Iran

Farshid Alambeigi

Mechanical Engineering

Farshid Alambeigi’s research focuses on developing high dexterity and situationally aware continuum manipulators, soft robots, and appropriate instruments especially designed for less/minimally invasive treatment of various medical applications.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Andrew Butters

Journalism and Media

Andrew Butters is a journalist who has written extensively about the Middle East.

Dale Correa

History, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies

Dale Correa specializes in Islamic legal theory, theology, philosophy, and Qur'anic studies, with an interest in the intellectual tradition of the eastern regions of the Islamicate empire.

Warn Farnsworth

Philosophy, Law

Ward Farnsworth teaches on torts, contracts, civil procedure, admiralty, and rhetoric.

Shadi Goodarzi

Mechanical Engineering

Shadi Goodarzi's research interests are sustainable operations management, renewable energy, environmental policy, and energy economics, where she applies a combination of mathematical modeling, statistical and analytical techniques such as game theory, optimization, data analysis, and forecasting.

Mehdi Haghshenas

Sociology

Mehdi Haghshenas’ research interests, include fertility behavior, technology and social work, human mindfulness and interconnectivity, form and culture, love/relationships and emotional intelligence, children and love, creativity and society, and pairs of opposites and non-duality.

Zoya Heidari

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

Zoya Heidari’s research focuses on developing methods and workflows for integrating multi-scale formation data to enhance reservoir characterization of challenging formations. The group analyzes the outcomes from experimental data, analytical rock physics model development, and numerical modeling to evaluate static and dynamic formation properties for reliable characterization of reservoirs to enhance production and recovery factors.

Mikiya Koyagi

Middle Eastern Studies

Mikiya Koyagi studies social and cultural history of modern Iran as well as the history of intra-Asian connections since the 19th-century, with a focus on the interactions between Japan and the Muslim world.

Alan Kuperman

Public Affairs

Alan Kuperman's research focuses on ethnic conflict, peaceful conflict management, military intervention, national security, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Javad Mohammadi

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Javad Mohammadi's research interests include multi-agent optimization and machine learning in networked cyber-physical systems, including smart grid-interactive buildings, power grid, and electrified transportation systems.

Ahmed Azfar Moin

Religious Studies, History

Ahmed Moin studies the history of the pre-modern Islamic world from comparative perspectives with a focus on concepts and practices of sovereignty. One of his projects focuses on ritual violence and kingship in late medieval and early modern world. Moin teaches courses on religious transformations in the early modern Islamic world, rituals and practice of sovereignty in Islam, and theory and method in the study of religion.

Aryan Mokhtari

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aryan Mokhtari's research interests include the areas of optimization, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, focusing on the theory and applications of convex and non-convex optimization in large-scale machine learning and data science problems.

Stephennie Mulder

Middle Eastern Studies, Art and Art History

Stephennie Mulder is a specialist in Islamic art, architectural history, and archaeology. Her research interests include the art and architecture of Shi’ism, the intersections between art, spatiality, and sectarian relationships in Islam, anthropological theories of art, material culture studies, theories of ornament and mimesis, and place and landscape studies.

Faegheh Shirazi

Middle Eastern Studies

Faegheh Shirazi's research centers on Islamic popular religious practices and rituals, studying their influence on gender identity and discourse in Muslim societies with a primary focus on Iran, Islamic veiling, material culture, textiles, and clothing.

Nahid Siamdoust

Liberal Arts

Nahid Siamdoust's interests include Middle Eastern cultural production and politics, Iranian national and transnational culture and media, and social media and disinformation.

Denise Spellberg

History, Middles Eastern Studies, Religious Studies

Denise Spellberg's research centers on intellectual, religious, and gender history, focusing on the medieval Islamic world from Iran to North Africa. She also looks at Islam and Muslims in early modern and contemporary Europe and the U.S.

Babak Tabarraee

Middle Eastern Studies

Babak Tabarraee’s research revolves around media reception in modern Iran.

Mehran Tehrani

Mechanical Engineering

Mehran Tehrani’s research focuses on advanced multifunctional composites and lies at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, materials science, and mechanics. Examples of projects include additively manufactured polymer composites, metal-nanocarbon hybrid conductors, multi-material additive/subtractive manufacturing, automated fiber placement, and graphene-based structural composites.

Levi Thompson

Middle Eastern Studies

Levi Thompson's research focuses on modernist literary developments outside of Europe, and he writes on the subject of modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry.

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