Ghazi Faisal Al-Mulaifi,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ghazi@nyu.edu
Education: BA SUNY-Purchase College; MA New York University; PhD New York University
Research Interests: Kuwaiti pearl-diving music; Global jazz; Music and sea trade in Indian Ocean; Aesthetics; Philosophy
Laure Salma Assaf,
Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, Anthropology and Social Research and Public Policy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: laure.assaf@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Paris Nanterre University
Research Interests: Arabian Peninsula; United Arab Emirates, Youth, Migration, Hierarchies, Social change, Anthropology
Maya Kesrouany,
Assistant Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mk5725@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University of Beirut; MA American University of Beirut; PhD Emory University
Research Interests: twentieth- and twenty-first century cultural production from the Middle East; translation theory; ae...
Monica Marks,
Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mlm27@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Oxford University
Research Interests: Contemporary Politics of the Middle East and North Africa; Religion & Politics; Secularism; Islamist...
Bilal Orfali,
Program Head, Arabic; Visiting Professor of Middle East and Arab Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bo29@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Yale University
Research Interests: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Literature, Philology
Erin Pettigrew,
History Program Head; Associate Professor of History and Arab Crossroads Studies; Global Network Associate Professor of History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: erin.pettigrew@nyu.edu
Education: BA Hollins University; MA University of California Los Angeles; PhD Stanford University
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century West Africa, histories of Islam, race, and healing
Nathalie Peutz,
Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies and Anthropology; Network Associate Professor of Anthropology
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: npeutz@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Princeton University
Research Interests: forced migration and displacement; mobility and immobility; conservation and development; identity a...
Maurice Pomerantz,
Senior Director NYUAD Institute, Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mp147@nyu.edu
Education: BA, MA, and PhD University of Chicago
Research Interests: Arabic literature
Jonathan Shannon,
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: jhs7@nyu.edu
Education: BA Stanford University; PhD CUNY
Research Interests: Arab world; Mediterranean; Music; Arts; Aesthetics; Migration; Food
Justin Stearns,
Program Head, Arab Crossroads Studies; Professor of Arab Crossroads; Global Network
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jks8@nyu.edu
Education: BA Dartmouth College; PhD Princeton University
Research Interests: intersection of law, science, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East
Faculty | Title | Program |
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Robert Allen | Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History, Social Science | Economics |
May Al-Dabbagh | Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy | Social Research and Public Policy |
Georgi Derluguian |
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy | Social Research and Public Policy |
Andrew J. Eisenberg | Assistant Professor of Music | Music |
Tarek al-Ghoussein | Arts Professor of Visual Arts | Visual Arts |
Dale Hudson | Associate Teaching Professor of Film and New Media and Curator of Film and New Media | Film and New Media |
Philip Kennedy | Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature |
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Masha Kirasirova |
Assistant Professor of History | History |
Taneli Kukkonen |
Professor of Philosophy | Philosophy |
Salwa Mikdadi | Associate Professor Practice of Art History | Art and Art History |
John O'Brien | Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy | Social Research and Public Policy |
Zeynep Ozgen | Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy | Social Research and Public Policy |
Denise-Marie Teece | Assistant Professor of Art History | Art and Art History |