This course examines trends in historical analysis and focuses primarily on the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholars working in the United States. Although most of the texts we read deal with early modern Europe, Africa, and the Americas, this class is focused on historiography rathe...
Yasemin İpek is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Global Affairs Program. Her research is situated at the intersection of the anthropology of politics, activism, and inequality; critical studies of humanitarianism and refugees; decoloniality studies; and studies of Islam, sectarianism, and na...
Nathaniel Greenberg is an Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University. Focusing on the intersection of literature, media, and politics in the modern Middle East and North Africa, Greenberg is the author of several books including most r...
Heba El-Shazli is Assistant Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on International Relations Theory, Politics, Government and Society of the Middle East, and Political Islam. She holds a Ph.D. in Government an...
Leslie Dwyer is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on issues of violence, gender, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, the politics of memory and identity, critical medical and psychological approaches to social suffering, and globalizing discourses of human rights, social activ...
Robert DeCaroli received his Ph.D. in the field South and Southeast Asian art history from UCLA. He is a specialist in the early history of Buddhism and has conducted fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formatio...
Dr. Peter Mandaville is Professor of International Affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. From 2015-2016 he served as Senior Adviser in the Secretary of State’s Office of Religion & Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of State where he led that office’s...
Dr. Dakake researches and publishes on Islamic intellectual history, Quranic studies, Shi`ite and Sufi traditions, and women's spirituality and religious experience. She is one of the general editors and contributing authors of the The Study Quran (HarperOne, 2015), which comprises a translation and ...
Explore Your Options The fields of Middle East and Islamic studies are more pertinent than ever before, and there is a plethora of resources available to you! Use Available Resources Many students don’t realize that Mason's Career Services office is one of the best resources on campus, and at your...
What Next? States, Conflicts, and Policy in the Middle East A One-Day Symposium Wednesday, 2 May, 12 pm - 5 pm Founders Hall 113, Mason Square Campus [Event streamed to Fairfax Campus Via JC 3rd Floor, Room G] GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Limited Space Register/RSVP here meis@gmu.ed...
