Affiliated Faculty
Vahid Abedini, Adjunct Professor, Department of Politics and International RelationsEmail: vabedini@fiu.edu
Areas of Specialization: Leadership and Elite Formation, Youth Development and Generational Dynamics, Social Media, Institutional and Personal Development, Dynamics within Muslim Communities, Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
Email: wbauman@fiu.edu
Office: DM 301A
Areas of Specialization: Religion and its Relationship with Science
Nima Baghdadi, Assistant Teaching ProfessorEmail: nima.baghdadi@fiu.edu
Caroline Faria, Assistant ProfessorEmail: cvfaria@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA 308
Phone: (305) 348-7555
Areas of Specialization: Feminist Political Geography, Gender and Nationalism, Qualitative Methods, Sudan and the Sudanese diaspora.
Zenel Garcia, Associate Professor, U.S. Army War CollegeEmail: zenel.garcia.civ@armywarcollege.edu
Areas of Specialization: Security, Geopolitics, Eurasian Politics, Indo-Pacific Politics, Borderland Politics
Email: heinenj@fiu.edu
Office: AHC5 381
Phone: (305) 348-3732
Areas of Specialization: Conservation Biology and Policy, Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology, Environment in Central Asia
Mohamad Homayounvash, Adjunct ProfessorEmail: Mohammad.Homayounvash1@fiu.edu
Areas of Specialization: Strategic Studies, Foreign Policy, IR of the Middle East and Contemporary Problems in International Relations
Mirsad Krijestorac, Adjunct Professor
Email: mkrij001@fiu.edu
Office: MMC, SIPA 213
Phone: (561) 305-3183
Areas of Specialization: Nationalism, identity, religion, conflict and peace studies, human rights. Author of “First Nationalism Then Identity: On Bosnian Muslim Nationalism and Its Bosniak Identity"
Aseefa Melesse, ProfessorEmail:melessea@fiu.edu
Office: AHC5 390
Phone: (305) 348-6518
Area of Specialization: Spatially distributed hydrologic modeling, ecohydrology, surface and groundwater interaction modeling, climate change impact studies, water-energy-carbon fluxes coupling and modeling, remote sensing hydrology, land cover change detection and scaling, Environment, the Middle East, and Africa.
Umer Rahman, Adjunct Professor Email: urahman@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA 213
Areas of Specialization: Modern South Asian history and historiography; security studies, postcolonial theory and trans-cultural studies.