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Faculty & Deans
FACULTY
Georgetown University faculty are a talented and diverse group of scholars dedicated to the highest levels of research, teaching, and service. The following is a list of the faculty at GU-Q during the 2018-2019 academic year.
FACULTY BY SPECIALIZATION:
Anthropology.................................... 01 Economics ....................................... 08 Government, Political Science, and International Relations ................ 10 History ............................................ 09 Islamic Studies................................. 03 Languages and Literature.................. 12 Philosophy ....................................... 02 Theology.......................................... 02
ANTHROPOLOGY
ROGAIA ABUSHARAF Professor Ph.D., University of Connecticut Research Focus: Culture and politics; anthropology of gender; human rights, migration and diaspora issues in Sudan, the Gulf, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom
ECONOMICS
ALEXIS ANTONIADES Associate Professor; Curricular Chair of International Economics Ph.D., Columbia University Research Focus: International macroeconomics; global markets; big data; and the economies of the Gulf countries
JOSE ASTURIAS Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota Research Focus: International trade and macroeconomics, focused on growth
MONGOLJIN BATSAIKHAN Assistant Professor Ph.D., Brown University Research Focus: Development and experimental economics, with a focus on industrial organization; entrepreneurship; small and medium-size enterprises; and social capital
ZHAOYANG HOU Assistant Professor Ph.D., George Washington University Research Focus: Development economics; applied econometrics; and international economics, with a focus on microeconomic development issues in China
DENNIS MCCORNAC Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D., City University of New York Research Focus: Migrant workers in Japan; and education in developing countries
SULAGNA MOOKERJEE Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Rochester Research Focus: Applied microeconomics; and development economics
JACK ROSS BACH Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota Research Focus: International trade and growth, with a focus on how linkages across firms and countries shape the global economy
DANIEL WESTBROOK Associate Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University Research Focus: Applied microeconometrics; and economic development in Vietnam
SONIA ALONSO SAENZ DE OGER Associate Professor Ph.D., Carlos III-Juan March Institute of Social Sciences Research Focus: Federalism and devolution; party competition in Western democracies; the democratic deficit in the European Union; electoral behavior in Western Europe; and democratization and ethnic conflict in Western democracies UDAY CHANDRA Assistant Professor Ph.D., Yale University Research Focus: Critical agrarian studies; political anthropology; postcolonial theory; South Asian studies, focused in state-society relations; power and resistance; political violence; agrarian change; rural-urban migration; popular religion; and the philosophy of the social sciences
AMANDA GARRETT Assistant Professor Ph.D., Harvard University Research Focus: Comparative and international politics, with a focus on the implications of migration and ethnic diversity in advanced democracies
MEHRAN KAMRAVA Professor; Director, Center for International and Regional Studies Ph.D., University of Cambridge Research Focus: Comparative politics; political development; and Middle Eastern politics
ANATOL LIEVEN Professor Ph.D., University of Cambridge Research Focus: Islamist terrorism and insurgency; contemporary warfare; the United States and Western strategy; and the countries of the former Soviet Union and the greater Middle East, especially Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran
RORY MILLER Professor; Director of the Certificate in Media and Politics Ph.D., King’s College London Research Focus: External intervention in the contemporary Middle East; the politics of small states in the international system; comparative peace processes; political and economic development of regional groupings; Ireland and the Middle East; private sector development and conflict resolution; and British Middle East policy
GERD NONNEMAN Professor; Curricular Chair of International Politics Ph.D., University of Exeter Research Focus: Politics and international relations of the Middle East; Muslim communities in Europe; and comparative political and economic liberalization
HARRY VERHOEVEN Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Oxford Research Focus: Elite politics; and ideology and international relations, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East
CLYDE WILCOX Professor, Dept. of Government Ph.D., Ohio State University Research Focus: American comparative politics; religion and politics; gender politics; interest groups; public opinion and electoral behavior; campaign finance; and science fiction and politics
MOHAMED ZAYANI Professor; Director of the Certificate in Arab Regional Studies Ph.D., Indiana University Research Focus: Cultural studies; and communication studies and political science, with a particular focus on the evolving dynamics of global communication in the Middle East and the Arab World
HISTORY
GABOR AGOSTON Associate Professor, Dept. of History Ph.D., Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Focus: Early modern Ottoman history; Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry and frontiers; and early modern military history
ABDULLAH AL-ARIAN Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgetown University Research Focus: Islamic social movements; modern Egypt; Muslims in the United States; and the history of United States policy towards the Middle East
EDWARD KOLLA Associate Professor Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Research Focus: European international relations; and political, cultural and intellectual history, with a focus on the history of international law
PHOEBE MUSANDU Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles Research Focus: African history; African historical methodology; and mass media and women’s history
MAX OIDTMANN Assistant Professor Ph.D., Harvard University Research Focus: Chinese history, focused on late imperial China (1368-1912) and inner Asia (Islamic Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria)
MOHAMED REZA PIRBHAI Associate Professor; Faculty Chair Ph.D., University of Toronto Research Focus: South Asian and world history, focused on Islamic thought and institutions in modern South Asia; colonialism; nationalism; and gender
JAMES REARDON-ANDERSON Professor Ph.D., Columbia University Research Focus: Modern Chinese history
