Archana, Kaku Assistant Professor Office: Chancellors 368, 757-221-4776,
Virtually by appointment
Links: [[abkaku, Email]]
Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00 am - 12:00 pm and by appointment.
Research Interests: Violence, Necropolitics, Feminist Politics, Queer Theory
Balasundaram , Sasikumar Adjunct Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Office: Tucker Hall 117
Office hrs: Tue/Thu 1.50-2.50 pm
Email: [[sbalasundaram]]
Bose, Diya Assistant Professor Email: [[dbose]]
Office: Boswell Hall 319
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00am-1:00pm and by appointment
Research Areas: Gender, Sexuality & Intersectionality, Criminal Legal Systems & Colonialism
Burchett, Patton Assistant Professor Email: [[peburchett]]
Interests: Religions of South Asia; Hindu devotion (Bhakti); Yoga; Tantra; Hindu-Muslim relations; Magic, Science, & Religion; Colonialism; "Spirituality" & Neoliberalism; Religion & Ecology; Contemplative Studies; Religious Nationalisms
Office: Wren 308
Cherkaoui, Driss Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literature Office: Washington Hall 233
Email: [[dxcher]]
Conan-Wu, Xin Associate Professor Office : Andrews Hall 209
Phone: (757) 221-2530
Email: : [[xwu]]
Areas of Specialization: East Asia art & exchanges, representations of nature, garden & landscape studies, environment & education, plant studies.
Personal Website: {{https://sites.google.com/view/xinconanwu}}
Cronin, Michael Associate Professor Office: Washington Hall 309
Email: [[mpcronin]]
Ferrao, R. Benedito Assistant Professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies Office: Tucker Hall 318
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 1:00-1:50 and by appointment. (Spring 2025)
Zoom Office Hours: {{https://cwm.zoom.us/my/noite}}
Email: [[rbferrao]]
Fischbach, Rahel Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Email: [[rfischbach]]
Interests: Qur'ān Hermeneutics, Interfaith Relations, Postcolonialism, Gender, Islamic Legal Cultures
Office: Wren 313
Glasser, Jonathan Associate Professor, Director Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Office: Washington Hall 122
Phone: 757-221-1058
Email: [[jglasser]]
Areas of specialization: Exchange, historical anthropology, music, poetics and performance, colonialism, textuality, culture theory; North Africa and the Middle East
Guerrero, Laura P. Assistant Professor Office: James Blair 120
Email: [[lpguerrero]]
Dept. office phone: 757-221-2716
Hafez, Farid Assistant Teaching Professor Office: Chancellors 237
Links : [[fhafez, Email]]
Office Hours:
Research Interests: far-right populism, Islamophobia, international relations, and coloniality
Han, Eric Associate Professor, History Office: Blair 303
Email: [[echan]]
Regional Areas of Research: East and South Asia
Thematic Areas of Research: Comparative and Transnational, Diaspora and Migration, Pacific World/Pacific Rim, Race and Ethnicity
Hershey, Zachary Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of History Office: Blair 351
Email: [[zshershey]]
Hill, Michael Associate Professor Office: Washington Hall 316
Email: [[mghill]]
Hui, Calvin Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies Office: Washington Hall 231
Email: [[kchui]]
Jafari, Peyman Assistant Professor Office: Blair 355
Email: [[pjafari]]
Regional Areas of Research: Modern Middle East and Indonesia
Thematic Areas of Research: Labor, Environmental and Infrastructural History, Energy and Natural Resources (oil), Revolutions, Empires and Imperialism, Commodity Frontiers and Capitalism.
