Associate Members

C. Viggy Alexandersson (2020-2023)

Tenured Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies - Malcolm X College

Omer Awass (2021 - 2024)

Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies - American Islamic College

Louise Cainkar (2020 - 2023)

Associate Professor - Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University

Alan Dowty (2020 - 2023)

Professor Emeritus of Political Science - University of Notre Dame

Muhammad Eissa (2020 - 2023)

President - Eissa & Associates, Inc. 

Annie Greene (2022 - 2025)

Visiting Senior Research Associate - The University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

Li Guo (2020 - 2023)

Professor - University of Notre Dame

Shai Har-El (2020 - 2023)

Independent Scholar

Marcia Hermansen (2020 - 2023) 

Professor - Department of Theology, Loyola University Chicago

Khaled Keshk (2020 - 2023)

Associate Professor - Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University

Federico Luque-Macias (2018 - 2021) 

Arabic Teacher 9th-12 grades (IB & HH) - Lincoln Park High School

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa (2020 - 2023)

Professor - Cinema and Television Arts, Columbia College Chicago

Warren C. Schultz (2020 - 2023)

Professsor - Department of History, DePaul University

Fariba Zarinebaf (2020 - 2023)

Professor - Department of History, University of California-Riverside