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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: W: 12:00pm-1:30pm and R: 11:00am - 12:00pm
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
Email: [[dxcher]]
Conan-Wu, Xin
Associate Professor
Office : Andrews Hall 209 (on leave 2024-2025)
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: On leave (Fall 2025 & Spring 2026)
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, 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: Wednesday, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Research Interests: far-right populism, Islamophobia, international relations, and coloniality
Han, Eric
Associate Professor, History, Director of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
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 345
Email: [[zshershey]]
Hill, Michael
Associate Professor
Office: Washington Hall 216
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.
Kaku, Archana
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
Karakaya-Stump, Ayfer
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 310
Email: [[akstump]]
Regional Areas of Research: Pre-modern Middle East, with a focus on Anatolia and the Balkans under Ottoman rule
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural and social history; religion; constructions of heresy and orthodoxy; sectarianism; Sufism; Alevi-Bektashi communities; Ottoman-Safavid relations; 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
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 234, 757-221-3033
Links: [[rdmull, Email]] and {{http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/rdmull, Webpage}}
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 pm-4:30 pm and by appointment
Research Interests: Comparative Politics/South Asia
Ozdemir, Yonca
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor
Office: Chancellors 416
Links: [[yozdemir, Email]]
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 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: Phi Beta Kappa Hall 212
Email: [[clpamment]]
Phone: 757-221-2670
Office Hours: Mondays 11:00 am-1:00 pm, 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: T/R 11:00am to 12:00pm, W 1:30pm-3:30pm, 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
Office: Washington Hall 213
Email: [[eewilcox]]
Wright, Andrea
Associate Professor
Office: Washington Hall Room 120
Appointments and office hours may be booked online: {{ https://andreawright.youcanbook.me/}}
Email: [[w|agwright]]
Research Interests: : Anthro-history, cultural anthropology, citizenship, energy production, governance, kinship, labor, migration, 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
Class of 1962 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
