The Middle Eastern Studies program faculty is comprised of professors from four different disciplines who bring together a great breadth of knowledge concerning the region.
If you would like to learn more about the Middle Eastern Studies Program, please contact the coordinator, Dr. Simon Hawkins.
Katrina Yeaw
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Georgetown University
Fields: Gender, Race, Colonialism, Violence, Memory, Law, Resistance and Collaboration, and Colonial/Post-Colonial
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Neveen Shafeek Amin
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Fields: Health Disparities, Migration, Mental health, Religion and Health, Education, Family, particularly as they relate to immigrants from the Middle East.
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Simon Hawkins
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies program
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: Gender Issues, Nationalism, and Religion in the Middle East and North Africa
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