# Our Faculty ## expand\_more The core faculty members of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program (AISP) come from academic departments and centers from across Harvard University. They are deeply involved with AISP activities, lecture widely and teach courses focused on the wider Islamic world. Some serve as members of AISP’s Steering Committee. In addition to the core faculty, there are dozens of other faculty who teach and do research in subjects related to the global Islamic world from disciplines as diverse as arts & architecture and global health. While they are not as deeply rooted in the Program’s activities, these scholars play an integral role in promoting a broad, interdisciplinary understanding of Muslim societies and cultures. In an ongoing effort to deepen scholarly understanding of global and transnational Islam, and to better educate the public about Muslim cultures and societies, our faculty lecture widely and often in both academic and public settings. Alwaleed Professors Faculty Steering Committee Faculty ## Alwaleed Professors [### Ousmane Oumar Kane ](https://hwpi.harvard.edu/aisp/ousmane-kane) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Religion & Society ![ousmane-oumar-kane](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/ousmane-oumar-kane.jpg?itok=gOmsZHPg) [### David J. Roxburgh ](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/david-roxburgh) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History ![David Roxburgh Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/roxburgh-w3.5_0.jpg?itok=PE5rJDDj) [### Teren Sevea ](/people/teren-sevea) Alwaleed bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the... ![Teren Sevea](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/terensevea_headshot2020_01.png?itok=OJZcwjEh) [### Malika Zeghal ](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/malika-zeghal) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life ![malika_zeghal](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/malika_zeghal.jpg?itok=sx7CrRxc) ## Faculty Steering Committee [### Ali Asani ](/people/ali-asani) Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures ![aassani](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/aassani.jpg?itok=_eL54ZZn) [### Gareth Doherty ](/people/gareth-doherty-new) Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program Harvard Graduate School of Design Gareth Doherty takes a human-centered approach to design that aspires to shape environmentally and socially just landscapes. Doherty contributes to core knowledge in landscape architecture through applying ethnographic fieldwork and participatory design... ![garethdoherty](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/garethdoherty_19023-01-1848s.png?itok=oFhK04IF) [### Khaled El-Rouayheb ](/people/khaled-el-rouayheb) James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History ![khaled_el-rouayheb](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/khaled_el-rouayheb_01.jpg?itok=MW4U4aL_) [### Mohsen Goudarzi ](/people/mohsen-goudarzi)Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies Mohsen Goudarzi joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in July 2021, having taught previously at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He is a scholar of religion who studies the Qur’an and early Islamic history using a variety of analytical... ![Mohsen Goudarzi](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/mohsen-profile-294x400.jpg?itok=Y4w9CaXa) [### Salmaan Keshavjee ](/people/salmaan-keshavjee) [Salmaan\_Keshavjee@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:Salmaan_Keshavjee@hms.harvard.edu)Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School ![salman_kashevjee](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/salman_kashevjee.jpg?itok=L_sgublU) [### Annette Damayanti Lienau ](/people/annette-damayanti-lienau)Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Professor Lienau’s core research uses the legacy of the Arabic language as a lens for comparative studies of post-colonial literature, offering an alternative approach to the often binary (colonial/post-colonial) constructions used in more isolated... ![Annette Lienau](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/annette_lienau_photograph_square.jpg?itok=UzvAXGzB) [### Shady H. Nasser ](/people/shady-nasser) Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations ![s.nasser2](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/s.nasser2.jpg?itok=SZn1cT_o) [### Gülru Necipoğlu Kafadar ](/people/g%C3%BClru-necipo%C4%9Flu-kafadar) Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture ![gulru_necipoglu-kafadar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/gulru_necipoglu-kafadar.jpg?itok=rTmyGENL) [### David J. Roxburgh ](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/david-roxburgh) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History ![David Roxburgh Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/roxburgh-w3.5_0.jpg?itok=PE5rJDDj) [### Teren Sevea ](/people/teren-sevea) Alwaleed bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the... ![Teren