Manal Mohamed Al Marzooqi,
Lecturer of Arabic Language
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: manal.almarzooqi@nyu.edu
Education: BA (Arabic Literature) College of Arabic and Islamic Studies; MA (Arabic Linguistics and Syntax) Col...
Research Interests: Arabic Language, Classical Arabic, Linguistics, Syntax, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics.
Shaikha Rashid Al Mazrou,
Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: shaikha.almazrou@nyu.edu
Education: MA Chelsea University of the Arts London
Research Interests: Sculpture, Installation, Mixed Media, Materiality
Noura Al Obeidli,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Media Studies
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: noura.alobeidli@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Westminster; MA Zayed University; BA Zayed University
Research Interests: Feminism, Patriarchy, Media Studies, News Sociology, Gender Politics, Women Empowerment, Anthropolog...
Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil,
Professor of Practice of Arabic Language
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: muhamed.alkhalil@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Damascus (1993); MA Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1998); PhD University of A...
Research Interests: Arabic language computing, Arabic corpora, literary biography, literary archives, language policy, a...
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
Nawaf Dawood Alsulaim,
Adjunct Lecturer of Legal Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: Nda2030@nyu.edu
Education: LLB United Arab Emirates
Research Interests: International Commercial Arbitration
Awam Amkpa,
Dean of Arts and Humanities; Professor of Drama, Social and Cultural Analysis;
Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: aa67@nyu.edu
Education: BA Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile-Ife); MA Ahmadu Bello University (Zaria); PhD Bristol University
Research Interests: modernisms in film and theater, postcolonial film and theater, Black Atlantic films and theater, vis...
Samuel Mark Anderson,
Lecturer
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sma326@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Washington; MA New York University; PhD University of California Los Angeles
Research Interests: visual ethnography; aesthetics; politics; performance; media; postcolonial theory; violence; war; hu...
Michael Ang,
Associate Program Head, Interactive Media; Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: michael.ang@nyu.edu
Education: MPS New York University ITP; BASc Computer Engineering University of Waterloo
Research Interests: Interactive Art; Physical Computing; Installations; Public Performance
Aikaterini Arfara,
Assistant Professor of Theater, Performance Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aa7716@nyu.edu
Education: BA Athens University; MA Athens University; PhD Paris I – Panthéon/Sorbonne University
Research Interests: public works; socially engaged art; installation; post-documentary theaters
Laure Salma Assaf,
Assistant Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies and Anthropology
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
Mitchell Atkinson III,
Lecturer of Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ma7648@nyu.edu
Education: BA Birkbeck College, University of London; MA Lancaster University; PhD Polish Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Social Theory; Phenomenology; Power; Alterity
Sun Hee Bae,
Lecturer of Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: shb398@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Harvard University
Marzia Balzani,
Program Head, Anthropology; Research Professor of Anthropology
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mb4412@nyu.edu
Education: BA King’s College, London University; MSt (Master of Studies), DPhil University of Oxford
Research Interests: ritual and kingship in northern India, diasporic Islam in the UK and Pakistan
Domna Banakou,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Interactive Media
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: domna.banakou@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Ionian University; MSc University College London; PhD Universitat de Barcelona
Research Interests: immersive virtual reality; embodiment; body ownership illusions; empathy; prosocial behavior; mental...
Jinan Bastaki,
Associate Professor of Legal Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: j.bastaki@nyu.edu
Education: LLB London School of Economics and Political Science; LLM University of California - Berkeley; PhD U...
Research Interests: International Refugee Law; Migration; Citizenship
Wendy Bednarz,
Associate Arts Professor of Arts and New Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wb41@nyu.edu
Education: BA Stephens College MFA Film, New York University;
Research Interests: filmmaking, photography, documentary
Najwa Belkziz,
Lecturer of Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: najwa.belkziz@nyu.edu
Education: BA Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane; MA Columbia University; PhD University of Melbourne
Research Interests: Historical Memory; Transitional Justice; Media; Refugees; Migration; Conflict; Peace Education; Kins...
