
Asma Afsaruddin, a renowned area studies scholar who teaches modern Islamic thought
At SGIS, our faculty ranks are as wide-ranging as they are deep. They include area studies scholars, anthropologists, scholars of literature or gender studies, historians, lawyers, linguists, political scientists, and sociologists, among many others.
For example, there is a MacArthur fellow who studies the Silk Road and a leading expert on the inner workings of the United Nations.
Our faculty also include former ambassadors and senior government officials, diplomats, and leaders of nonprofit organizations.
SGIS, along with four other leading schools, is part of the Carnegie International Policy Scholars Consortium. Faculty and students at the five schools, which include MIT, Duke, Syracuse, and the University of Virginia, are coming up with new ways to link academic scholarship with policy-making. In other words, they're inventing ways to bring their findings down from the ivy tower and out into the real world.
From upper left: Former Iraqi ambassador Feisal al-Istrabadi, founding director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East. Dean Lee Feinstein with Presidential Medal of Freedom winners Senator Richard Lugar (center) and Representative Lee Hamilton (right). Associate Professor Emma Gilligan.
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Asma Afsaruddin, a renowned area studies scholar who teaches modern Islamic thought
Andrew Bell, a scholar and former active duty Air Force officer who focuses on the law of war and ethics in conflict
David Bosco, a leading expert on the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court
Gardner Bovingdon, who studies Chinese contemporary politics and minority rights
Devin DeWeese, a distinguished scholar of Islamic Central Asia
Yan Long, an expert on global public health, who is currently writing a book about the politics of AIDS in China
Jessica O’Reilly, an anthropologist who studies climate change and environmental management