Erin Dickerson earned her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 2026, majoring in Middle Eastern studies with a concentration in Turkish and a minor in political science. She is a Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) recipient, Foreign Language and...
Ashley Koca studies the art and architecture of medieval and early modern Iran and Armenia. She is interested in theories of reception, particularly as they relate to questions of the use and reuse of shared motifs, material, and architectural...
Abdul Manan Bhat is a scholar of Islam, devotional literature, and material religion, specializing in Islamic discourses on poetry with a focus on the Persianate world. Urdu and Persian literature is at the heart of his teaching and research interests. At...
Anwar Mhajne, a native of Umm al-Fahem, is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Stonehill College. Her research focuses on feminist security studies, critical cybersecurity, disinformation, and Middle Eastern politics...
Balıkçıoğlu is a textual scholar and an intellectual historian whose research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, theology, and Sufism in the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is particularly interested in the Ottoman synthesis of Graeco-Arabic...
Fernando Casamayor Molina is a PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture and Middle Eastern Studies. He specializes in architectural archaeology, urbanism, and inequality in the early Islamic period, particularly in the Middle East. He earned...