People

Faculty

Janet Afary
Picture of Janet Afary
  • Director of the Iranian Studies Initiative
afary@religion.ucsb.edu
  • (805) 893-7136
  • HSSB 3047
www.janetafary.com
Mehrdad Amanat
  • 2019 Visiting Scholar
BBC Article by Dr. Mehrdad Amanat
Kevin B. Anderson
Kevin Anderson
  • Professor
  • Social and Political Theory Sociology of the Modern Middle East and Iran
kanderson@soc.ucsb.edu
  • 805-893-3118
  • Social Sciences and Media Studies Bldg 3131
http://www.kevin-anderson.com
Juan Campo
Juan Campo
  • Associate Professor
jcampo@religion.ucsb.edu
  • FAX: 805-893-2059
  • HSSB 3054
Adrienne Edgar
  • Associate Professor

Russian and Soviet History, Modern Central Asia, Nations and Nationalism, Women and Gender

edgar@history.ucsb.edu
  • HSSB 4212
Aazam Feiz
Aazam Feiz
  • Lecturer
afeiz@religion.ucsb.edu
  • HSSB 3065
John Foran
John Foran
  • Professor of Sociology
foran@soc.ucsb.edu
  • Social Sciences and Media Studies Bldg 3417
Nancy Gallagher
  • Professor
gallagher@history.ucsb.edu
  • 805- 893-3467
  • HSSB 3257
Stephen Humphreys
Stephen Humphreys
  • Professor Emeritus
humphreys@history.ucsb.edu
  • HSSB 4259
Mark Juergenmeyer
Mark
  • Distinguished Professor and the Kundan Kaur Kapany Endowed Chair

Modern Islamist Movements in Iran and other Middle Eastern and South Asian countries

juergens@global.ucsb.edu
  • SSMS 2107
http://www.juergensmeyer.org/
John W.I. Lee
John W.I. Lee
  • Professor

I currently chair the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis, and am co-organizer of the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. Visit the AMS web site to learn more.

jwilee@history.ucsb.edu
  • HSSB 4210
Scott Marcus
Scott Marcus
  • Professor

North Indian and Middle Eastern musics and performance practices, Arab music theory (maqam), North Indian folk music; tuning and temperament.

smarcus@music.ucsb.edu
  • Music Building 1137
Bahram Osqueezadah
Bahram Osqueezadeh
  • Professor
b.zadeh@gmail.com
Dwight Reynolds
Dwight Reynolds
  • Professor
dreynold@religion.ucsb.edu
  • 805-893-7143
  • HSSB 3056
Adam Sabra
Adam Sabra
  • Professor

My teaching and research focus on the Middle East, especially Egypt, in the medieval and early modern periods. I am particularly interested in the social and cultural history of Cairo. Having previously studied the poor of medieval Cairo, I am currently working on aristocratic families in the period 1500 – 1800. Other areas of interest include legal history and Islamic mysticism.

asabra@history.ucsb.edu
  • HSSB 3260
https://ucsb.academia.edu/AdamSabra
Laila Shereen Sakr
  • Assistant Professor
ssakr@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
  • 2020 Social Sciences & Media Studies (SSMS)
http://vjumamel.com
Sherene Seikaly
Sherene Seikaly
  • Associate Professor
sseikaly@history.ucsb.edu
  • HSSB 4223

Graduate Students

Unita Ahdifard
  • Graduate Student
Naz Keynejad
  • Graduate Student
Sarp Kurgan
  • Graduate Student
Mohammadreza Mirzaei
  • Graduate Student
Ashkon Molaei
  • Graduate Student
Toloo Riazi
  • Graduate Student
Leila Zonouzi
  • Graduate Student

Visiting Scholars

Mehrdad Amanat
  • 2019 Visiting Scholar
BBC Article by Dr. Mehrdad Amanat

Staff

Andrew Delvasto
  • Webmaster
andrewdelvasto@umail.ucsb.edu

Iranian Studies Initiative Alumni

2017-2018

  • Andrew Delvasto
  • Elena Torabi
  • Jasmeen Chauhan
  • Jasmine Khamenian
  • Kate Ghodoosian
  • Kirsten Bejarano
  • Kyle Bates
  • Maya Garabedian
  • Miles Daniel Markstein
  • Rachel A. Gregory
  • Veronica Blevins

2016-2017

  • Amell, Ashley
  • Assadi, Sahand Mir
  • Bates, Kyle
  • Boudames, Tanios
  • Freedman, Evyn
  • Ganjali, Arian
  • Govargiz, Damoun
  • Hubert, Zhang
  • Johnson, Brittney
  • Kahsu, Rosalyn
  • Marty, Aysha
  • Mazdisnian, Neda
  • Napier, Jordyn
  • Nurafkan, Bashir
  • Woods, Mariah

2015-2016

  • Ganjali, Aria
  • Arzani, Ariana
  • Mahoney, Kaitlin
  • Hoang, Maria
  • Aoun, Michelle
  • Khashayar, Mozaffari
  • Mehrdad, Natasha
  • Enayat, Shirin

2014-2015

  • Samira Seraji
  • Van Noy, Nicole
  • Borhani, Ramin
  • Seyf, Sadaf
  • Baker, Sonia
  • Preea, Zareena