Faculty
Jessie Abouarab, Assistant Professor, Center for Women and Gender StudiesEmail: jabouara@fiu.edu
Office: DM 216B
Areas of Specialization: Foreign policy and security studies in the Middle East, specializing in women’s and gender studies.
Saiyad Ahmad, Prophet Muhammad Visiting Professor of Shi'a Islam Studies, Jaffer Center for Muslim World Studies and Department of Religious Studies
Email:sahmad@fiu.edu
Office:SIPA II 526
Areas of Specialization:Arabic and Islamic Studies, Islamic Political Thought, Shi'a Islam.
Iqbal Akhtar, Associate Professor, Department of Religious StudiesEmail: iakhtar@fiu.edu
Office: DM 359B
Areas of Specialization: Advanced Interpretation of the Quran, Voice of the Prophet, Islamic Faith and Society, Women in Islam, and Islamic Mysticism (Sufism).
Akkaya Aslihan, Associate Teaching Professor, Dept of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Daniel Alvarez, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Religious StudiesEmail: alvarezd@fiu.edu
Office: DM 304A
Areas of Specialization: Protestant Theology, Reformation, Evangelicalism, World Religions
Email: Cyra.Choudhury@fiu.edu
Phone: (305) 348-1153
Areas of Specialization: Postcolonial Theory, Critical Theory, International Law, and Law in Islamic Societies
Shlomi Dinar, Dean, Green School of Intl. and Public AffairsEmail: Shlomi.Dinar@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA II 538
Phone: (305) 348-6958
Areas of Specialization: International Environmental Politics, Non-traditional Security Studies, Conflict Resolution and International Negotiation.
Mohamed K. Ghumrawi, Assistant Director and Adjunct ProfessorEmail: mghumraw@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA II 529
Areas of Specialization: Palestinian Diaspora, Palestinian-Israeli relations, Middle East politics, IR of the Middle East, foreign policy, security studies, state formation and development, conflict resolution.
Erik Larson, Associate Professor, Department of Religious StudiesEmail: larsone@fiu.edu
Office: DM303
Areas of Specialization: New Testament, Christian Origins, Ancient Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls, the Middle East, Interfaith Dialogue
Qing Lai, Associate Professor, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies Email: qlai@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA 313
Areas of Specialization: Chinese Muslim society, social demography, social stratification, sociology of development
T.J. Liguori, Khalid & Diana Mirza Postdoctoral Fellow
Eric Lob, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Int'l RelationsEmail: elob@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA 401
Areas of Specialization: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Middle East and Development Studies with a focus on Iran, Lebanon, and Syria.
Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Founding Director & Associate ProfessorEmail: mesbahim@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA 435
Phone: (305) 348-1857
Areas of Specialization: Islam and Politics, National Security and Strategic Studies, Soviet/Russian Foreign Policy, International Relations of Central Asia.
Tudor Parfitt, Distinguished Professor, Department of Religious StudiesEmail: tparfitt@fiu.edu
Office: DM 369
Areas of Specialization: The periphery of the Jewish world, Judaising movements, Muslim-Jewish Relations, the Jews of the Yemen, Jews of the Muslim world, the Sephardi World, Conversos, Jews in Africa and the Americas.
Terrence Peterson, Assistant Professor, Department of HistoryEmail: tpeterso@fiu.edu
Office: DM 390
Areas of Specialization: North Africa, Islam in Europe
Seema Pissaris, Clinical Professor, Department of International BusinessEmail: spissari@fiu.edu
Office: Mango 421
Phone: (305) 348-3280
Areas of Specialization: Corporate Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Executive Compensation, Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management of Non-Profit Organizations.
Naisy Sarduy, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Politics and Int'l RelationsEmail: nsarduy@fiu.edu
Office: MMC, SIPA 402
Areas of Specialization: Middle East Politics, International Relations of the Middle East, Contemporary Problems in International Relations
Benjamin Smith, Associate Professor, Global and Sociocultural StudiesEmail: Benjamin.Smith@fiu.edu
Office: SIPA 305
Phone: (305) 348-2074
Areas of Specialization: Landscape, Cultural Economy, Middle East, Urban Geography.
Oren Stier, Professor, Department of Religious Studies