People

Salar Abbasi

Affiliated Scholar

Dr. Salar Abbasi teaches Islamic Legal Theory, International Legal Theory, and Islamic Legal Theory in the Global Context at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Faculty of Law, Lisbon (Bachelor of Laws program) and Porto (Master of Laws program) campuses. A...

Akbar Ahmed

akbar@american.edu

Affiliated Scholar

Member of the Advisory Council

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is Distinguished Professor and the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University and a Wilson Center Global Fellow in Washington, D.C. He was Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland. Ahmed’s career has...

Irene Hyangseon Ahn 안향선

hahn@american.edu

Affiliated Scholar

Irene Hyangseon Ahn is a legal sociologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology at American University. Trained in comparative-historical and ethnographic methods, her research examines legal mobilization, victimhood...

Amsale (Amy) Alemu

Amsale.Alemu@howard.edu

Affiliated Scholar

Member of the Advisory Council

Amsale Alemu is an assistant professor in the Department of African Studies at Howard University. She holds a Ph.D. in African and African American Studies and A.M. in History from Harvard University. She teaches courses on higher education and social...

Sunil Amrith

sunil.amrith@yale.edu

Member of the Advisory Council

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University. He is currently on leave from his role as chair of the South Asian Studies Council, which he will resume in fall 2022. His research focuses on the movements of people and...

Charles Argon

cargon@Princeton.EDU

Graduate Associate

Charles Argon is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Princeton University. His dissertation is a history of baojia, a system of community policing, in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It examines how ideas and practices of social control evolved in response to...

David Armitage

armitage@fas.harvard.edu

Member of the Advisory Council

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and former Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is currently a Senior Scholar of the Harvard Academy for...

Alp Cenk Arslan

Affiliated Scholar

Alp Cenk Arslan is an assistant professor specializing in security and intelligence studies at the Turkish National Police Academy. With a Ph.D. in Security Strategies and Management, his dissertation, The Construction of Security on the Basis of Techno...

Ali S. Asani (علي سلطان آساڻي)

aliasani@fas.harvard.edu

Member of the Advisory Council

Ali Asani is a Kenya-born scholar of Islam, currently the Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University. Asani's scholarship on Islam encompasses Shia and Sufi...

Thomas Ashby

thomas.ashby@eui.eu

Co-organiser

Thomas Ashby is an intellectual historian of early modern political thought based at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He primarily works on English republicanism and its afterlives in global context. He is currently a Fellow at the...

Simon Silas Ayaka

ayaka.silas@phoenixuniversity.edu.ng

Affiliated Scholar

Dr. Simon Silas Ayaka is a political theorist, currently Senior Lecturer and Dean of the Department of Social Sciences at Phoenix University, in the Agwada Nasarawa state of Nigeria, where he teaches courses such as "Theories of State and Society" &...

Yixin Bai 白逸欣

yb221@georgetown.edu

Graduate Associate

Yixin is a Ph.D. student in political theory at Georgetown University. Her research interests lie in the history of political thought, with a focus on J.S. Mill, Benjamin Constant, and Edmund Burke, particularly in relation to imperialism and the concept...