Academic Council
Academic Council
2006-2009
Rev. J. Bryan Hehir -- Co-chair
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Dr. Ali Mazrui -- Co-chair
Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies
Binghamton University
Dr. Hibba Abugideiri
Assistant Professor of History
Villanova University
Dr. Zafar Ansari
Professor, Vice President of Higher Studies & Research & Director of Islamic Research Institute
International Islamic University, Pakistan
Dr. Ali Asani
Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures
Harvard University
Dr. Osman Bakar
Professor, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)
International Islamic University, MALAYSIA
Dr. Juan Cole
Professor, Department of History
University of Michigan
Dr. Leila Fawaz
Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies & Founding Director of Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Tufts University
Dr. Muqtedar Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations
University of Delaware
Dr. Ingrid Mattson
Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations/Director, Islamic Chaplaincy
Hartford Seminary
Dr. Vali Nasr
Professor Tufts University
Dr. Sulayman Nyang
Professor, Department of African Studies
Howard University
Dr. James Piscatori
Professor of Muslim Politics
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies,
University of Oxford
Dr. Tamara Sonn
William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor
College of William & Mary
Dr. Mark Tessler
Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor, Department of Political Science & Director of International Institute
University of Michigan
Dr. Thomas Michel, S.J.
Coordinator for Interreligious Dialogue Globally,
Society of Jesus, Rome