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Senem Aslan

Professor of Politics

comparative politics, ethnic conflict, Middle East politics, Moroccan politics, nationalism, state-building, state-minority relations, symbolic politics, Turkish politics

Özgür Özkan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics

Civil-Military Relations, comparative politics, ethnic conflict, international relations, international security, Middle Eastern studies, National Security, NATO-Russia Relations, Political violence, security cooperation

Sarah B. Lynch

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Erin H. Nolan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Archives, Digital Art History, Global Art Histories, Histories of Photography, Islamic Art, Middle Eastern studies, migration, Modernism, Nineteenth Century, Photographic theory, portraiture, Survey Practices, trans-Mediterranean studies, Transnational Studies

Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

cultural and intellectual history, Early Middle Ages, ethnicity, history, history of identity, late antiquity, Late Latin, Latin language, Latin poetry, medieval studies, post-Roman world, premodern African history, premodern Iberia, premodern North Africa, race and ethnicity

Sylvia A. Federico

Professor of English

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

Anelise H. Shrout

Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies

Cliometrics, critical race theory, Data, death, Digital and Computational Studies, Digital Humanities, Disasters, Famine, Gender and Technology, gender studies, history, immigration, Ireland, Philanthropy

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

Jakub J. Kazecki

Associate Professor of German

20th century German literature and film, discourses of masculinity in German literature, film studies, German film after 1945, German studies, humor, images of German-Polish relationships in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy in literature film and visual arts, laughter and comedy's relation to violence, literature in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), media

B. Christine McDowell

Associate Professor of Theater

architectural drafting, costume design, costume history, figure drawing, historical clothing reconstruction, material culture studies, pattern drafting and draping, scenic painting, Set Design