Muhammad Umair Bilal,
Lecturer of Filmmaking Practice
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: umair.bilal@nyu.edu
Education: MA Documentary Film Direction, University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest
Research Interests: Documentary Film, Visual Anthropology, Cinematography
Camilla Boisen,
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Planning; Senior Lecturer of Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cb3861@nyu.edu
Education: BA History, University of Copenhagen; MA History, University of Copenhagen; MsEcon Political Theor...
Research Interests: Intellectual history of empire and Political Theory
Martin Bowen-Silva,
Program Head, History; Associate Professor of History and Arab Crossroads Studies; Global Network Associate Professor of History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mb5831@nyu.edu
Education: MA, PhD École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Research Interests: Atlantic World; Latin America; Communication and Politics; Emotions; Global Political History
Gwyneth Bravo,
Assistant Professor of Music; Global Network Assistant Professor of Music
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gwyneth.bravo@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, MA, University of California, Los Angeles (Historical Musicology); Fulbright Scholar Musicologi...
Research Interests: Musicology; music and politics; nationalism; exile; German aesthetic theory; 20th-century German and...
Carmen Bugan,
Visiting Assistant Professor, Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: carmen.bugan@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; MA Lancaster University, UK; MSt Balliol College, Oxford Unive...
Research Interests: Poetry and politics; poetry of witness; Cold War surveillance; Seamus Heaney; postwar East European ...
Aysan Celik,
Associate Arts Professor of Theater
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: akc256@nyu.edu
Education: BA, University of California, Los Angeles; Professional Certificate, American Repertory Theater Inst...
Research Interests: Shakespeare, devised work, documentary theater, comedy, classical texts, dance-theater, cross-gender...
Jing Chai,
Program Head, Chinese Language; Affiliated Senior Language Lecturer of Chinese
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jing.chai@nyu.edu
Education: BA East China Normal University, MA East China Normal University
Research Interests: Chinese language pedagogy, language assessments, internet and technology-based language learning, co...
Satnam Singh Choongh,
Clinical Professor of Legal Writing and Research
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ssc10097@nyu.edu
Education: LLB (Warwick); DPhil (Oxon); Barrister-at-Law
Research Interests: Planning and Environmental Law; Legal Writing and Research
Warren Churchill,
Senior Lecturer of Music; Coordinator of Musical Performance
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: warren.churchill@nyu.edu
Education: BM Crane School of Music, SUNY; MA, EdM, EdD Teachers College, Columbia University
Research Interests: childhood development, disability studies, music therapy, exceptionalities, inclusion, music philoso...
Kevin Coffey,
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Global Network Associate Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kevin.coffey@nyu.edu
Education: BA, University of Virginia; PhD, University of Michigan
Research Interests: philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language
Manuel F Contreras,
Visiting Lecturer of Film and New Media
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: mfc9983@nyu.edu
Education: BA National University of Colombia; MA Docnomads; PhD Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Research Interests: Visual representation in film, visual studies, documentary film history, film distribution and marke...
Scandar Copti,
Associate Arts Professor of Film
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sac18@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Research Interests: filmmaking, documentary, short films
John Coughlin,
Program Head, Legal Studies; Global Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Law
Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: jjc17@nyu.edu
Education: BA Niagara University; MA Columbia University; ThM Princeton Seminary; JD Harvard University Law Sch...
Research Interests: comparative religion, theology, canon law, sharia law, Talmudic law, Hindu law, comparative law, jur...
Nadine Debbas Achkar,
Visiting Professor of Practice of Legal Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nd1617@nyu.edu
Education: BA Georgetown University; JD Columbia University School of Law
Research Interests: International Arbitration; Gender and Law
Rashmi Devi Sawhney,
Associate Arts Professor of Film and New Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rashmi.s@nyu.edu
Education: BA Fergusson College, Pune; MA University of Limerick, Ireland; PhD University of Limerick, Ireland
Research Interests: Cinema studies, visual arts, curatorial practice, indigenous film and media production, South Asia, ...