Karakaya-Stump, Ayfer Associate Professor, History Office: Blair 310
Email: [[akstump]]
Regional Areas of Research: Middle East, especially Anatolia and the Balkans under Ottoman Rule
Thematic Areas of Research: Religion, Subalternity, Cultural and Social, Borders and Borderlands, Women, Gender and Sexuality, Historiography and Historical Memory
Katz, Max Associate Professor (Ethnomusicology) Office: Music Arts Center, room 202
Phone: (757) 221-1070
Email: [[mgkatz]]
Kitamura, Aiko Teaching Professor of Japanese Office: Washington Hall 318
Phone: (757) 221-1069
Email: [[akitamura]]
Kitamura, Hiroshi Associate Professor - History Office: Blair 340
Phone: 757-221-3740
Email: [[hxkita]]
Regional Areas of Research: East and South Asia, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Comparative and Transnational, International Relations, Pacific World/Pacific Rim, Popular Culture and Media
Li, Jing Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese Studies Office: Washington Hall 315D
Email: [[jli69]]
Lin, Chunying Chinese Language House Advisor, Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese Studies Office: Washington Hall 316
Phone: (757) 221-2416
Email: [[clin07]]
McLaughlin, Mark Visiting Assistant Professor Email: [[mjmclaughlin]]
Office: Wren 312
Interests: South Asian Religions, History and Philosophy of Meditation and Yoga, Sacred Space in South Asia, Tomb and Relic Traditions, Sustainability and Religion
Mullen, Rani Associate Professor Office: Chancellors 123, 757-221-3033
Links: [[rdmull, Email]] and {{http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/rdmull, Webpage}}
Office Hours: On leave for AY 2024-2025
Research Interests: Comparative Politics/South Asia
Ozdemir, Yonca Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor Office: Chancellors 238
Links: [[yozdemir, Email]]
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, or by appointment.
Research Interests: neoliberalism, political economy of Turkey, Turkish foreign policy, Cyprus problem, foreign aid, populism in Turkey, populism in Israel, political economy of Latin America, financial crises, development policy
Pamment, Claire Associate Professor of World Theatre Office: Boswell 320
Email: [[clpamment]]
Phone: 757-221-2670
Office Hours: Spring '24:
Tuesday 12pm (Boswell 321), Wednesday 12pm (PBK 212) or by appointment
Rasmussen, Anne Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology, Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Director, W&M Middle Eastern Music Ensemble:
Office: Music Arts Center, room 203
Phone: 757-784-4341 (mobile)
Email: [[akrasm]]
Website: {{https://sites.google.com/email.wm.edu/annekrasmussen/home}}
Sasaki, Tomoyuki Associate Professor of Japanese Studies Office: Washington Hall 226
Phone: (757) 221-1247
Email: [[tsasaki]]
Sheehi, Stephen Sultan Qaboos bin Said Chair of Middle East Studies, Professor of Arabic Studies (on leave for 2023-24) Email: [[spsheehi]]
Sheikh, Faraz Assistant Professor Email: [[fmsheikh]]
Interests: Comparative Religious Ethics; Ethical Formation; Muslim Ethics; Discourse and Subjectivity
Office: Wren 305
Shimoura, Shinji Japanese Language House Advisor, Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese Studies Office: Washington Hall 215
Email: [[sshimoura]]
Shrestha, Ranjan Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Fields: Development, Health, Demography
Email: [[rshrestha]]
Office: Chancellors 461
Sohoni, Deenesh Professor of Sociology, Director of Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies Email: [[dssoho]]
Office: Boswell Hall 212
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm, Wednesdays 1:30pm - 3:00pm and by appointment
Research Areas: Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Asian American Studies, Law and Citizenship
Stokes, Corinne Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies Office: Washington Hall 222
Email: [[castokes]]
Su, Qian Instructor of Chinese Office: Washington Hall 316
Email: [[qsu]]
Topal, Semiha Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Vose, Kevin Associate Professor, Religious Studies Email: [[kavose]]
Office: Wren 306
Wilcox, Emily Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Email: [[eewilcox]]
Wright, Andrea Associate Professor Office: Washington Hall Room 120
Appointments and office hours may be booked online: {{ https://andreawright.youcanbook.me/}}
(On Leave AY 2024-2025)
Email: [[w|agwright]]
Research Interests: : Cultural anthropology, anthro-history, energy production, labor, migration, security, kinship, rights, South Asia, the Arabian Peninsula
Zaki, Mona Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies Office: Washington Hall 223
Email: [[mzaki]]
Zandi-Sayek, Sibel Associate Professor of Art History Office: Andrews Hall 207A
Phone: (757) 221-2527
Email: [[ssayek]]
Areas of Specialization : Modern architecture and urbanism; geography, cultural landscape studies, and planning history; the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East.
Zutshi, Chitralekha James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History Office: Blair 306
Email: [[cxzuts]]
Regional Areas of Research: South Asia and the Indian Ocean
Thematic Areas of Research: Islam, Imperialism and Colonialism, Historiography and Historical Memory, Nationalism and National Identity, British Empire, and Cultural/Intellectual History
