Faculty

Media, journalism, the Middle East, expressivity, human rights, knowledge production, democracy, ethnography of place My research revolves around expression, space, media, and settler colonialism. I am currently working on two book projects. The first, tentatively entitled "Permission to Converse: Laws, Bullets, and other Roadblocks to a Palestinian Exchange," addresses the relationship between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, two groups that are positioned slightly differently in relation to Israeli settler-colonialism. Through ethnographies of protest as well as of more everyday forms of expression, I analyze the barriers to these two groups speaking to and with each other. I argues that speech is always an embodied and emplaced act. My second ongoing project examines Palestinian popular politics in a West Bank refugee camp. It examines how Palestinians in this refugee camp strive to resist three authorities, the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Authority administration, and the United Nations Relief Works Agency through struggles over land, water, bodies, and expression. My first book, Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013) is an ethnography of production of US news during the second Palestinian Intifada. It asks what we can learn about journalism and popular political action when we place Palestinian journalists at the center of an inquiry about U.S. journalism. In addition to academic writing, I also regularly write for such outlets as Jadaliyya, Middle East Report. I have produced the documentary "Degrees of Incarceration" (2010), an hour-long documentary that explores how, with creativity and love, a Palestinian community responds to the crisis of political imprisonment. Finally, I have been involved with the production of bilingual Arabic and English children's books about refugee lives, including The Boy and the Wall.

Medical anthropology, science and technology, environment, ethnicity and indigeneity, nationalism, post-socialism. Geographic focus: Russia; North Asia My first book, Mixing Medicines: the Politics of Health in Postsocialist Siberia (Fordham 2021), follows Russia's official medical sector's attempts to reinvent itself through state-led initiatives of "medical integration" that aim to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region on the border of Russia and Mongolia known for its post-Soviet revival of "Tibetan medicine" and shamanism, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows. My current research project explores how the use of "smart drugs" reconfigures discourses and experiences of clinical, social, and work-related efficacy, as they circulate across borders and enter divergent pharmaceutical, medical, and ethical regimes between Russia and the United States. Focused on a contentious category of pharmaceuticals labeled "nootropics" – a chemically fluid taxonomic classification that encompasses a variety of synthetic and naturally-derived substances designed to enhance cognitive functions – the project interrogates what types of selves, regimes of labor, therapeutic ideologies, and temporalities of embodiment these substances help mediate and enact.

I am interested in histories and cultures of medicine, especially as they pertain to gender, kinship, caste, law, and everyday intimacies, with a regional focus on South Asia. I am also interested in the ways knowledge about bodies and minds moves across time and place, and how, in such movements, colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial scientific imaginations seed critical genealogies, often counterintuitively. In the diverse ways people make use of medicine and science, I am drawn to the forms of creativity, imagination, and ethical world-making that emerge in the interstices of authority and power. My research has considered childbirth, infant mortality, and birth-work in Uttar Pradesh, India, noting the way reproductive health interventions reiterate caste and the marginalization of Dalit women; women's movement through psychiatric care settings in urban north India and the intersections of kinship dissolutions with crisis and care; and histories of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in South Asia as they pertain to women's lives and gendered diagnoses, notably "hysteria" and its avatars.

Museum and Heritage Studies, African Arts, Institutional Theories, Value and Valuation, Historiography

Theoretical perspectives on the integration of culture and human development; Narratives of identity and place in communities; Navigating multiple cultural worlds, with a focus on ethnic minority, immigrant, and under-represented communities; Interpretive and Narrative Analysis methods in the study of children and families.

Political Theory, American Politics, Civic Studies

environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety

water, sanitation, hygiene, infectious diseases, developing countries, emergencies

epidemiologic methods

Greek & Latin Language, Digital Humanities

Ancient Art and Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar (PIE Linguistics), Roman Satire, Post-Augustan Literature, Latin and Greek Pedagogy

Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, and ancient Chinese history

Roman history, archaeology, North Africa in Antiquity, Ancient History, Balkans and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and International Relations

Medieval Latin Philosophy; Classical Arabic Philosophy; History and Philosophy of Logic; Aristotle; Avicenna

The response of societies and their governments to cross-border health threats; social theory and the development of sociological approaches to political problems: eg. the 'new institutionalism' in sociology and political science; the impact of cultural frameworks and social institutions on population health; the comparative historical study of epidemics; the generation and international transfer of scientific knowledge; risk regulation in the face of scientific uncertainty and globalization.

cyber security, web engineering

Applied and Theoretical Economic Models and Empirics

Applied General Equilibrium Models, International Trade Policy, International Labor Standards, Child Labor

Resource and Environmental Economics, Energy and Development, Water

Development Economics, Agricultural Economics

International Trade, International Finance

Macroeconomics, Macro-Labor, International Macroeconomics

Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral / Experimental Economics

Urban Economics, Housing, International Migration, Development Economics

Macroeconomics

Political Economy, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Development Policy, with an emphasis on Africa

Industrial organization, merger analysis

Political Economy, International Economics, Economic Growth and Development

Development and Growth, Urban Economics

Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora South Asian Literature Litertures of Empire Post-colonial Theory Feminist Theory Literary Theory

