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, Adjunct 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.
Brian Fonseca, Vice Provost for Defense and National Security Research and Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public PolicyEmail: fonsecab@fiu.edu
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 Professor and Director, Jaffer Institute at MDCEmail: 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.
Ali Oskrouchi, Adjunct Professor Email: aoskrouc@fiu.edu
Areas of Specialization: International security, International relations of China and its implication for Middle Eastern countries.
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.
Hassan Vaezi, Adjunct Professor Email: hvaezi@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA II 525
Areas of Specialization: International relations