Erich E. Dietrich,
Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: erich.dietrich@nyu.edu
Education: BA Carleton College; MA University of Wisconsin-Madison; PhD New York University
Research Interests: International Higher Education
Vikram Divecha,
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vd2277@nyu.edu
Education: MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University
Tishani Doshi,
Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: tvd2@nyu.edu
Education: BA Queens University; MA Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: contemporary poetry & dance
Andrew J. Eisenberg,
Program Head, Music; Associate Professor of Music; Global Network Associate Professor of Music
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aje2000@nyu.edu
Education: BMus New York University; MA, PhD Columbia University
Research Interests: anthropology of music; anthropology of sound; African popular music; sound and space; ethnicity and ...
Omima El Araby,
Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: oe7@nyu.edu
Education: BA Arabic Language and Literature, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; MA Teaching Foreign Languages...
Research Interests: Arabic language and literature
Pavlos Eleftheriadis,
Professor of Legal Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pavlos.eleftheriadis@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Athens; LLM, PhD University of Cambridge
Research Interests: Jurisprudence, rights, European Union, justice, climate change
Aude Epstein,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ae88@nyu.edu
Education: BA Sorbonne University ; MA Sciences Po Paris; PhD University of Nice Côte d'Azur
Research Interests: Environmental law and Justice ; Business Law; Animal Welfare; Constitutional Litigation
Chinasa Ezugha,
Assistant Arts Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: chinasa.ezugha@nyu.edu
Education: BA Fine Art Aberystwyth University; MA Goldsmiths University of London
Research Interests: Voice, Identity and Culture, Glossolalia
Salha Reema Fadda,
Adjunct Lecturer of Art and Art History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: reema.fadda@nyu.edu
Education: MA Edinburgh University; MA School of Oriental and African Studies; DPhil Researcher University of O...
Research Interests: Art History; Art and Politics of the Arab world; Cultural Politics
Reindert Falkenburg,
Special Academic Advisor; Visiting Professor of Early Modern Art and Culture
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rlf9@nyu.edu
Research Interests: visual arts, tensions and crises in late medieval and Renaissance art
Laila Familiar,
Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lailafamiliar@nyu.edu
Education: MA The American University in Cairo; PhD Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Research Interests: Language Teachers Education, Instructional Coaching, Curricular Design, Corpus Linguistics, Arabic L...
Nelida Fuccaro,
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies; Professor of Middle Eastern History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nf58@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Durham(UK), Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Research Interests: history of the modern Middle East
Toral Gajarawala,
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: tg38@nyu.edu
Research Interests: theories of the novel and narrative, postcolonial studies, subaltern studies, the relationship betwe...
Alexis Gambis,
Assistant Arts Professor of Film and New Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: arg391@nyu.edu
Education: BA Bard College; PhD The Rockefeller University; MFA NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Research Interests: Animal Perspectives, Docu-Fiction, History of Science, Magical Realism, Science New Wave
Mary Syretha Gatchell,
Visiting Lecturer of Music
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: msg2162@nyu.edu
Education: Bachelor of Music New York University; Master of Music New York University
Research Interests: Piano, voice, singer, oboe, composition, songwriting, Broadway, classical music, jazz, pop/rock, sou...
Terri Lynn Geis,
Visiting Associate Arts Professor
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: terri.geis@nyu.edu
Education: BA St Andrews; MA Trinity College Dublin; PhD University of Essex
Research Interests: Surrealism; Art of the Americas; Women Modernists
Carlos Guedes,
Associate Professor of Music
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cag204@nyu.edu
Education: BM Polytechnic of Porto, School of Music and Performing Arts; MA, PhD New York University
Research Interests: analysis and preservation of music, automatic music generation, interactive music systems
Elizabeth Yoonjung Han,
Adjunct Instructor of Music (Collaborative Pianist)
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yjh1@nyu.edu
Education: BM Seoul National University, South Korea; MM Seoul National University; Graduate Diploma New Englan...
