Baber Johansen was appointed Professor of Islamic Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School in 2005. Prior to his appointment, he served as Directeur d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Centre d'étude des normes juridiques)...
William Granara is research professor of the practice of Arabic at Harvard University in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Literature. He is also the founding director of Harvard Summer School’s program...
Leila Ahmed came to the Divinity School in 1999 as the first professor of women's studies in religion and was appointed to the Victor S. Thomas chair in 2003. Prior to her appointment at HDS, she was professor of women's studies and Near Eastern studies...
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, a comparative sociologist and medical anthropologist, is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. She also teaches in the Department of Sociology...
Since the beginning of his career, Caton has been a specialist of Arabic and the Middle East, with an emphasis on Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula. His earliest work was in anthropological linguistics and poetics which culminated in his first book, Peaks...
Kay K. Shelemay received her BM (1970), MA (1972), and PhD (1977) from the University of Michigan. Shelemay taught at Columbia University (1977-82), New York University (1982-90), and Wesleyan University (1990-92), before joining the Harvard faculty in...
Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Emerita at Harvard University. Her book, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Ber...
William A. Graham was a member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1973-2018 and a member of the Faculty of Divinity from 2002-2018. He served as Dean of Harvard Divinity School from 2002 to 2012, after which he returned to fulltime...