Faculty
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Ghazi Faisal Al-Mulaifi, 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
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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
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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...
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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...
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Bilal Orfali, 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
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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
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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...
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Maurice Pomerantz, Executive Director of the 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
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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
Associated NYUAD Faculty
| 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 |