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Affiliated Faculty

* = Persian Studies Committee

Affiliated Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
[table width =”100%” style =”table-striped” responsive =”true”] [table_body] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Shahla Adel, Ph.D.*
Teaching Associate Professor in Persian, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Interests: Persian language, culture, and cinema

[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Carl Ernst, Ph.D.*
(Chair, Persian Studies Committee)
Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Interests: Persian literature, Sufism, Islamic studies[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Michael Figueroa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Interests: Persian music and Middle Eastern music[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Jennifer Gates-Foster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics
Interests: Classical Archaeology, Ancient Iranian history[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Emma Jane Flatt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
Interests: Persian sources for medieval Indian history[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Charles Kurzman, Ph.D.*
Professor, Department of Sociology
Interests: Islamic political thought, social movements, the Iranian revolution[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Eren Tasar, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
Interests: Central Asian history[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Afroz Taj, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Interests: Urdu language and literature, Persianate culture of South Asia[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Claudia Yaghoobi, Ph.D.*
Roshan Institute Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Director of UNC Persian Studies
Interests: Persian language, Persian and Middle Eastern literature, gender studies

 

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[row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Rustin Zarkar, Ph.D.
Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian
Interests: Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and their vernacular languages

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[table_row] [/row_column] [row_column][/row_column] [row_column]Waleed Ziad, Ph.D.
Dr Ali Jarrahi Fellow in Persian Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Interests: Islamic studies, Iranian / Persianate world, Sufism from the early modern to contemporary periods, Iranian Numismatics

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Affiliated Faculty at Duke University

[table width =”100%” style =”table-striped” responsive =”true”] [table_body] [table_row] [row_column]Omid Safi[/row_column] [row_column]Omid Safi, Ph.D.
Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Interests: Islamic Studies, Persian Sufism[/row_column] [/table_row] [table_row] [row_column]Mohsen Kadivar[/row_column] [row_column]Mohsen Kadivar, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Duke University
Interests: Islamic Philosophy and Theology[/row_column] [/table_row] [/table_body] [/table]