Research Interests: Music performance, collaboration with diverse artists and musicians
Nathalie Handal,
Professor of Practice in Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nh53@nyu.edu
Education: MPHIL University of London; MFA Bennington College
Research Interests: Global literature, poetry, flash, literary travel writing, translation, diasporic literatures, Medi...
Oren Hanner,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: oren.hanner@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Hamburg
Research Interests: Buddhist Philosophy (Indian and Tibetan); History of Indian Philosophy; Ethics; Action Theory
Angelyn Hilgendorf,
Director and Senior Lecturer, Academic Enrichment Program
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ah133@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Tennessee; MAT Duke University
Paulo Lemos Horta,
Associate Professor Of Literature; Global Network Associate Professor of Literature
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: paulo.horta@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Toronto; MA, Queen’s University; MA, BA, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Research Interests: world literature
Dale Hudson,
Associate Professor of Film and New Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dmh2018@nyu.edu
Education: BA, Bucknell University; MA, New York University; PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Interests: postcolonial and transnational film and digital media; art, environmentalism, and globalization; fil...
Adeel Hussain,
Associate Professor of Legal Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: adeel.hussain@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Cambridge
Research Interests: Comparative Public Law; Jurisprudence; International Law; Legal and Political Theory; Global History
Nasser Isleem,
Senior Lecturer of Arabic
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nasser.isleem@nyu.edu
Education: teaching Arabic language, use of songs, proverbs, and other cultural expressions
Sabyn Javeri,
Program Head, Undergraduate Writing; Senior Lecturer of Writing and Literature & Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sabyn.javeri@nyu.edu
Education: MSt Oxford University, PhD Leicester University
Research Interests: Postcolonial Feminism, South Asian Literature, Creative Writing
George Jose,
Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gj29@nyu.edu
Education: Joint PhD, National University of Singapore (NUS) and King’s College London (KCL)
Research Interests: Urban Peripheries, Creative Cities
Sophia Kalantzakos,
Global Distinguished Professor, Environmental Studies and Public Policy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sk1392@nyu.edu
Education: BA Yale University; MA Columbia University, PhD University of the Peloponnese
Research Interests: global environmental governance, resource competition, energy, China’s belt and road initiative, EU ...
Sohail Karmani,
Senior Lecturer, Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: msk15@nyu.edu
Education: EdD University of Exeter; MA University of West London
Research Interests: second language education, applied linguistics, photography
Amy Karoll,
Visiting Lecturer
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abk9282@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; MA University of Arkansas; PhD University of California, Los ...
Amos Ezra Katz,
Senior Lecturer
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amos.katz@nyu.edu
Education: BA Vassar College; MD University of Connecticut School of Medicine; MFA New York University Tisch Sc...
Research Interests: Cinematography, education and film, documentary, screenwriting
Philip Kennedy,
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pfk1@nyu.edu
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...
Munira Khayyat,
Clinical Associate Professor
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: munira.khayyat@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University of Beirut; MPhil Cambridge University; PhD Columbia University
Research Interests: War, ecologies, resistance, Landscape, oil, theory from the south, ethnographic writing
Fiona Kidd,
Co-Program Head, Art and Art History; Associate Professor of History and Art and Art History; Global Network Associate Professor in the Study of the Ancient World
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fjk3@nyu.edu
Education: BA (Hons) University of Melbourne; PhD University of Sydney
Research Interests: identity, images and the built environment, craft production, pre-Islamic Central Asian visual art
Masha Kirasirova,
Assistant Professor of History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: masha.kirasirova@nyu.edu
Education: BA Brown University; M.Phil., PhD New York University
Research Interests: Political and Cultural History of the Soviet Union, Colonialism/Anti-colonialism, Orientalism, Trans...
