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Lois Beck
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology in Arts and Sciences
Expertise: Qashqa'i nomadic pastoralists, Iran, Islam, political anthropology, history, tribe-state relations, gender, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5290
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John R. Bowen
Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology
Bowen's research explores broad social transformations now taking place in the world-wide Muslim community, including special emphasis on Muslim life in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. His research focuses on the role of cultural forms (religious practices, aesthetic genres, legal discourse) ...
Expertise: religion and ritual, Islam, social theory, kinship and social organization, historical studies, culture and political change, Sumatra, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5680
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jbowen@artsci.wustl.edu
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Robert L. Canfield
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology in Arts & Sciences
Canfield, a sociocultural anthropologist, spent nine years in Afghanistan. His research focuses on Islamic movements in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and other Central Asian countries. He supports the U.S. war in Afghanistan, but was highly critical of the Bush administration regarding the war in Iraq. ...
Expertise: Islamic politics, U.S. anti-terrorism policy, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Eastern Islamic World, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5282
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canfrobt@artsci.wustl.edu
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Ahmet Karamustafa
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Program
Karamustafa is a medievalist/premodernist and works on the intellectual and social history of Islamic societies from the 13th to the 16th centuries. He is an expert on Islam and the theory and methods of all religions. Karamustafa specializes in premodern Islamic thought. His most recent book, God's ...
Expertise: Understanding Islam, premodern Islamic thought, world religions, religious studies
Direct contact: (314) 935-4446
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akaramus@artsci.wustl.edu
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Hillel J. Kieval
Chair of history and the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought in Arts & Sciences
Professor Kieval's work focuses on transformations in Jewish culture and society in East Central Europe (Austria-Hungary, Germany and Poland) from the Enlightenment to the Second World War; more specifically, on the effects of modernization projects, ethnic and national struggles, social conflict, ...
Expertise: Jewish culture in East Central Europe, antisemitism on Jewish life, Jewish-Gentile relations, linguistic, cultural and communal affiliations among Jews, Jewish society in Bohemia, Jewish experience in Czech lands, …
Direct contact: 314-935-5426
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hkieval@wustl.edu
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Victor Le Vine
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Victor Le Vine is an expert on hostages, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and political problems of the Middle East and Northern Africa. Other areas of interest include international law and politics and ethnic politics. He has followed the situation in Iraq closely since well before the Gulf War and can ...
Expertise: politics, terrorism, guerrilla warfare, Middle East, Iraq, Africa, Liberia, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5867
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vlevine@artsci.wustl.edu
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Sunita Parikh
Associate Professor of Political Science in Arts & Sciences
Parikh, an expert on political issues in India and Pakistan, conducts research on comparative politics, institutions and race, and ethnicity. She has published a book on the institutional development of affirmative action in the United States and India, using comparative historical and rational-choice ...
Expertise: comparative politics, race and ethnicity, institutions, comparative methods
Direct contact: (314) 935-5830
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saparikh@artsci.wustl.edu
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