Islamic Studies Today
2021
Islamic Studies Faculty Today
Today, Islamic studies at Harvard is represented across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Harvard Medical School. It is also interdisciplinary and global in nature, with faculty, visiting scholars, students, and programs that increasingly represent the scope, diversity, and complexity of Muslim societies and communities around the world.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Ali Asani
Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures

Melani Cammett
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs

Khaled El-Rouayheb
James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History and Director of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program

William Granara
Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment, Director of Modern Languages Programs, and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Justine Landau
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Gülru Necipoğlu
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art

Shady Nasser
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Richard Wolf
Professor of Music and South Asian Studies

Rosie Bsheer
Assistant Professor of History

Steven Caton
Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies

Luis Girón-Negrón
Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures

Cemal Kafadar
Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies

Annette Damayanti Lienau
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Afsaneh Najmabadi
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

David Roxburgh
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History

Malika Zeghal
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life
Harvard Divinity School

Mohsen Goudarzi
Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

Teren Sevea
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

Ousmane Kane
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society and Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard Kennedy School

Asim Khwaja
Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development

Tarek Masoud
Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations and Director of the Middle East Initiative
Harvard Business School

Kristin Fabbe
Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow

Reshmaan Hussam
Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow
Harvard Law School

Intisar Rabb
Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Director of the Program in Islamic Law

Kristen Stilt
Professor of Law, Director of the Animal Law and Policy Program, and Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Gareth Doherty
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Harvard Medical School

Salmaan Keshavjee
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health Delivery – Dubai