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Zafar Adeel
Professor of Professional Practice, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Water security, international and sustainable development
zafar_adeel@sfu.ca
Daniel Ahadi
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication
Development of self and identity within the context of media, migration, globalization, and formation of transnational diasporas.
daniel_ahadi@sfu.ca
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.
adandrea@sfu.ca
Merih Erol
Associate Professor, History
Religion and ethnicities in the Ottoman Empire; music and identity; forced migration; humanitarianism in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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
Nazanin Shahrokni
Associate Professor, International Studies
Feminist Geography, Gender Politics, Ethnographies of the State, Body Politics.
nazanin_shahrokni@sfu.ca
Spyros Sofos
Assistant Professor, Global Humanities
Turkish politics and society; contentious politics, nationalism, populism, and Islamism in the Middle East; Islam and Muslim communities, identities and politics in Europe and North America.
spyros_sofos@sfu.ca
Tammara Soma
Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management
food system planning, community-based research, waste management and the circular economy.
tammara_soma@sfu.ca
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.
ewerker@sfu.ca
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