Faculty Affiliates

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Zain Abdullah

Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts
Temple University
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Matthew Abraham

Professor of English
University of Arizona
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Atiya Aftab

Adjunct Professor, Middle Eastern Studies Program and Political Science
Member, Rutgers University Foundation Board of Overseers
Chair, Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University
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Nadia Ahmad

Associate Professor of Law
Barry University School of Law
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Aziza Ahmed

Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
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Susan M. Akram

Clinical Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
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Khalil Al-Anani

Professor of Political Science
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

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Omar Al-Dewachi

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University- New Brunswick
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Zahra Ali

Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology and Anthropology
Rutgers University – Newark
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Ousseina Alidou

Professor, Linguistics, Gender and African Studies
Rutgers University– New Brunswick
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Sabrina Alimahomed

Professor, Department of Sociology
California State University Long Beach
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Nermin Allam

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Rutgers University – Newark
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Mohamed Alsiadi

Coordinator of the Arabic Language and Cultural Studies Program
Rutgers University – Newark
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Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular

Assistant Professor
Department of History
Rutgers University – Newark
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Mohamed ‘Arafa

Assistant Professor of Law Prince Sultan University College of Law (Saudi Arabia) 
Adjunct Professor of Law Cornell Law School
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Abed Awad

Abed Awad is a partner with Awad & Khoury, LLP. Awad is an adjunct law professor at Rutgers Law School, Newark.
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Gaiutra Devi Bahadur

Associate Professor of Journalism
Rutgers University – Newark
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Asli Ü. Bâli

Professor of Law Faculty
Yale Law School
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William C. Banks

Professor Emeritus
College of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor
Syracuse University School of Law
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Esther Canty- Barnes

Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Educational and Health Law Clinic
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Beth Baron

Distinguished Professor
The City College of New York
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Hatem Bazian

Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
University of California, Berkeley
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Rabea Benhalim

Associate Professor
Colorado Law School
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Emily Berman

Associate Professor
The University of Houston Law School
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Khaled A. Beydoun

Associate Professor of Law
Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
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George Bisharat

Distinguished Senior Fellow
The Honorable Raymond L. Sullivan Professor of Law
U.C. Hastings San Francisco
School of Law
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Bidisha Biswas

Professor of Political Science
Western Washington University
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Elise Boddie

James V. Campbell Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School

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Mark Bray

Assistant Professor of History
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences – New Brunswick
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Umayyah Cable

Assistant Professor of American Culture
University of Michigan
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Ali R. Chaudhary

Professor of Sociology
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences – New Brunswick
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Cyra A. Choudhury

Professor of Law
Florida International University
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LaToya Baldwin Clark

Professor of Law and Sociology
UCLA School of Law
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Juan Cole

Professor of History
University of Michigan
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Jorge Contesse

Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Omar Dajani

Professor of Law
University of the Pacific
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Karam Dana

Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
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Timothy P. Daniels

Professor of Anthropology, Chair
Hofstra University
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Meera E. Deo

The Honorable Vaino Spencer Professor of Law
Southwestern Law School

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Karishma Desai

Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations
Graduate School of Education – New Brunswick
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Veena Dubal

Professor of Law
University of California Irvine School of Law

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Jon Dubin

Distinguished Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Stephen Dycus

Professor of Law
Environmental Law Center Vermont Law School

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Timothy Eatman

Inaugural Dean of the Honors Living Learning Community (HLLC) and Professor, Department of Urban Education
Rutgers University – Newark
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Taleed El-Sabawi

Assistant Professor of Law
Florida International University
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Sarah Eltantawi

Associate Professor of Modern Islam
Fordham University
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Noura Erakat

Undergraduate Director of Program in Criminal Justice
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
Rutgers University – Newark
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John L. Esposito

Distinguished Senior Fellow
University Professor and Founding Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Georgetown University
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Marta Esquilin

Associate Dean
Honors Living-Learning Community
Assistant Professor, American Studies Program
Rutgers University – Newark
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Mohammad Fadel

Professor of Law
University of Toronto
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Dalia Fahmy

Associate Professor of Political Science
Long Island University

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John Farmer, Jr.

Rutgers University Professor, Justice Alan B. Handler Scholar and Special Counsel to the President
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Jonathan Feingold

Associate Professor
Boston University School of Law
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Brittany Friedman

Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Southern California
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Emmaia Gelman

Professor in Social Sciences, Director, Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Sarah Lawrence College
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Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Professor and Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Princeton University
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D. Asher Ghertner

Director, South Asian Studies Program
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
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Rachel Godsil

Distinguished Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Wendy Greene

Professor of Law
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
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Catherine M. Grosso

Professor of Law
Michigan State University – College of Law
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Anju Gupta

Professor of Law & Judge Chester J. Straub Scholar
Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic, Associate Dean for Clinical Education
Rutgers School of Law – Newark
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Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Farid Hafez

Visiting Professor of International Studies
Williams College
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Jonathan Hafetz

Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
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Haider Ala Hamoudi

Dean and Nippert Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
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Rebecca Hankins

Wendler Endowed Professor & MLIS, Certified Archivist
Texas A&M University

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Adil Haque

Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Nader Hashemi

Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

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Stacy Hawkins

Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School – Camden
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Norrinda Brown Hayat

