Faculty Affiliates

Engy Abdelkader
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Mitchell Hamline Law School
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Zain Abdullah
Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts
Temple University
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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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Aziza Ahmed
Professor of Law
University of California, Irvine School of Law
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Khalil Al-Anani
Associate Professor of Political Science
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

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
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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Mason Ameri
Associate Professor of Professional Practice
Department of Management and Global Business
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
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Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Rutgers University – Newark
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Mohamed ‘Arafa
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
Assistant Professor of Journalism
Rutgers University – Newark
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Asli Ü. Bâli
Professor of Law Faculty
Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
University of California, Los Angeles
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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
Wayne State University School of Law
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Bidisha Biswas
Professor of Political Science
Western Washington University
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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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Cyra A. Choudhury
Professor of Law
Florida International University
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Juan Cole
Professor of History
University of Michigan
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Jorge Contesse
Assistant 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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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 College of the Law, San Francisco
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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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Taleed El-Sabawi
Assistant Professor of Law
Florida International 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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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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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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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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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
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
Senior Researcher at University of Salzburg and Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s The Bridge Initiative
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Jonathan Hafetz
Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
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Haider Ala Hamoudi
Professor of Law & Vice Dean University of Pittsburg School of Law
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Rebecca Hankins
Wendler Endowed Professor & MLIS, Certified Archivist
Texas A&M University

Adil Haque
Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar
Rutgers Law School – Newark
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Nader Hashemi
Associate Professor; Director, Middle East Center
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
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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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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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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
University of Florida
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Darin Johnson
Associate Professor
Howard University School of Law
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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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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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Hadi Khoshneviss
Assistant Professor
Rhodes College
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Deepa Kumar
President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Faculty Union
Associate Professor, 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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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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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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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
Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
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Timothy Raphael
Associate Professor in Arts, Culture and Media
Rutgers University – Newark
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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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Wadie Said
Professor of Law
University of South Carolina School of Law
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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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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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Sudha N. Setty
Dean, School of Law
Western New England University
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Tahseen Shah
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
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Fatemeh Shams
Assistant Professor of Persian Literature
University of Pennsylvania
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Lara Sheehi
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology
The George Washington 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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Falguni A. Sheth
Associate Professor, WGSS, Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Philosophy
Emory University
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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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SpearIt
Professor of Law
Texas Southern University
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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
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Penn State Law
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Jasmin Zine
Professor, Sociology and Muslim Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
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