Caroline Elkins, Assistant Professor of History. Research interests include Kenya and the Mau Mau Emergency, comparative reconciliation processes, and late colonial empire. Teaches courses on colonial and modern Africa, the history of Southern Africa, and Christianity and protest.

Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies. Interested in social and cultural history of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe in the early modern era. He teaches seminars on archival research and on popular culture. His latest publications include "The Ottomans and Europe, 1400-1600" and a book on the rise of the Ottoman state.

Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History. His major work is on the pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East. Publications include Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society (1980) and The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (1985). He is the faculty adviser of a new journal, the Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review. He is currently working on the medieval Middle Eastern literature on "marvels."

Afsaneh Najmabadi, (on leave, 2001-2001) Professor of History and of Women’s Studies. Research and teaching interests center on socio-cultural transformations of gender and sexuality in the modern Middle East and South Asia, with particular attention to how these transformations are inter-articulated with conceptualizations of modernity and secularism. Recent publications include The Story of Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998); and as guest editor (and contributor), special issue of Journal of Iranian Studies (1999) on "The Uses of Guile: Literary and Historical Moments." Currently revising a manuscript, Male Lions and Female Suns: The Gendered Tropes of Iranian Modernity and beginning work on Geneaologies of Iranian Feminism. She is an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (forthcoming 2003, Leiden: E.J. Brill). During 2001-02, she will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

E. Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History. Main research interests: the political and socio-economic history for the Middle East since 1880, including government and administration, development, state/society relations, and colonialism, nationalism and independence. Recent publications include: The Middle East in the World Economy 1800-1914 (1981) and (with Sevket Pamuk) A History of the Middle East Economies in the 20th Century (1999).