NEW GRADUATE STUDENT AFFILIATES IN THE ABBASI PROGRAM

The Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies welcomes eleven new graduate student affiliates.

  • Tanvir Ahmed (Religious Studies)
 Sufism, Shi'ism, pre-modern religious landscapes, dissent
  • Dean Chahim (Anthropology) 
Afghanistan, political economy, development, science and technology studies, political ecology
  • Byron Gray (Anthropology) 
South Asian Islam, Shari’ah as state and non-state law, Islamic feminism, transnationalism
  • Hannah Highfill (Religious Studies) 
Sufi practice and intellectual history in Turkic and Persianate societies
  • Sherif Ibrahim (African Studies)
 Islam, Africa, postcolonialism, human rights, revolution
  • Mashail Malik (Political Science) 
contentious politics, political violence, international security, democratization, civil-military Relations, South Asia
  • Salma Mousa (Political Science) 
secularism, religious minorities, democratization, sectarianism, Egypt
  • Christiana Parreira (Political Science) 
ethnic/religious identity formation, political mobilization, international development, Eastern Mediterranean
  • Kerem Ussakli (Anthropology)
 sociocultural anthropology, law & sovereignty, literary studies, ethics, Kurds
  • Scott Williamson (Political Science)
 regime transition, lustration, political Islam, Egypt, civil-military relations
  • Duygu Yildirim (History) 
early modern Ottoman history, history of science in Islam, intellectual history

Please join SGS in welcoming these students to the Abbasi Program community and Stanford. Also consider reviewing the Abbasi Program's Autumn 2014 Events, Autumn 2014 Courses, and Call for 2014-15 Abbasi Program Student Grants. 
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