ACADEMIC EXPERTS
We are honored to collaborate with our academic advisors, who bring a diversity of expertise and specialist knowledge of the subjects, themes, and time periods we cover. These scholars are involved in every stage of the creative process and are critical to ensuring historical accuracy and cultural sensitivity. We are grateful for their contributions.
Zain Abdullah
Independent Scholar, Curator, and Consultant. Emeritus, Associate Professor of Religion & Society and Islamic Studies, Religion Department, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University.
Donna Auston
Foundation Anthropologist, Disciplinary Conversations & Public Programs at Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Edward E. Curtis IV
Millennium Chair of Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPU.)
Sylvia Chan-Malik
Associate Professor, Departments of American and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University.
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Professor of Religion, Carleton College.
Zareena Grewal
Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies, and Anthropology, Yale University.
Ali Asani (Specialist Advisor)
Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Studies, Harvard University.
Denise Spellberg (Specialist Advisor)
Professor of History and Middle Eastern History, University of Texas at Austin.
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Sally Howell (Specialist Advisor)
Associate Professor of History. Director of the Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Michael Gomez (Specialist Advisor)
Silver Professor, Professor of History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University.
Precious Rasheeda Muhammad (Specialist Advisor)
Independent scholar.
Richard Brent Turner (Specialist Advisor)
Professor of African American Religious History, University of Iowa.
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