Suphan Kirmizialtin,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: suphan@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Texas, Austin
Research Interests: Modern Middle East, Late Ottoman Empire, Gender Studies, Digital Humanities
Khulood Kittaneh,
Senior Lecturer, Arabic Language
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kk83@nyu.edu
Martin Klimke,
Vice Provost; Associate Professor of History; Global Network Associate Professor of History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: klimke@nyu.edu
Education: MA, PhD University of Heidelberg
Research Interests: intersections of political and cultural, diplomatic, and transnational history, 20th century US-Euro...
Taneli Kukkonen,
Professor of Philosophy; Global Network Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ktk4@nyu.edu
Education: MTh, MA, and DTh, University of Helsinki
Research Interests: classical Arabic philosophy, Aristotle, Plato
Salila Kulshreshtha,
Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Art and Art History
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: salila.kulshreshtha@nyu.edu
Education: BA Lady Shri Ram College; MA Jawaharlal Nehru University; MPhil Jawaharlal Nehru University; PhD Jaw...
Research Interests: Art and archaeology of South Asia, Religion in the Indian Ocean world, Museums and Heritage studies
Jonathan Kwan,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jonathan.kwan@nyu.edu
Education: BA Swarthmore College; PhD The Graduate Center, CUNY
Research Interests: Social and political philosophy, environmental philosophy, decolonial philosophy, philosophy of race...
Eduardo Lage Otero,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: eduardo.lageotero@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Santiago de Compostela; MA Washington University in St. Louis; PhD New York Univers...
Research Interests: Hispanic Studies; Multimedia Learning; Language Policy
Jiani Lian,
Visiting Senior Language Lecturer of Chinese
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: jnlian@nyu.edu
Education: BA Beijing Language and Culture University; MA University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Interests: Chinese Language Pedagogy; Classical Chinese Language and Literature; Active Learning
Faustin Linyekula,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Theater, Artist in Residence
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: faustin.l@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Dance and theater making/ Poetry/ Arts, culture and politics in Africa and its diasporas
Alvaro Luna,
Visiting Assistant Professor, Literature & Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: alvaro.luna@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Comparative Literature ; Literature of Migration and Diasporic Writing; Political Humanities ; Multi...
Jill Magi,
Associate Arts Professor
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jill.magi@nyu.edu
Education: MA, City College of the City University of New York; MFA, Goddard College
Research Interests: poetry and poetics, experimental literature, handmade books, alternatives to mainstream publishing, ...
Sheetal Majithia,
Assistant Professor of Literature; Global Network Assistant Professor of Literature
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sm188@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Cornell University
Research Interests: theories of modernity, globalization, comparative post-colonial literature, film, feminist, gender a...
Abhishek Majumdar,
Program Head, Theater; Associate Arts Professor of Theater
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abhishek.majumdar@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Delhi University, MBA NIT Trichy, 2 Year Theater Program ( MFA equivalent) London International ...
Research Interests: Political philosophy, dramaturgy, performance making , experimental film, opera, playwriting, direct...
Matteo Marciano,
Assistant Professor of Practice of Music Technology
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: matteo.marciano@nyu.edu
Education: BA Business Administration Bachelor from L.U.M.S.A. University in Rome, MMB Master Degree in Music B...
Research Interests: sound recording, music production, sound mixing, and music cognition
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...
Carol Martin,
Professor of Drama
Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: cm7@nyu.edu
Education: PhD NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: Theatre about real events, memorial, memory, ghosts, staging spectators, house museums
Salwa Mikdadi,
Professor of Practice of Art History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sm5436@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University of Beirut; MA J. F. Kennedy University
Research Interests: history of modern and contemporary art in the Arab world
Merritt Moore,
Distinguished Artist in Residence, Adjunct Professor of Practice
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: merritt.moore@nyu.edu
Education: BA Harvard College, PhD University of Oxford
Research Interests: Robots, Quantum Physics, Dance
Henriette Mueller,
Assistant Professor of Gender, Governance, and Society
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: henriette.mueller@nyu.edu
Education: Dr., Humboldt University Berlin
Research Interests: Multilevel Governance / EU Governance; Gender and Politics; Women and Leadership; Political Leadersh...
