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](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2019/03/susannadrake-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Susanna Drake
- Associate Professor of Religious Studies
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6544
![James W. Laine](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2019/03/jameslaine-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- James W. Laine
- Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6789
![Andrew Latham](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2018/01/andrewlatham-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Andrew Latham
- Professor of Political Science
- International relations; regional conflict and security; foreign policy; political thought
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6549
![David Chioni Moore](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2018/01/davidmoore-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- 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.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6242
![J. Andrew Overman](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2018/01/andyoverman-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- J. Andrew Overman
- Harry M. Drake Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Fine Arts
- Archaeology, Ancient Middle East, Ancient Religions
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6375
![Khaldoun Samman](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2018/01/khaldounsamman-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- 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
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6845
![Beth Severy-Hoven](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2018/01/bethseveryhoven-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Beth Severy-Hoven
- Professor and Chair of Classics
- Roman History, Gender & Sexuality in Ancient Italy, Roman Archaeology
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6721
![Joëlle Vitiello](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2018/01/joellevitiello-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- 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.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6412
![Serdar Yalcin](https://www.macalester.edu/mesic/wp-content/uploads/sites/493/2019/04/Yalcin_Serdar600-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- 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.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6924