Melani McAlister specializes in the multiple “global visions” produced by and for Americans. In her writing and teaching, she focuses on the ways in which cultural and political history intersect, and on the role of religion and culture in shaping US “interests” in other parts of the world, particularly the Middle East and Africa. Her own interests include the rhetoric of foreign policy, transnational popular culture, nationalism and transnationalism; cultural theory; religion and US cultural history (including television, film, print, and digital).

Arie Dubnov is as an associate professor of history and International Affairs who holds the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies and serves as director of the Middle East Program. Trained in Israel and the U.S., he is a cultural and intellectual historian of twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the British mandate period in Palestine and the study of Jewish nationalism.

Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He obtained his doctorate from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and previously was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Global Institute. Dr. Hashemi was previously the founding Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. While there, he was also Co-Director of the Religion and International Affairs certificate program, as well as the Political Theory Initiative.

Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. During AY 2019-2020, Professor Makdisi was a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of History. In 2012-2013, Makdisi was an invited Resident Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin). In April 2009, the Carnegie Corporation named Makdisi a 2009 Carnegie Scholar as part of its effort to promote original scholarship regarding Muslim societies and communities, both in the United States and abroad. Makdisi was awarded the Berlin Prize and spent the Spring 2018 semester as a Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin.

Douglas Rossinow is an historian and a professor in the Department of Ethnic, Gender, Historical, and Philosophical Studies at Metro State. He first joined Metro State faculty as an assistant professor of history in 1997. He has served as chair of the Department of History, Religious & Women’s Studies (2000–2003) and as chair of the Department of History (2008–2013). From 2019 to 2021, Rossinow served as Interim Dean in Metro State's College of Liberal Arts. Rossinow teaches on a wide range of subjects, primarily but not exclusively in the field of U.S. history, including courses on religion and politics in America, the U.S.–Vietnam War, Palestine and Israel, the history of enslavement in North America, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the 1980s.