Professor, School of Architecture. Dr. Ali's research interests include tall buildings, earthquake-resistant design, structural system selection, structural-architectural integration, and flood-proof habitation.  He is also involved in developing an architecture program in Bangladesh.

Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. Dr. Arends-Kuenning's research involves fertility and contraceptive use in developing countries, social learning, labor supply and returns to education in developing countries, and economics of the household.

Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. Dr. Bellafiore's research interests and expertise include the evolution of urban form, the history of town planning, adaptive use of urban space, and vegetation policy and guidelines for small communities. 

Head and Professor, Department of Linguistics; Coordinator of Arabic Language Program. Dr. Benmamoun's research interests include comparative syntax with special emphasis on Arabic dialects, the language situation in the Arab world (its sociological, educational, political and cultural dimensions), and research on the representation and characterization of lexical relations within the lexical and morphological system of Arabic.

Professor, Department of Mathematics. Dr. Berndt's areas of specialization are number theory, Ramanujan's notebooks, special functions, elliptic (especially Theta) functions, q-series, and continued fractions.

Chair, Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE); Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and SLATE. Dr. Bhatt teaches courses in Sociolinguistics and South Asian Linguistics, supervises the Hindi program, and is a core faculty member of SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994, and has taught at the University of Tennessee and at the University of South Carolina prior to coming to Illinois in Fall 2000. His main research interests are language contact, critical socioloinguistics, world Englishes, and Indo-Aryan syntax. Among his recent publications are: Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri (Kluwer, 1999), Optimal Expressions in Indian English (English Language and Linguistics, 2000), World Englishes (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2001), and Code-swtiching: Structural Models (Concise Encyclopedia of Socioloinguistics, Elsevier Science, to appear). He is currently finishing his co-authored book (with Rajend Mesthrie): World Englishes (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature; Director, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Booth's research interests include aesthetics and historicity in early Arab feminisms; 19th-century Arabic novel and "arabizations" of European novels; theory and practice of auto/biography transculturally; masculines/feminines in Arabic nationalist and feminist discourses; theorizing popular culture and dialect literatures in Arabic and English; literary translation, theory and practice; contemporary fiction in Arabophone societies and concepts of postcoloniality; human rights and literary practice.

Professor, College of Law. A scholar in the areas of international law and human rights, Dr. Boyle has written and lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on the relationship between international law and politics.

Associate Professor, Division of Musicology, School of Music; Director, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC). A specialist in the musical styles of Bulgaria, the Balkans, and the CIS (especially Russia and the Republic of Georgia), Dr. Buchanan's scholarly interests include music as symbolic communication, music in aesthetic systems, music and power relations, music and cosmology, and music and social identity.

Professor and Chair, Department of History; Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies. Dr. Burton's was trained as a Victorianist and her work has focused on women, gender and empire in the context of modern Britain and colonial India. She has a longstanding interest in the history of imperial political culture and a developing interest in the challenges of world history.

Assistant Professor, Department of History. Dr. Chandra specializes in the history of South Asia, with emphasis on women, gender and sexuality, and feminist and postcolonial studies.

Professor, Food & Biochemical Engineering, Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition; Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Dr. Cheryan's research interests include membrane technology; fermentation and bioprocessing; corn refining and processing; plant (vegetable) proteins; dairy technology.

South Asian Studies Librarian. Associate Professor in Library Administration.

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics. Dr. Cole's research interests lie in experimental and theoretical research that investigates the physical and cognitive bases of phonological systems. Other areas of interest include the linguistic structures of Indic languages, with a current special focus on Sindhi prosody, and computational models of phonological grammars and speech processing.

Professor, Department of Speech Communication, Department of Psychology, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Dr. Contractor's research interests include the emergence (creation, maintenance, and dissolution) of communication and knowledge networks. Applications of complexity theory, chaos theory, and self-organizing systems theory to the study of organizing. Globalization and new forms of organizing. Computational modeling of organizational structures and processes. Advanced quantitative data analytic techniques including structural equation modeling, time series analysis, and network analysis.

