Faculty
Zafar Adeel
Professor of Professional Practice, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Water security, international and sustainable development
Daniel Ahadi
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
Development of self and identity within the context of media, migration, globalization, and formation of transnational diasporas.
Yildiz Atasoy
Professor, Sociology
Development studies; gender relations; Islamic politics; Turkey, Middle East.
yatasoy@sfu.ca
Darren Byler
Assistant Professor, School for International Studies
Anthropology, Forced migration, Gender, Labour, Political economy, Religion and politics, Security studies and Science, Technology and Society Studies
darren_byler@sfu.ca
Hugo Cardoso
Department Chair & Professor, Department of Archaeology
Bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology; child health in medieval Portugal; the bioarchaeology of Muslim Portugal.
hcardoso@sfu.ca
Luke Clossey
Associate Professor, History
Comparative world history of religions; early modern China, Mexico, Mughals.
clossey@sfu.ca
Catherine D'Andrea
Professor, Faculty of Environment
Early agricultural peoples and the rise of complex societies in the Horn of Africa.
Aude-Claire Fourot
Associate Professor, Political Science
Immigration and integration; multiculturalism; Islam in Europe and Canada; religion and public sphere; urban policy.
afourot@sfu.ca
Adel Iskandar
Associate Professor, School of Communication
Social media, communications, modern Middle East, post colonialism.
adel_iskandar@sfu.ca
Thomas Kuehn
Associate Professor, History
Social and cultural history of the Ottoman empire and Turkey.
thomas_kuehn@sfu.ca
Laura Marks
Dena Wosk Professor in Art and Culture Studies
Cinema in the Arab world; Islamic genealogy of new media art.
lmarks@sfu.ca
Tamir Moustafa
Professor and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair, School for International Studies
Law and society; religion and politics; politics of the Middle East.
tmoustafa@sfu.ca
Paul Sedra
Associate Professor, History
Modern Middle East; education and the rise of the modern state; Egyptian cinema.
pdsedra@sfu.ca
Ken Seigneurie
Professor, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Modern Arabic, French and British fiction, literary theory and the history of humanist thought.
kseigneu@sfu.ca
Ozlem Sensoy
Professor, Faculty of Education
Constructions of Muslims in North America through education and media.
ozlem_sensoy@sfu.ca
Tammara Soma
Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management
food system planning, community-based research, waste management and the circular economy.
Eric Werker
William Saywell Professor, Beedie School of Business
How countries can build more thriving and inclusive private sectors and how external actors influence economic and political outcomes.
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
Associate Professor & Chair, World Languages and Literatures
Interconnections of literature and philosophy, emphasis on the semiotics of translation.
azadeh_yamini-hamedani@sfu.ca
Professors Emeritus
Robert Anderson
Professor Emeritus, Communication
International development and communication; South Asia, Indonesia.
robert_anderson@sfu.ca
Derryl MacLean
Associate Professor, History;
History of religion; Islamics; early modern South and Central Asia; Islam in the West.
maclean@sfu.ca
Lennart Berggren
Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
History of mathematical sciences in ancient Greece and medieval Islam.
berggen@sfu.ca
Habiba Zaman
Professor, Gender, Sexualituy and Women's Studies
Women and development; globalization and women's work; Bangladesh.
hzaman@sfu.ca
Parin Dossa
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Migration, gender and health; Muslim women; Iranians in the diaspora.
pdossa@sfu.ca
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