Umar Shareef has recently joined IMES as a postdoctoral scholar. He earned his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies this year from Georgetown University, where he also received the “Graduate Student Teach…
Dr. Anna Caney will be joining IMES in early January 2026. Dr. Caney’s research interests focus on the history of U.S. Iranian relations, war, culture and society, and the history of protest a…
Visiting scholar Erin Snider has recently joined IMES. Dr. Snider is a scholar of democracy assistance, foreign aid, and the international political economy of development with more than twent…
Visiting scholar Samer Shehata will be joining the Institute for Middle East Studies for the 2024-2025
Academic Year. Dr. Shehata is the Colin and Patricia Molina de Mackey Associate Professor…
IMES is happy to announce that we will be hosting Dr. Ahmed Zohny as a non-resident scholar during the 24-25 academic year. Dr. Zohny is currently a Professor in the Department of Applied Soci…
Visiting scholar Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D., will be joining IMES later this summer. She is an award-winning foreign relations historian and was a 2023-2024 National Fellow at the Hoover Institut…
Visiting scholar Hanna Berg is a fifth year PhD candidate from the department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her academic background is in Semitic languages an…
Dr. June Park
Dr. June Park is a South Korean political economist working on geopolitical risk and emerging technologies, observing East Asia, the U.S., Europe and the Persian Gulf. She focuse…
Graham Auman Pitts teaches history and international studies at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on the environmental history of war, food, and famine in the modern Middle E…
Oussema Othmeni is a PhD Candidate and a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sousse, Tunisia, and has joined the Institute for Middle East Studies as a Visi…
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