Affiliated Faculty
Aslihan Akkaya, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Teaching and Research: Language and Media, Language and Piety, Turkish Diaspora, Social Movements
Email: akkaya.aslihan@fiu.edu
Mahadev Bhat, Departments of Economics and Environmental Studies
Teaching and Research: Economics of Coastal Resource Management, International Trade and Biodiversity, Environmental Issues in Central Asia and Asia
Email: Bhatm@fiu.edu
Ferial Maya Boutaghou, Department of Modern Languages & Women's and Gender Studies
Teaching and Research: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (French-English-Arabic-Indian), Cultural and transcultural Theory, Literary Theory, Literature and History, Post colonial Subject, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Email: fboutagh@fiu.edu
Mario Diament, School of Journalism and Broadcasting
Teaching and Research: National and International Media, Latin America, Middle East Media and Journalism
Email: Mario.Diament@fiu.edu
Mohammad Farouk, College of Education
Teaching and Research: Social Studies Education, Global and Comparative Education, Africa and Muslim World
Email: Faroukm@fiu.edu
Zahra Hazari, STEM Transformation Institute, College of Education
Teaching and Research: Science (Physics) Education, Gender Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Science, Curriculum Evaluation, Research Methods in Education
Email: zhazari@fiu.edu
Joel Heinen, Department of Environmental Studies
Teaching and Research: Conservation Biology and Policy, International Biodiversity, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan
Email: Joel.Heinen@fiu.edu
Mohamad Homayounvash, Department of Politics and International Relations
Teaching and Research: Strategic Studies, Foreign Policy, IR of the Middle East and Contemporary Problems in International Relations
Nathan Katz, Department of Religious Studies
Teaching and Research: South Asian Religions, Buddhism, Indo-Judaic Studies, History of Religions
Email: Nathan.Katz@fiu.edu
Anahid Kulwicki, Associate Dean for Research, Director of the PhD Program College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Email: Akulwick@fiu.edu
Erik Larson, Department of Religious Studies
Teaching and Research: Dead Sea Scrolls, Christian Origins , Aramaic, Greek Culture and the Ancient Near East, Ancient Judaism
Email: Erik.Larson@fiu.edu
Abraham Lavender, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Teaching and Research: Ethnicity, Judaic Studies, Political Sociology
Email: Abraham.Lavender@fiu.edu
Anjana Mishra, , Department of Political Science and International Relations
Teaching and Research: International Relations of South Asia, Contemporary International Problems, Politics Of Development And Underdevelopment & International Organizations.
Email: Mishraa@fiu.edu
Neil Reisner, School of Journalism and Broadcasting
Teaching and Research: National and International Journalism, Middle East Media and Journalism
Email: Neil.Reisner@fiu.edu
Meri-Jane Rochelson, English Department
Teaching and Research: American and Jewish literature, Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Literature, Israel Zangwill
Email: Meri-Jane.Rochelson@fiu.edu
Naisy Sarduy, Department of Politics and International Relations
Teaching and Research: Middle East Politics, International Relations of the Middle East, Contemporary Problems in International Relations
Oren Stier, Department of Religious Studies
Teaching and Research: Judaic Studies, Religion and Culture, Holocaust Memorial and Representation, Jewish Mysticism and Modern Thought, Religion and Violence
Email: Oren.Stier@fiu.edu
Eric Von Wettberg, Department of Biological Sciences
Teaching and Research: Dr Eric von Wettberg is a conservation geneticist with a PhD from Brown University and a BA from Swarthmore College, a former Fulbright scholar to Denmark's Royal Veterinary and Agriculture University and an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis. He teaches Population Genetics and Evolution at FIU. His research on plant adaptation to stressful soils occurs in Tunisia, India, Portugal, the Caribbean and South Florida.
Email: ebishopv@fiu.edu
Zion Zohar, Department of Religious Studies
Teaching and Research: Sephardic/Oriental Jewish Studies, Jewish Mysticism/ Kabbalah
Email: Zion.Zohar@fiu.edu
