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Faculty & Staff

The Coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization concentration is J. Andrew Overman.

These faculty teach courses in the Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization concentration.

Susanna Drake
James W. Laine
Andrew Latham
  • Andrew Latham
  • Professor of Political Science
  • International relations; regional conflict and security; foreign policy; political thought
  • 651-696-6549
David Chioni Moore
  • David Chioni Moore
  • Associate Professor, International Studies and English
  • Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.
  • 651-696-6242
J. Andrew Overman
Khaldoun Samman
  • Khaldoun Samman
  • Professor of Sociology
  • Focuses on world historical-comparative and urban sociology, globalization, sociology of religion, and modes of identities in the Middle East
  • 651-696-6845
Beth Severy-Hoven
Joëlle Vitiello
  • Joëlle Vitiello
  • Professor, French and Francophone Studies
  • Focuses on 20th-21st-century French and francophone literature and culture; Haitian literature and culture; French and Francophone Cinema; Postcolonial identities; Immigration; Violence in France and the francophone world.
  • 651-696-6412
Serdar Yalcin
  • Serdar Yalcin
  • Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
  • His research interests include art and identity, gender and representation, artistic interconnections in the ancient world, and western antiquarianism and the formation of the European and American antiquities collections.
  • 651-696-6924