Faculty

Color Coded by institution:
Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore

Michael Sells, Dept of Religion and Philosophy, Haverford College.
Interests include Qur'an and Islamic Studies, Arabic Poetry and Sufi and
Mystical Literatures, Religions and Violence, and Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Farha Ghannam, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore College.
Interests include contemporary Islamic practices, religious identity in the
context of globalization, gender inequalities, and Arab-Islamic cultures in
Middle East and North Africa, especially Egypt and Jordan.

Scott Kugle, Dept of Religion, Swarthmore College.
Interests include the Qur'an, Islamic theology and law, Sufism and sainthood,
Islam in North Africa and South Asia, and issues of gender and sexuality among
Muslims.

Stephen Bensch, Dept of History, Swarthmore College.
Interests include Medieval Islamic history, commercial and cultural relations
between Christian and Muslims in the Mediterranean, Spain and Morocco.

John Turner, Dept. of History, Swarthmore College.
Intersts to be filled in later

David Rabeeya, Dept of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Bryn Mawr College.
Interests include Hebrew and Arabic language and literature, and Jewish culture
in Arab regions.

Peter Brampton Koelle, Dept. of Spanish, Bryn Mawr College.
Interest include Turkish language and culture and Sephardic Jewish culture in
the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

Maris Boyd Gillette, Dept. of Anthropology, Haverford College.
Research interests include urban Muslims in Northwest China and urban Hong
Kong.

Alexander Kitroeff, Dept of History, Haverford College.
Interests include Eastern Europe and the Levant, including Turkey and the
Ottoman Empire.