Piia Mustamaki,
Lecturer of Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pjm9@nyu.edu
Education: BA Hunter College of CUNY; MA Bristol University; PhD Rutgers University
Research Interests: travel narratives; gender, cultural and performance studies; Global South urbanism; cities as perfor...
Susan K Nash,
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Practice of Legal Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: skn322@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Southern California; MA & JD The George Washington University; LLM Queen Mary Unive...
Research Interests: International legal ethics, particularly in the arena of arbitration
Ram Natarajan,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vn327@nyu.edu
Education: BA Johns Hopkins University; MA New York University; PhD New York University
Research Interests: Violence; non-violence; memory; trauma; law; literature; translation; Argentina; India
Sara Niroobakhsh,
Visiting Assistant Professor
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sn2616@nyu.edu
Education: MFA, Art and Technology Studies, School of Art Institute of Chicago
Research Interests: Bio Art, Interactive Art, Performance Art, AR, VR
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
Susan Marie Ossman,
Visiting Professor of Movements and Places, Movement and Cultural Practices
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: smo7149@nyu.edu
Education: AB UC Berkeley, DEA U Paris VII, MA UC Berkeley, PhD UC Berkeley
Research Interests: Mobility, subjectivity; globalization; gender; art and scholarship
Gregory Pardlo,
Program Head, Literature and Creative Writing; Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature & Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pardlo@nyu.edu
Education: BA Rutgers University-Camden; MFA-Poetry NYU; MFA-Nonfiction Columbia University
Research Interests: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation, African American Literature, Literary Criticism
Robert Parthesius,
Program Head for Heritage and Museum Studies; Associate Professor Heritage and Museum Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rp1768@nyu.edu
Education: MA University of Amsterdam; PhD University of Amsterdam
Research Interests: Heritage Studies, Maritime Archaeology
Sarah Paul,
Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: skp5@nyu.edu
Education: BA Carleton College; PhD Stanford University
Research Interests: philosophy of action, philosophy of mind
Sandra Peters,
Co-Program Head, Art and Art History; Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sp159@nyu.edu
Education: BFA ("Vordiplom") Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden; MFA ("Diplom“) Hochschule für Bildende Kün...
Research Interests: art in architecture, sculpture, installation, moving images, performance
Erin Pettigrew,
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
Goffredo Puccetti,
Associate Professor of Practice of Visual Arts
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: goffredo.puccetti@nyu.edu
Education: Laurea cum Laude in Italian Literature and Art History from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'; Gr...
Research Interests: corporate identity, branding, visual communications
Gabriel Rabin,
Program Head, Philosophy; Associate Professor of Philosophy; Global Network Associate Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gabriel.oak.rabin@nyu.edu
Education: BA Columbia University; PhD University of California Los Angeles
Research Interests: philosophy of mind, metaphysics
Harshana Rambukwella,
Visiting Professor, Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: Harshana.Rambukwella@nyu.edu
Education: BA Peradeniya, PhD The University of Hong Kong
Research Interests: Literature, History, Nationalism, South Asia, Sociolonguistics
Aya Mohamed Salaheldin Riad,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Interactive Media
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: aya.riad@nyu.edu
Education: BSc American University in Cairo (AUC), MArch Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA),...
Research Interests: Interactive design and architecture, emotive AI, affective computing, parametric architecture, botto...
Philip Rodenbough,
Adjunct Instructor, Scientific Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: philip.rodenbough@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, MPhil., MA, Columbia University in the City of New York; BS, BA, University of Washington - Sea...
