Syria

Chris Abbyad

Nursing

Chris Abbyad’s research focuses on Black/White racism in healthcare, racism experienced by pregnant Black women, smoking cessation, water pipe use by university students, and smoking during pregnancy. Abbyad also has an interest in cultural awareness and competency having taught nursing in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

Timothy Beach

Geography and the Environment, Environmental Science Institute, Latin American Studies

Tim Beach's research interests include geoarchaeology, soils, climate change, wetlands, climate history, geomorphology, and paleoenvironments of the Maya world and Mediterranean. He has conducted field research in the Corn Belt of the U.S., Belize, Colombia, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Syria, and Turkey.

Andrew Butters

Journalism and Media

Andrew Butters is a journalist who has written extensively about the Middle East.

Dale Correa

History, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies

Dale Correa specializes in Islamic legal theory, theology, philosophy, and Qur'anic studies, with an interest in the intellectual tradition of the eastern regions of the Islamicate empire.

Sheryl Luzzader-Beach

Geography and the Environment

Sheryl Luzzader-Beach specializes in physical geography, hydrology and geomorphology, water chemistry, geoarchaeology, geostatistics, and gender, science and human rights.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Mohammad A. Mohammad

Middle Eastern Studies

Mohammad Mohammad's research and teaching focus on linguistics and the Arabic language.

Stephennie Mulder

Middle Eastern Studies, Art and Art History

Stephennie Mulder is a specialist in Islamic art, architectural history, and archaeology. Her research interests include the art and architecture of Shi’ism, the intersections between art, spatiality, and sectarian relationships in Islam, anthropological theories of art, material culture studies, theories of ornament and mimesis, and place and landscape studies.

Aaron O'Connell

History

Aaron O'Connell's scholarly interests span three inter-related fields: 20th-century military history, U.S. foreign affairs, and the military's effects on contemporary U.S. culture and society. He teaches courses in military history, U.S. foreign policy, terrorism and insurgencies, and the U.S.' role in the world.

Na'ama Pat-El

Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics

Na'ama Pat-El is a linguist primarily working with classical Semitic languages. Her interests are historical linguistics, and language change, especially syntax, language contact, and dialectology.

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