Modern Literature (American, British), Modern Intellectual History (American, British), Aesthetics, Literary Theory

Modern Russia and Eastern Europe, the cultural Cold War, global communism, transnational history

Armenia and Cross-Cultural World Early Modern Europe

U.S. in the World, International History, Modern U.S. History

Middle East

Modern France in the World, Colonial West Africa

South Asia, the Muslim World

Modern East Africa

Late Antique & Medieval Western Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe, Papal-Imperial relations

Early Modern Europe, the History of Science and Medicine, Women's History, the History of the Body and Sexuality

Industrial and Urban U.S., Immigration

Middle Period China, Late Imperial China, Women's History, the History of Material Culture

Modern Arabic Literature, High school Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, second language acquisition, high school political science and philosophy instruction

Twentieth-Century/Contemporary Russian Literature and Culture; Narratives of War, Russian and Comparative; Reception studies; Sexuality

Modern Japanese Literature, fiction, poetry, criticism. Literary and Film theory. Postmodernism. Avant-garde art. Experimental film.

Premodern and modern Japanese literature, figurality and the development of modern consciousness, gothic studies, realism, lyricism, animism, and eschatology.

History and theory of animation Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga) Modern Japanese literature Popular culture, especially science fiction and fantasy Contemporary constructions of gender and the body Technology and culture Fan culture Representations of trauma and loss

Comparative literature, film studies, modern Arabic literature, modern Persian literature, memory studies, postcolonial studies

Seventeenth to twenty-first century German literature in its European context; Literature and the Environment, Discourses of Sustainability; Literary and Cultural Theory, Theories of Reading; Intersections of Literature, Science, and Philosophy; Media Studies, Aesthetics of the Human Voice; Post-dramatic Theater; History of Germanistik in the United States 1933-1945

Modern Chinese Literature, Chinese Culture, Film

Music, ritual, and trance; music and underrepresented minorities; musics of North Africa, Sufism, and Islam; rhythmic theory; global jazz

Expertise: Musicology; Research interests: 16th and 17th c. Music; the Cultural History of Philosophy; Stoicism and Neostoicism; Tone and Timbre; Mexican Music.

Roman history, archaeology, North Africa in Antiquity, Ancient History, Balkans and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and International Relations

Feminism, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Philosophical Method, Philosophy and Film

Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

Ethics, Political and Social philosophy

Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Europe

International Relations

Comparative Politics, Latin America

Political Theory

International Relations, Security Studies

Political Theory, American Politics, Civic Studies

Comparative Political Economy, International Development, Oil and Energy, Environmental Studies, the Middle East

International Relations, Middle East

Comparative Politics, East Asia, family policy

Comparative Politics, Africa, African-American Politics

Comparative Politics, post-Communist region

Political Theory

International Relations, Security Studies, International Relations Theories

Social Cognition, Stereotyping, Prejudice, Discrimination

Areas of Specialization: Modern Jewish thought; Jewish law and ethics; philosophy of religion; moral, legal and political philosophy. Areas of Competence: Medieval Jewish thought; rabbinic literature; pragmatism; 20th century philosophy; theories of religion.

Global Christianity American Religious History Religion, Humanitarianism and Philanthropy Religion, Health and Healing Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Religion and Reform Movements Gender and Women's Studies in Religion

Life and Thought of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Religious Thought of al-Andalus and the Maghrib, Sufism, Contemporary Muslim religious discourse, especially in Egypt,

Modern and contemporary Hinduism; religion and colonialism in modern South Asia; Bengal and Sanskrit learning

Mahayana Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, religion in early South Asia, Chinese Religions, Anthropology of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Religious Philosophy

19th- and 20th-Century French Poetry, with an emphasis on Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton and Bonnefoy French Symbolism and French Surrealism Poetry and Philosophy Poetry and music

Nineteenth-Century Latin American literature; Nation building; The culture of outlaws; Visual culture and film studies; Travel narratives; Popular culture

Colonial Latin American Studies, Latin American and Spanish Poetry, Andean Studies, Film Studies, Endangered Languages

Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian Literature

Twentieth century Latin American fiction; Jorge Luis Borges; poetry and poetics; Oulipo; translation studies; song and songwriting

He specializes on the sculpture and architecture of the Mexica (Aztec) and socio-political history and visual culture of colonial Mexico. His interests include visual manifestations of indigenous governance, Pre-Columbian architecture and urbanism, global interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, colonial and post-colonial visual strategies, Open Churches of Sixteenth Century Mexico, the Habsburg empire, kunstkammer, museum studies, and modern architectural history.

Race and Gender Stratification; Labor Markets; Immigrant Incorporation; Quantitative Methods; Field Experiments; Comparative Sociology; Latin America

The response of societies and their governments to cross-border health threats; social theory and the development of sociological approaches to political problems: eg. the 'new institutionalism' in sociology and political science; the impact of cultural frameworks and social institutions on population health; the comparative historical study of epidemics; the generation and international transfer of scientific knowledge; risk regulation in the face of scientific uncertainty and globalization.