Research Interests: Scientific Writing
Nadine Roth,
Assistant Teaching Professor of History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nadine.roth@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Regina; MA University of Calgary; PhD University of Toronto
Research Interests: pre- and post-war Europe
Robert Rowe,
Professor of Music Technology
Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: rr6@nyu.edu
Education: BM, Wisconsin; MA, Iowa; PhD, MIT
Soha Sarkis,
Lecturer
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sea301@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University of Beirut; MA American University of Beirut; PhD Georgetown University
Research Interests: French colonial empire, slavery, human trafficking, migrant crisis
Gunja SenGupta,
Visiting Professor of History
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: gs2490@nyu.edu
Education: BA, University of Bombay (India); PhD, Tulane University
Research Interests: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds; US and the World with special reference to slavery and freedom; US...
Joanna Settle,
Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs and Social Impact; Arts Professor of Theater
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: js10084@nyu.edu
John Sexton,
President Emeritus of the University
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: js1@nyu.edu
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
Surabhi Sharma,
Program Head, Film and New Media; Associate Professor of Practice of Film and New Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ss12622@nyu.edu
Education: BA St. Xaviers College, Mumbai; Film Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India
Research Interests: Music, Migration in Cities, Labour and Globalisation, Gender and Health,
Hanine Shehadeh,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: hanine.shehadeh@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Amsterdam, MSc University of Amsterdam, MA Columbia University, PhD Columbia Univer...
Research Interests: Settler-colonialism; religion; nationalism; Arab World; digital colonialism
Tina Sherwell,
Director of Masters of Fine Arts in Art and Media; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: ts4591@nyu.edu
Education: BA Goldsmiths College, University of London, PhD University of Kent at Canterbury
Research Interests: identity; landscape; Arab art; Palestinian art; visual culture
Aaron Sherwood,
Associate Arts Professor of Interactive Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sherwood@nyu.edu
Education: Master's in Interactive Telecommunications, New York University (2014); BFA Jazz and Contemporary Mu...
Research Interests: Applied explorations of consciousness, cosmopoiesis, embodiment, entropy, and semiotics in multi-sen...
Michael Shiloh,
Program Head, Interactive Media; Associate Professor of Practice of Interactive Media
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ms10632@nyu.edu
Education: BS, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests: participatory installations, machine art, conceptual furniture
Charles Siebert,
Professor of Practice of Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cs4635@nyu.edu
Matthew Silverstein,
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Global Network Associate Professor of Philosophy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: matthew.silverstein@nyu.edu
Education: BA, Amherst College; BPhil, University of Oxford; PhD, University of Michigan
Research Interests: foundations of ethics, normative ethics, the philosophy of action, political philosophy, early moder...
Lee Gurdial Kaur Singh,
Lecturer
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ls6195@nyu.edu
Education: AB Mount Holyoke College; MHA University of Iowa; PhD University of California, Riverside
Research Interests: Soviet history, cultural life in the Soviet Union; ballet history, critical dance studies, social hi...
Laila Soliman,
Visiting Associate Arts Professor of Theater, Artist in Residence
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: ls6196@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University in Cairo, MA Dasarts
Research Interests: Socio-Political Theater; Post-Dramatic; Documentary Theater; Multi-disciplinary Contemporary Theater...
Alia Soliman,
Lecturer-Visual and Cultural Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: as14775@nyu.edu
Education: MA American University in Cairo, PhD University College London
Research Interests: Decolonization of curricula, ekphrasis, museum studies, visual literacy, comparative literature, vis...
Wole Soyinka,
Arts Professor of Theater
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ws2402@nyu.edu
Education: BA English Literature, Leeds University; Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Cambridge
Research Interests: Comparative Theatre Formation Across Cultures
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
Gregor Stemmrich,
Professor of Art and Art History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gs148@nyu.edu
Education: Staatsexamen (degree for teaching art); PhD Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Postdoctoral lecture qualificat...
Research Interests: new technologies in contemporary art (film and video), media theory, history of exhibitions and art ...