AMIRA SONBOL Professor; Curricular Chair of International History Ph.D., Georgetown University Research Focus: Modern Egypt; and Islamic history and law, with a focus on women, gender, and Islam
LANGUAGES & LITERATURE
ARABIC
ABBAS AL TONSI Senior Lecturer; Director of the Arabic Program M.A., American University in Cairo Research Focus: Arabic language instruction and pedagogy; literary criticism; and Arabic media and politics
KARINE WALTHER Associate Professor; Director of the Certificate in American Studies Ph.D., Columbia University Research Focus: U.S. history; and the U.S. in the world, with a focus on the Middle East MAHMOUD AL-ASHIRI Associate Professor Ph.D., Fayoum University (Cairo University) Research Focus: Arabic language instruction and pedagogy, literary criticism, and Arabic poetry
ISLAMIC STUDIES
AHMAD DALLAL Dean Ph.D., Columbia University Research Focus: Cultural traditions of the Arab world; Islamic disciplines of learning in medieval and early modern Islamic societies; the development of Islamic sciences; Islamic medieval thought; Islamic revivalism and intellectual movements; and Islamic law
AYMAN SHABANA Associate Research Professor Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles Research Focus: Islamic legal and intellectual history; Islamic law and ethics; human rights; and bioethics
SOHAIRA SIDDIQUI Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara Research Focus: Classical Islamic legal theory (usul ul-fiqh); classical Islamic political thought; the development and intersection of legal thought and political thought from the 9th to 11th centuries; and secularism and modernity in relation to Islamic law and Muslims in the West ABDUL RAHMAN CHAMSEDDINE Instructor M.A., American University of Beirut Research Focus: Arabic terminology of early Islam, with a focus on Quranic terms that describe religious identities and other social groupings
AMIRA EL ZEIN Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgetown University Research Focus: Arabic literature (classical and contemporary); and Sufism in medieval and contemporary Islam
HANY FAZZA Instructor M.A., American University of Cairo Research Focus: Teaching Arabic heritage students; “CALL” (Computer Assisted Language Learning); and Arabic linguistics and literature
OMAR KHALIFAH Assistant Professor Ph.D., Columbia University Research Focus: Arabic literature (modern); world literature; textual and visual representations of memory; and cinema and nationalism in the Arab world
YEHIA MOHAMED Associate Professor Ph.D., Cairo University Research Focus: Applied linguistics (language acquisition and error analysis); phonology; and language changes and sociolinguistics
HANA ZABARAH Assistant Professor Ph.D., Georgetown University Research Focus: Arabic language, literature, and linguistics FRENCH
PATRICK MEADOWS Associate Professor Ph.D., Princeton University Research Focus: French/Francophone literature and its relationship with philosophy and symbolism
PHILOSOPHY
JEREMY KOONS Associate Professor Ph.D., Georgetown University Research Focus: Ethics (theoretical and applied); social and political philosophy; epistemology; philosophy of mind and language; metaphysics; and philosophy of religion
ENGLISH
ADILE ALMOND Visiting Instructor Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst Research Focus: Austrian literature; comparative modernisms; global South; Ottoman-Turkish literature; and world literature
IAN ALMOND Professor Ph.D., University of Edinburgh Research Focus: Comparative world literature, with a tri-continental emphasis on Mexico, Bengal, and Turkey KARL WIDERQUIST Associate Professor Ph.D., Oxford University Ph.D., City University of New York Research Focus: Distributive justice or the ethics of “who has what”
THEOLOGY
AKINTUNDE AKINADE Professor; Curricular Chair of Culture and Politics Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary Research Focus: African religions; religion and immigration; intercultural studies; comparative religions; Christian thought; and Christian-Muslim relations
FIRAT ORUC Assistant Professor Ph.D., Duke University Research Focus: Postcolonial global literatures; cultural and literary studies of the Middle East; translation studies; and transnational cinema PATRICK LAUDE Professor Ph.D., Indiana University Research Focus: Comparative mysticism; poetry and mysticism; and Western representations and interpretations of Asian spiritual and wisdom traditions
ACADEMIC DEANS
Deans are responsible for curricular oversight, the overall research and learning environment, and student advising. They provide support to faculty members and staff, ensure cohesive and collaborative teaching and learning across a variety of platforms and disciplines, and holistically mentor and care for GU-Q students’ education. They also occasionally offer courses in their fields of specialization.
AHMAD DALLAL Dean Ph.D., Columbia University Research Focus: Cultural traditions of the Arab world; Islamic disciplines of learning in medieval and early modern Islamic societies; the development of Islamic sciences; Islamic medieval thought; Islamic revivalism and intellectual movements; and Islamic law
KAI HENRIK-BARTH Senior Assistant Dean for Research Support Ph.D., University of Minnesota Research Focus: Nuclear proliferation and international security; nuclear energy; energy policy; climate change; and science and technology in international affairs
BRENDAN HILL Senior Associate Dean for Students Ph.D., Georgetown University Research Focus: Church and legal history, focusing specifically on the criminalization of sin and the creation of a godly society at the dawn of the modern era in England
HEATHER KERST Senior Assistant Dean for Advising and Curriculum M.A., Georgetown University Research Focus: Cultural arts and social change in modern Latin America JAMES MACGREGOR Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ph.D., University of Cincinnati Research Focus: Books of hours and prayer to saints in late medieval England
JULIEN MOUTTE Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising MBA, Institut Supérieur du Commerce de Paris Research Focus: Higher education management
ANNE NEBEL Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Ph.D., Lancaster University Research Focus: Critical discourse analysis; stylistics; writing pedagogies; and writing across the disciplines
GEHAN SAMARAH Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising MBA, American University in Cairo Research Focus: Higher education management; social change in the Middle East; and student success
CHRISTINE SCHIWIETZ Assistant Dean for Curricular and Academic Advising Ph.D., American University Research Focus: New technologies and society; gender roles; and peace, security, and international development