Muhammad al-Faruque

Associate Professor of Library Administration in the Asian Library and Middle Eastern Studies Librarian.

Professor, Department of Political Science and College of Law. Dr. Ginsburg's research interests cover comparative public law and regulation, international law and arbitration, law and economics, East Asia, and the politics of legal reform in developing countries.

Professor, Department of History. Dr. Hitchins' research interests include Nationalism, Habsburg monarchy in the 18th & 19th centuries, Romanian and Hungarian history, Central Asia.

Associate Professor, Program for the Study of Religion. Dr. Hoffman teaches courses on all aspects of Islam, from the Qur'an to medieval theology and philosophy, Sufism, local expressions of Islam throughout the Muslim world, modern politics, and women in Muslim societies. Her areas of research specialization include Sufism in modern Egypt, Islamic gender ideology, Muslim women's religious lives, Islamic scholarship in 19th- and early 20th-century Oman, the Hadramawt and Zanzibar, and contemporary Islamic movements.

Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Associate Dean College of Fine and Applied Arts. Dr. Hopkins research interests include: how has urban development been affected by plans?; how can we choose appropriate geographic, functional, organizational, and temporal scopes for plans?; can computing tools improve collaborative sketch planning; computing tools for sketch planning and urban modeling and effects of urban infrastructure on urban form.

Professor and Director, Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Dr. Kesan's interests include intellectual property, law and regulation of cyberspace, and science, technology and the law.

Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. Dr. Khanna's research interests are technology adoption and policies to induce pollution prevention, welfare analysis of alternative policies for abatement of global warming, and economic incentives and environmental implications of business-led environmental management.

Endowed Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Dr. Kim's current research areas are combined land use-transportation modeling; impact analysis of earthquakes on transportation and regional economies; analyses of emission control for the transportation sector; economic analysis of transportation sector investment in Indonesia; planning for the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; GIS applications to urban systems analysis; GIS standardization; impact analysis of information technology on urban form and structure; and intelligent transportation systems.

Franklin W. Woeltge Professor and Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Kumar's current research interests are in wireless networks, semiconductor wafer fab operations, learning, and financial economics.

Professor, Human Development and Family Studies Program and Pampered Chef Endowed Chair in Family Resiliency. Dr. Larson's research interests include adolescents' experience in the after-school hours; youth activities; daily family dynamics of activity and emotion and adolescence in the 21st century.

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Department of Linguistics, and Program in Cognitive Science. Dr. Lehman's main research efforts are devoted to mathematical anthropology, cognitive science, and linguistics, as well as to the anthropology, linguistics, and history of Southeastern and South Asia. His major research has been on the peoples of the region from Easternmost India through Burma to Northwestern Thailand.

Professor, Department of Anthropology. Dr. Lewis' primary research focus is the ethnohistory and archaeology of late medieval and early modern South India.

Professor, Department of History. Dr. Lynn's research interests include Absolutism and armies in France, 1600-1789; the formation of revolutionary armies, 1792-1796.

Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Program for the Study of Religion. Dr. Mayer's research interests include the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism and Sanskrit Buddhism.

Professor, Department of Educational Psychology. Dr. McClure's current projects include content analysis and grammatical analysis of children's stories written in English and Spanish, the description of Romanian-Bulgarian codeswitching, the description of Assyrian-English codeswitching, the description of the role of the maintenance of Assyrian language skills in the maintenance of Assyrian ethnic identity.

Professor, Religious Studies and Department of Philosophy. Director, Program for the Study of Religion. Dr. McKim's major research interests include philosophy of religion, history of early modern philosophy (especially Locke and Berkeley), and ethics.

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Dr. Miraftab's work has focused on the access to housing by low-income groups, women, and immigrants in industrialized and developing countries, the role of NGOs and community-based groups in community development, and a range of issues critical to processes of development in the Third World.

Professor, Department of Physics. Dr. Nayfeh's research interests include atomic, molecular, and optical physics; and laser atomic spectroscopy.

Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. Dr. Nelson has two research projects underway: Economic spatial analysis and Economics of GMOs in agriculture.