Sevea](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/terensevea_headshot2020_01.png?itok=OJZcwjEh) [### Malika Zeghal ](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/malika-zeghal) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life ![malika_zeghal](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/malika_zeghal.jpg?itok=sx7CrRxc) ## Faculty [### William A. Graham ](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/william-graham) Former Director of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Murray A. Albertson Research Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Professor William A. Graham is the Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and University Distinguished Service Professor. Currently the Director of the AISP since 2016, he is also a member of the... ![graham_william](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/graham_william-150x150.jpg?itok=6SxJLSRN) [### Tarek Masoud ](/people/tarek-masoud) [tarek\_masoud@hks.harvard.edu](mailto:tarek_masoud@hks.harvard.edu)Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance Harvard Kennedy School Tarek Masoud is the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the co-Editor of the Journal of Democracy of the National Endowment for Democracy, and serves as the Faculty... ![tarek_masoud](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/tarek_masoud_01.jpg?itok=UjC3irrv) [### Ali Asani ](/people/ali-asani) Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures ![aassani](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/aassani.jpg?itok=_eL54ZZn) [### Gareth Doherty ](/people/gareth-doherty) Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program, Harvard Graduate School of Design Gareth Doherty’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between landscape architecture and anthropology. Doherty's recent research projects have centered on landscape-related practices at various sites across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds... ![garethdoherty](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/garethdoherty_19023-01-1848s_0.png?itok=SMFgGHKT) [### Gareth Doherty ](/people/gareth-doherty-new) Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program Harvard Graduate School of Design Gareth Doherty takes a human-centered approach to design that aspires to shape environmentally and socially just landscapes. Doherty contributes to core knowledge in landscape architecture through applying ethnographic fieldwork and participatory design... ![garethdoherty](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/garethdoherty_19023-01-1848s.png?itok=oFhK04IF) [### Khaled El-Rouayheb ](/people/khaled-el-rouayheb) James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History ![khaled_el-rouayheb](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/khaled_el-rouayheb_01.jpg?itok=MW4U4aL_) [### Kristin E. Fabbe ](/people/kristin-e-fabbe) Associate Professor of Business Administration Hellman Faculty Fellow Harvard Business School ![kristin_fabbe](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/kristin_fabbe.png?itok=emlJb55d) [### William Granara ](/people/william-granara) Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment Director of Modern Language Programs Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies ![william-granara](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/william-granara.jpg?itok=op0IS1pG) [### Ousmane Oumar Kane ](https://hwpi.harvard.edu/aisp/ousmane-kane) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Religion & Society ![ousmane-oumar-kane](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/ousmane-oumar-kane.jpg?itok=gOmsZHPg) [### Salmaan Keshavjee ](/people/salmaan-keshavjee) [Salmaan\_Keshavjee@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:Salmaan_Keshavjee@hms.harvard.edu)Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School ![salman_kashevjee](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/salman_kashevjee.jpg?itok=L_sgublU) [### Roy Mottahedeh ](/people/roy-mottahedeh) Gurney Research Professor of History ![Roy Mottahedeh](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/mottahedeh_profile_photo.jpg?itok=eM4IxLtT) [### Shady H. Nasser ](/people/shady-nasser) Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations ![s.nasser2](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/s.nasser2.jpg?itok=SZn1cT_o) [### Gülru Necipoğlu Kafadar ](/people/g%C3%BClru-necipo%C4%9Flu-kafadar) Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture ![gulru_necipoglu-kafadar](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/gulru_necipoglu-kafadar.jpg?itok=rTmyGENL) [### David J. Roxburgh ](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/david-roxburgh) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History ![David Roxburgh Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/roxburgh-w3.5_0.jpg?itok=PE5rJDDj) [### Malika Zeghal ](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/malika-zeghal) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life ![malika_zeghal](/sites/g/files/omnuum9396/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/aisp/files/malika_zeghal.jpg?itok=sx7CrRxc)