and Religious Studies at ɬÀï·¬, where I am also Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. I graduated from Vassar College with a degree in political science, an education that still informs my work and my life. I have a...

Katya Gibel Mevorach holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. She received her B.A. and M.A. in African Studies from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Gibel Mevorach is a Professor in Anthropology and American Studies at ɬÀï·¬. Baccalaureate 2017: Professor...

Tony Perman (ethnomusicology) is a specialist in the music of Zimbabwe and the semiotics of music and emotion. His monograph Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life and edited volume Music Making Community were published by the University of Illinois Press in...

Elizabeth Prevost, Frederick L. Baumann Professor of History, is a historian of modern Britain and the Empire/Commonwealth; colonial Africa; global Christianity; women and gender; and reading, publishing, and literary celebrity. She is the author of The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in...

Marion Tricoire (Ph.D., Emory University) is a teacher and scholar of African Literature and of the Francophone world. Her research interests include Sub-Saharan African literature, Francophone Studies, Urban Humanities, Queer African Studies, Postcolonial Literatures, Migration and Diaspora studies...

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...