Anissa Ozbek is a security studies researcher and regional studies education administrator specializing in Iran. She holds a Masters of Arts in Middle East Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, where she was also a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow for Persian. Her research areas include international relations of the Middle East, Iran’s nuclear program, and regional security. An inaugural N.E.W. Policy Fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS...
Professor of History; Interim Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
History
Christine Philliou specializes in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey and Greece as parts of the post-Ottoman world. Her first book, Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution (University of California Press, 2011) examined the changes in Ottoman governance leading up to the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-nineteenth century. It did so using the vantage point of Phanariots, an Orthodox Christian elite that was intimately involved in the day-to-day work of governance even though structurally excluded from the...
Executive Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Nathan Spannaus is a specialist in early modern Islamic intellectual history and religious thought. He is a graduate of McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies and Harvard’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and he has held positions at University of Jyväskylä (Finland), Oxford University, University of Tennessee and Princeton University. His work has appeared in Islamic Law and Society, Muslim World, Arabica, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and he has contributed to the Oxford Handbook of...