Associate Professor of Law
Fordham Law School
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Tanya K. Hernández

Distinguished Senior Fellow
Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law School
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Alexander Hinton

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Global Affairs Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention
Rutgers University-Newark
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Margaret Hu

Professor of Law
William & Mary Law School
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Chaumtoli Huq

Associate Professor of Law
CUNY School of Law
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Nausheen Husain

Assistant Professor, Magazine, News and Digital Journalism
Syracuse University
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Amir Hussain

Chair and Professor of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
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Maryam Jamshidi

Assistant Professor of Law
Colorado Law School
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James R. Jones

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology
Rutgers University – Newark
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Toby Jones

Associate Professor of History
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
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Khyati Joshi

Professor, Peter Sammartino School of Education
Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Ivan Kalmar

Professor, Anthropology
University of Toronto
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Alexis Karteron

Professor of Clinical Law
New York University
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Leila Kawar

Associate Professor
University of Michigan
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Nazia Kazi

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Stockton University
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Heba M. Khalil

Assistant Professor of Sociology/ Criminology
Nebraska Wesleyan University
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Nancy A. Khalil

Assistant Professor of American Culture
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
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Sahar Mohamed Khamis

Associate Professor of Communication
University of Maryland
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Mahruq Khan

Teaching Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Hadi Khoshneviss

Assistant Professor
Rhodes College
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Deepa Kumar

Professor of Journalism and Media Studies
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
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Faisal Kutty

Associate Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing, and Skills
Southwestern Law School
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Clark B. Lombardi

Professor of Law
University of Washington School of Law
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Mojtaba Mahdavi

Professor, Faculty of Arts – Political Science
University of Alberta
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Karim Malak

Visiting Assistant Professor of Non-Western History
Wagner College
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Sylvia Chan-Malik

Associate Professor, Departments of American and Women’s and Gender Studies
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
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Wendell Marsh

Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies
Rutgers University-Newark
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Joseph Massad

Distinguished Senior Fellow
Professor
Columbia University
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Eric McDaniel

Associate Professor in Department of Government
The University of Texas at Austin
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Mayte Green-Mercado

Assistant Professor of History
Rutgers University-Newark
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Eid Mohamed

Assistant Professor of US-Arab Cultural Politics at the Comparative Literature Program
Qatar University
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Jesse Norris

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the Department of Sociocultural and Justice Sciences
State University of New York at Fredonia
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Udi Ofer

John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor and Lecturer of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University
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Ali A. Olomi

Assistant Professor in History, Middle East, Islamic, and Global South History
Loyola Marymount University
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Jasbir K. Puar

Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
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Aziz Rana

Professor and Provost’s Distinguished Fellow
Boston College Law School
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Timothy Raphael

Associate Professor in Arts, Culture and Media
Rutgers University – Newark
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Ebrahim Rasool

Distinguished Senior Fellow
South Africa Ambassador to the United States (2010-2015)
Founder of the World for All Foundation
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Victoria Ramenzoni

Assistant Professor
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
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Mitra Rastegar

Clinical Associate Professor
New York University
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Sherene Razack

Distinguished Professor in Department of Gender Studies
University of California at Los Angeles
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Alexander A. Reinert

Max Freund Professor of Litigation & Advocacy
Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law
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William I. Robinson

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and
Global and International Studies
University of California-Santa Barbara
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Wadie Said

Professor of Law
Colorado School of Law
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Seema Saifee

Assistant Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School
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Natsu Taylor Saito

Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law
Georgia State University
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Omid Safi

Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Duke University
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Zakia Salime

 Associate Professor,
Department of Sociology & Women’s and Gender Studies
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
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Nahed Samour

 Professor
Law and Society Institute Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Faiza Sayed

 Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Safe Harbor Project
Brooklyn Law School
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Salman Sayyid

 Professor of Social Theory & Decolonial Thought
University of Leeds
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Alex Dika Seggerman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Art History
Department of Arts, Culture and Media
Rutgers University – Newark
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Saher Selod, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Simmons University
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Sudha N. Setty

Dean, School of Law
City University of New York
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Tahseen Shah

Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
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Fatemeh Shams

Associate Professor of Persian Literature
University of Pennsylvania
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Lara Sheehi

Professor of Clinical Psychology
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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Stephen Sheehi

Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project
Asian and Middle East Studies Program
William & Mary
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Falguni A. Sheth

Professor, WGSS, Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Philosophy
Emory University
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Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui

Professor of Sociology, Criminology, and Psychology
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Sheridan College
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Shirin Sinnar

Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
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Saleema Snow

Professor of Law
University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
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Professor of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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Beth Stephens

Distinguished Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School
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Whitney Strub

Associate Professor
Rutgers University – Newark
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John Tehranian

Professor of Law
Southwestern Law School
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Audrey Trusche

Assistant Professor of South Asian History
Rutgers University-Newark
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Nükhet Varlık

Associate Professor, Department of History
Rutgers University – Newark
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Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
Penn State Law
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Ellen C. Yaroshefsky

Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics
Hofstra University School of Law
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Hajar Yazdiha

Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
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Jasmin Zine

Professor, Sociology and Muslim Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
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Adnan Zulfiqar

Associate Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School – Camden
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