Faculty

Yildiz Atasoy

Professor, Sociology

Development studies; gender relations; Islamic politics; Turkey, Middle East.
yatasoy@sfu.ca

Darren Byler

Assistant Professor, School for International Studies

Anthropology, Forced migration, Gender, Labour, Political economy, Religion and politics, Security studies and Science, Technology and Society Studies
darren_byler@sfu.ca

Hugo Cardoso

Department Chair & Professor, Department of Archaeology

Bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology; child health in medieval Portugal; the bioarchaeology of Muslim Portugal.
hcardoso@sfu.ca

Luke Clossey

Associate Professor, History

Global history of ideas and religion; Kabul River basin.
clossey@sfu.ca

Catherine D'Andrea

Professor, Faculty of Environment

Early agricultural peoples and the rise of complex societies in the Horn of Africa.
adandrea@sfu.ca

Eiman Elnoshokaty

Librarian, SFU Library

Electronic Resources management, information activism, open access, academic libraries decolonization, and Middle Eastern Studies librarianship

Eiman_elnoshokaty@sfu.ca

Merih Erol

Associate Professor, History

Religion and ethnicities in the Ottoman Empire; music and identity; forced migration; humanitarianism in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Aude-Claire Fourot

Associate Professor, Political Science

Immigration and integration; multiculturalism; Islam in Europe and Canada; religion and public sphere; urban policy.
afourot@sfu.ca

Mariam Georgis

Assistant Professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Indigenous histories, colonialism, and SWANA.
mgeorgis@sfu.ca

Adel Iskandar

Associate Professor, School of Communication

Social media, communications, modern Middle East, post colonialism.
adel_iskandar@sfu.ca

Thomas Kuehn

Associate Professor, History

Social and cultural history of the Ottoman empire and Turkey.
thomas_kuehn@sfu.ca

JANICE JEONG

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, HISTORY

Islam in China, transnational Muslim networks, pilgrimage, migrations to the Arabian Peninsula
janice_jeong@sfu.ca

Laura Marks

Dena Wosk Professor in Art and Culture Studies

Cinema in the Arab world; Islamic genealogy of new media art.
lmarks@sfu.ca

Tamir Moustafa

Professor and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair, School for International Studies

Law and society; religion and politics; politics of the Middle East.
tmoustafa@sfu.ca

Paul Sedra

Associate Professor, History

Modern Middle East; education and the rise of the modern state; Egyptian cinema.
pdsedra@sfu.ca

Ken Seigneurie

Professor, Department of World Languages and Literatures

Modern Arabic, French and British fiction, literary theory and the history of humanist thought.
kseigneu@sfu.ca

Ozlem Sensoy

Professor, Faculty of Education

Constructions of Muslims in North America through education and media.
ozlem_sensoy@sfu.ca

Nazanin Shahrokni

Associate Professor, International Studies

Feminist Geography, Gender Politics, Ethnographies of the State, Body Politics.
nazanin_shahrokni@sfu.ca

Spyros Sofos

Assistant Professor, Global Humanities

Turkish politics and society; contentious politics, nationalism, populism, and Islamism in the Middle East; Islam and Muslim communities, identities and politics in Europe and North America.
spyros_sofos@sfu.ca

Tammara Soma

Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management

food system planning, community-based research, waste management and the circular economy.
tammara_soma@sfu.ca

Eric Werker

William Saywell Professor, Beedie School of Business

How countries can build more thriving and inclusive private sectors and how external actors influence economic and political outcomes.
ewerker@sfu.ca

Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani

Associate Professor & Chair, World Languages and Literatures

Interconnections of literature and philosophy, emphasis on the semiotics of translation.
azadeh_yamini-hamedani@sfu.ca

Baharak Yousefi

Librarian, SFU Library

Critical library and information studies; feminist geographies; libraries as sites of study, solidarity, and struggle.
byousefi@sfu.ca