Associate Professor and Program Chair in School of Art & Design. David O'Brien studies nineteenth-century French artistic voyages in North Africa and the Middle East, and contemporary art from the same region.

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Sanskrit, and Comparative Literature. Dr. Pandharipande's research interests include sociolinguistics, Language of Religion, Syntax, Semantics, Literature of Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit, Sanskrit literary criticism, Asian mythology, History and theology of Hinduism, and Hinduism in diaspora.

Swanlund Chair and Professor, Department of Mathematics.  Dr. Pillary's area of interest and specialization are model theory, and applications to algebra, geometry and number theory.  Professor Pillay was awarded a Humboldt Research Award recently.

Professor, Program for the Study of Religion. Dr. Pitard's primary areas of research are the history of ancient Syria and its political and cultural relationship with Israel; concepts of death and afterlife in ancient Syria-Palestine; and the production of a new image-based, digital edition of the ancient Canaanite texts from the city of Ugarit, Syria, entitled The Ugaritic Tablets Digital Edition

Professor, Program for the Study of Religion, Department of History, and Comparative Literature. Dr. Porton also holds the Drobny Professor of Talmudic Studies and Judaism. His major research interests include "the other" in Judaism, rabbinic ideas of the gentile, conversion in Judaism in late antiquity, Jewish biblical exegesis, literary studies of rabbinic literature, the feminine in rabbinic literature, and American liberal Judaism.

Associate Professor, Department of History. Dr. Prochaska's research focuses on cultural, France, North Africa, comparative colonialism.

Assistant Professor, Design, School of Architecture. Dr. Pyla's research examines the interconnective discourses of modern architecture, environmentalism, and socioeconomic development, spanning the disciplines of architecture history, environmental history, and cultural studies.

Professor, Department of Economics. Dr. Rashid's research focuses on money, banking and economic development; religion and economics, especially applications to South and East Asia. He has served as a consultant to the Bangladesh Planning Commission.

Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies. Dr. Rizvi is currently working on issues of identity, culture and the movement of students across national boundaries, focusing particularly on Indian students.  He is interested how international education transforms the identity of these students, and the ways in which they become attached to the Indian diasporas abroad.

Associate Professor, Program for the Study of Religion and Coordinator of Computer-Assisted Instruction of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Dr. Rosenstock's publications include: New Men: Converso Religiosity in the Fifteenth Century, a monograph dealing with the two most important converso Churchmen of 15th-century Spain, (forthcoming, spring 2003, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, series ed. Alan Deyermond); Heresies and Orthodoxies: Regulating Identities in Late Antiquity, edited conference volume, in press review; and Laughter, Revelation, Exile: Studies in the Cultural Poetics of the Bible, in preparation.

Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. Dr. Ruggles' research interests are the visual culture and built environment of the Islamic world.    She is the author of Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (2000) and in the same year produced the edited volume, Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology. Dr. Saul's research interests include precolonial and colonial West African political history, social organization, economic anthropology, the history of ideas and social theories, religion, particularly Islam and Catholic missionary activity, environmental history, the organization of West African small scale farming and markets. He also has a secondary regional interest in the Middle East.

Professor, Department of Business Administration. Dr. Seth's research focuses on corporate strategy for value creation in the U.S. and international contexts. Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws from strategy, finance and organizational economics, she examines acquisitions, diversification, restructuring, corporate governance, joint ventures and the firm's mode of expansion. She is also interested in philosophy of science issues in business research, and teaches and writes in this area. Her current research includes a comparative examination of corporate governance, strategy and competitive advantage in the U.S., European and South Asian business environments.

Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Director of ACDIS. Dr. Singer's research interests include plutonium production and reprocessing in South Asia and arms control in India, Pakistan, and China.

Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture. Dr. Sinha's research interests are in sacred landscapes, vernacular architecture, gardens, and historic and contemporary urban design. She is currently writing a book on sacred landscape of India.

Professor, Department of English. Dr. Sullivan's areas of interest are modern British literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the literature of diaspora.

Yasemin Yildiz

yy47@uiuc.edu