
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Hamilton Lugar School faculty come from a range of backgrounds and engage in a wide spectrum of research.
They are scholars on human rights, security, public health, climate change, and area studies. They are linguists, military veterans, historians, and sociologists. They are former humanitarian aid workers, diplomats, and nonprofit leaders.
But above all else, our faculty members are thinkers, doers, mentors, and teachers.
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Yasuko Akiyama
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Program Director, Arabic Flagship Center
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Nana Amoah-Ramey
Lecturer, African Studies Program
Rahman Arman
Visiting Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, International Studies
Yingling Bao
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Samuel Bass
Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Director, Tobias Center for Innovation in International Development
Associate Professor, International Studies
Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Chair, International Studies
Associate Professor, International Studies
Professor, International Studies
Academic Director, IU India Gateway
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, International Studies
Joseph Bradshaw
Director of Defense and Security Initiatives
Professor of Practice, Central Eurasian Studies
Beth Buggenhagen
Director, African Studies Program
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Senior Lecturer, Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies
Director, Chinese Flagship Center
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Jamsheed Choksy
Interim Chair, Central Eurasian Studies
Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Dan Coats
Ambassador At Large
Elisheva Cohen
Director of International Education Programs and Outreach
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Interim Dean
Professor, International Studies
Shahyar Daneshgar
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Professor Emeritus, Central Eurasian Studies
Professor, International Studies
Kathleen Evans
Director, Language Workshop
Founding Dean
Professor, International Studies
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Director, Institute for Korean Studies
Associate Professor, International Studies
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Esther Ham
Senior Lecturer, Institute for European Studies
Distinguished Scholar; Professor of Practice
Professor, African Studies Program
Director, Institute for European Studies
Senior Lecturer, Institute for European Studies
Malik Hodjaev
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Lecturer, International Studies
Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Professor in Global Strategic Studies, Central Eurasian Studies
Director, Center for the Study of the Middle East
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Professor, International Studies
Gregory Kasza
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Professor, International Studies
Language Instruction Specialist, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Director, Institute for Korean Studies
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Piibi-Kai Kivik
Language Program Coordinator
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Eli Konwest
Director, Center for the Study of Global Change
Nicole Serena Kousaleos
Senior Lecturer, International Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Tserenchunt Legden
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: East Asian international relations; Japanese and Chinese foreign policy; security studies; U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy
Xiaoying Liles
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Xiang Lyu
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, International Studies
Rebecca Manring
Director, Dhar India Studies
Professor, Dhar India Studies
Misako Matsubara
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Director of HLS Living-Learning Center
Academic Director, Arabic Language Flagship
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Gulnisa Nazarova
Director, Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
Teaching Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Senior Lecturer, International Studies
Alexandra Novitskaya
Postdoctoral Fellow, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Co-Director, Cybersecurity and Global Policy Program
Senior Analytics Officer
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, International Studies
Alwiya Omar
Director, National African Language Resource Center
Clinical Professor of Linguistics, African Studies Program
Instructional Coordinator, African Studies Program
Director, East Asian Studies Center
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Jahyon Park
Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Director, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Professor, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Assistant Professor, International Studies
Benjamin Priest
Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Gedun Rabsal
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Senior Assistant Dean for Curricular and Undergraduate Affairs; Diversity Officer; Director, International Law and Institutions Program, Affiliated Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Director, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Executive Associate Dean, HLS
Associate Professor, Department of History
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Kazeem Sanuth
Associate Director, National African Language Resource Center
Emeritus Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, International Studies
Antonia Schleicher
Emeritus Senior Scholar/Scientist, African Studies Program
Casey Schoenberger
Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Director, Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Bongeka Selepe
Lecturer, African Studies Program
Emeritus Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Emeritus Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Kashika Singh
Senior Lecturer, Dhar India Studies Program
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Andrea Siqueira
Senior Lecturer, International Studies
Amadou Sow
Senior Lecturer, African Studies Program
Aaron Stalnaker
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Professor, International Studies
Global Affairs Fellow
HLS Living Learning Center Global Leader in Residence
Daniel Suslak
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Peg Sutton
Director, Southeast Asian Studies
Associate Professor, Southeast Asian Studies
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Shoichi Ueda
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Valeria Varga
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
Chair, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Attia Youseif
Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Justyna Zając
Director, Polish Studies Center
Professor of Practice in European Security Studies