AY 2021-2022 Research Collective
Perin Gürel
Associate Professor of American Studies
Concurrent Associate Professor of Gender Studies
Asher Kaufman
John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute
Professor of History and Peace Studies
Ebrahim Moosa
Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies
Chana Morgenstern
University Lecturer in Postcolonial and Middle East Literature at Cambridge University and a Senior Fellow at Newnham College
Olivier Morel
Associate Professor, Joint Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures and Film, Television, and Theatre
Ernest Morrell
Professor of English and Coyle Professor in Literacy Education
Atalia Omer
Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies
Kroc Institute of Peace Studies and Keough School of Global Affairs
Alison Rice
Chair, Romance Languages and Literatures
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Francisco Robles
Assistant Professor of English
Concurrent Assistant Faculty of Gender Studies, Faculty Affiliate with Institute of Latino Studies
Mark Sanders
Professor of English and Africana Studies
Ernesto Verdeja
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Founder
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Director, Creative Writing Program
Department of English
Faculty Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
External Research Collaborators
Amir Ahmadi Arian
Visiting Faculty in English at CUNY City College and Baruch College
Amir Ahmadi Arian started his writing career as a journalist in Iran in 2000. He has published two novels, a collection of stories, and a book of nonfiction in Persian. He also translated from English to Persian novels by E.L Doctorow, Paul Auster, P.D. James, and Cormac McCarthy. Amir left Iran in 2011 to undertake a PhD in comparative literature at the University of Queensland, Australia. Since 2014 he has been writing exclusively in English. In this phase of his career, he has published short stories and essays in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, LRB, Lithub, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, etc. Amir is currently living in New York City where he earned an MFA in the NYU Creative Writing Program as The Axinn Foundation/E.L. Doctorow Fellowship recipient of 2016 – 2018. Now he is teaching literature and creative writing at CUNY City College and Baruch College, New York. His first novel in English, Then The Fish Swallowed Him, was published by HarperVia/HarperCollins in March 2020.
Sponsors
Special Thanks to Dean Sarah Mustillo
Special Thanks to John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute, Asher Kaufman