Corinne Stokes,
Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: corinne.stokes@nyu.edu
Education: MA in Arabic Studies and PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas a...
Research Interests: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages, linguistics, and pedagogy; music, popular culture, and socia...
Mark Swislocki,
Associate Dean, Research and Faculty Development, Arts and Humanities; Associate Professor of History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ms6027@nyu.edu
Education: BA Reed College; MA, PhD Stanford University
Research Interests: History of China; Environmental History; Food Studies; Critical Animal Studies; Global History
Nimrah Syed,
Visiting Lecturer of Interactive Media
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: nimrah.syed@nyu.edu
Education: BDes PIFD; MDes OCAD University
Research Interests: Alternative futures, discursive and speculative design, design research, collective imagination, par...
Miguel Syjuco,
Assistant Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email:
Education: BA Ateneo de Manila University; MFA Columbia University; PhD University of Adelaide
Research Interests: n politics, history, inequality, cultural identity, literature, and formal experimentation
Denise-Marie Teece,
Assistant Professor of Art History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dmt230@nyu.edu
Education: MA, PhD New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Research Interests: art and architecture in the Islamic world
Deepak Unnikrishnan,
Assistant Arts Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: du258@nyu.edu
Education: BA Fairleigh Dickinson University; MA Fairleigh Dickinson University; MFA School of the Art Institut...
Daungyewa Utarasint,
Visiting Assistant Professor
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: du9@nyu.edu
Education: BA Thammasat University; MA George Mason University; PhD The Australian National University
Research Interests: Political Violence, Voting Behavior, Gender and Violence, Southeast Asia Politics
Johannes Andreas Valentin,
Visiting Professor of Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: jav4553@nyu.edu
Education: BA Swarthmore College; MA Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro; PhD Universidade Federal ...
Research Interests: Photography; Art History; Cultural Studies
Madeleine Wolf,
Visiting Assistant Professor of French Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mdw364@nyu.edu
Education: BA Pomona College; AM Harvard University; PhD Harvard University
Research Interests: French literature, culture, and film; 19th-century French studies; sound studies; violence; gender a...
Marion Wrenn,
Executive Director of Writing; Senior Lecturer of Writing and Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mw299@nyu.edu
Education: PhD New York University
Research Interests: journalism history, study of popular culture
David Wrisley,
Professor of Digital Humanities
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: djw12@nyu.edu
Education: AB University of Chicago; MA/PhD Princeton University
Research Interests: late medieval court culture, multilingual corpora analysis, European and Mediterranean Middle Ages, ...
Mahnaz Yousefzadeh,
Affiliate Professor
Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: my16@nyu.edu
Education: PhD State University of New York, Binghamton
Research Interests: Early Modern Mediterranean and Persianate worlds. Global art history. Aesthetics and Politics.
Alia Yunis,
Visiting Associate Professor of Film and Heritage Studies
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: alia.yunis@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Minnesota; MA American University; PhD University of Amsterdam
Research Interests: Middle East & the Gulf; Film & Television; Literature; Heritage; Memory & Identity; Heritage, Food& ...
Shamoon Zamir,
Professor of Literature and Art History; Global Network Professor of Literature and Art History
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sz42@nyu.edu
Education: BA, University of London; MA, Institute of United States and Latin American Studies, London; PhD, Un...
Research Interests: literature, photography, intellectual history
William Zimmerle,
Senior Lecturer, Arts and Humanities; Affiliated Faculty Member of the Arab Crossroads Studies Program and History Program
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wgz1@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Pennsylvania; MDiv Harvard University Divinity School; BA Fairleigh Dickinson Univ...
Research Interests: Arabian Aromatics; Ancient World; Heritage Law and Policy; Near Eastern and Arabian Archaeology; Ass...
Özlem Özhabeş,
Visiting Lecturer
Affiliation: Visiting
Email: zz10021@nyu.edu
Education: BA Istanbul University; MA Middlesex University
Research Interests: Theatre, acting, directing, voice work, translation