Faculty Affiliates

Engy Abdelkader
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Mitchell Hamline Law School
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Atiya Aftab, Esq.
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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Zahra Ali
Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology and Anthropology
Rutgers University – Newark
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Sabrina Alimahomed
Associate 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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Abed Awad
Abed Awad is a partner with Awad & Khoury, LLP. Awad is an adjunct law professor at Rutgers Law School, Newark. Awad has native fluency in Arabic and is an international expert in Islamic law and the laws of Muslim countries.
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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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William C. Banks
Professor Emeritus
College of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor
Syracuse University School of Law
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Mark Bray
Assistant Professor of History
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences – New Brunswick
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Ali R. Chaudhary
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences – New Brunswick
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Jorge Contesse
Assistant Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Karam Dana
Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
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Karishma Desai
Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations
Graduate School of Education – New Brunswick
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Jon Dubin
Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Timothy Eatman
Inaugural Dean of the Honors Living Learning Community (HLLC) and Associate Professor, Department of Urban Education
Rutgers University – Newark
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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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John Farmer, Jr.
Rutgers University Professor, Justice Alan B. Handler Scholar and Special Counsel to the President
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Brittany Friedman
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences – New Brunswick
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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
Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Anju Gupta
Professor of Law & Judge Chester J. Straub Scholar
Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic
Rutgers School of Law – Newark
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Farid Hafez
Senior Researcher at University of Salzburg and Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s The Bridge Initiative


Adil Haque
Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Norrinda Brown Hayat
Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Justice Clinic
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Stacy Hawkins
Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School – Camden
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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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Amir Hussain
Chair and Professor of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
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Maryam Jamshidi
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Florida
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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
Assistant Professor of Law, Director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Nazia Kazi
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Stockton University
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Suzanne Kim
Professor of Law and Judge Denny Chin Scholar
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Deepa Kumar
President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Faculty Union
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
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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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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
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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Jesse Norris
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the Department of Sociocultural and Justice Sciences
State University of New York at Fredonia
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Timothy Raphael
Associate Professor in Arts, Culture and Media
Rutgers University – Newark
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Natsu Taylor Saito
Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law
Georgia State 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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Alex Dika Seggerman, Ph.D.
Assistant 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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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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Shirin Sinnar
Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
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SpearIt
Professor of Law
Texas Southern University
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Nükhet Varlık
Associate Professor, Department of History
Rutgers University – Newark
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Rose Cuison Villazor
Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Director of Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Jerome Williams
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Distinguished Professor and Prudential Chair in Business
Fellow – The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development
Rutgers University-Newark
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Adnan Zulfiqar
Assistant Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School – Camden
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