Faculty Liaisons

Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) faculty liaisons are the primary contact for students at each Big Ten Academic Alliance institution. See the list below for your university’s faculty liaison.

Jeanne H. Kilde

University of Minnesota

Director Religious Studies Program

jkilde@umn.edu

Jyoti Gulati Balachandran

Pennsylvania State University

Assistant Professor of History

jzb461@psu.edu

Robert Crouch

Indiana University-Bloomington

Interim Director, Islamic Studies Program

rocrouch@indiana.edu

Charles Haberl

Rutgers University

Associate Professor, Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures

haberl@amesall.rutgers.edu

Mauro Nobili

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor of History

nobili@illinois.edu

Morgan Liu

The Ohio State University

Associate Professor in Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

liu.737@osu.edu

 

Abla Hasan

University of Nebraska Lincoln

Assistant Professor of Practice of Arabic Language & Culture

abla.hasan@unl.edu

Samer Ali

University of Michigan

Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature

samerali@umich.edu

Mohammad Hassan Khalil

Michigan State University

Professor of Religious Studies, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Director of the Muslim Studies Program

khalilmo@msu.edu

Brannon Ingram

Northwestern University

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

brannon.ingram@northwestern.edu

Ahmed Idrissi Alami

Purdue University

Associate Professor of Languages and Cultures

aidrissi@purdue.edu

Peter Wien

University of Maryland

Professor for the History of the Modern Middle East

PC: Michael R. Barnes, Smithsonian Institution

pwien@umd.edu