Affiliated Faculty
Tamanna Ashraf, Adjunct Lecturer, Politics and International Relations
Bill B. Barber IV, Adjunct Lecturer, Politics and International Relations
Whitney Bauman, Assistant Professor
Email: wbauman@fiu.edu
Office: DM 301A
Areas of Specialization: Religion and its Relationship with Science
Caroline Faria, Assistant Professor
Email: 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, Assistant Professor
Email: zgarc001@fiu.edu
Areas of Specialization: Security, Geopolitics, Eurasian Politics, Indo-Pacific Politics, Borderland Politics.
Joel Heinen, Professor
Email: heinenj@fiu.edu
Office: ECS 345
Phone: (305) 348-3732
Areas of Specialization: Conservation Biology and Policy, Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology, Environment in Central Asia
Mohamad Homayounvash, Instructor
Email: Mohammad.Homayounvash1@fiu.edu
Interests: Strategic Studies, Foreign Policy, IR of the Middle East and Contemporary Problems in International Relations
Assefa Melesse, Associate Professor
Email: melessea@fiu.edu
Office: ECS 339
Phone: (305) 348-6518
Areas 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.
Asher Milbauer, Professor
Email:Asher.Milbauer@fiu.edu
Office: DM 460
Phone: (305) 348-2259
Area of Specialization: 20th Century English and American Literature; Exile Literature; Eastern European Literature; Jewish Literature (both in Yiddish and Hebrew); Literature and Society; Literature of the Holocaust.
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Associate Professor
E-mail: miralles@fiu.edu
Office: BBC, ACI-331
Phone: (305) 348-3653
Saeed Moshvegheganeh, Affiliated Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellow STEM
Email: saeed.moshfeghyeganeh@fiu.edu Areas of Specialization: Effect of culture on identity formation and intersection of multiple identities (i.e., race, gender, spirituality) on pursuing physics, Muslim women in STEM fields, understanding cultural factors facilitating or impeding minorized groups from pursuing physics and using this knowledge to improve diversity in the field of physics.
Umer Rahman, Instructor
Email: urahman@fiu.edu
Office: PC 100
Areas of Specialization: Modern South Asian history and historiography; security studies, postcolonial theory and trans-cultural studies.
