[On 12 May 2014, the Associated Press ran a wire story about a group letter regarding the September 11 Museum film, The Rise of al-Qaeda. The story was since featured in newspapers around the world. Below is the final version of the letter, which hilights the concerns with the film as well as the signatories.]

Via Electronic Mail

President Joe Daniels and Director Alice Greenwald

National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center

200 Liberty Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY 10281

May 9, 2014

Dear President Joe Daniels and Director Alice Greenwald,

As scholars in the fields of religion, political science, history, Islam, race theory, museum studies, and related disciplines, we express concern regarding information in recent media reports about the film "The Rise of al-Qaeda" in the September 11 Memorial Museum. This documentary video is apparently the centerpiece of the section of the museum`s permanent exhibition that explains the causes of September 11.

As reported in The New York Times on April 24, the museum`s own Interfaith Advisory Group has repeatedly asked for months that this video be edited, with their concerns being dismissed entirely. According to the group`s testimony, the video deploys academically-controversial terminology of "Islamist extremism/terrorism" and "jihadism" to generalize, unnecessarily and in a haphazard manner without full definition or context, about al-Qaeda`s acts of terrorism. The advisory group argued that the video, in its present form, may give many viewers, especially those not familiar with the subtleties of the terminology being used, the impression that Islam itself is responsible for September 11.

The claims of your advisory council are extremely worrisome for us as scholars. Labels to describe organizations such as al-Qaeda are heavily disputed among academics, and in a public environment, without proper explanation and historical context, these terms could easily mislead and assign collective responsibility to Muslims and Islam. The growing field of Islamophobia studies has increasingly identified how many of these terms can serve to stigmatize Muslims.

The September 11 Memorial Museum will inevitably become one of the most visited and influential cultural institutions in the United States, and it is extremely important that its discourse and terminology reflect accurate information and broad scholarly and expert agreement. Therefore, in implementing the advice of your interfaith religious advisory council, we suggest that you immediately invite a broad, outside group of scholars to evaluate and review "The Rise of Al-Qaeda" before the museum opens on May 21.

Sincerely,

Dr. Mark Sedgwick     

Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Aarhus
Prof. William A. Graham         

Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and University Distinguished Service Professor Harvard University

Dr. Marilyn Booth        

Iraq Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh

Dr. Mohammed B. Alwan       

Senior Lecturer in Arabic, Emeritus, Tufts University

Prof. Hugh Goddard

Director of the HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dr John L. Esposito    

Professor, Georgetown University

Dr. Intisar Rabb          

Professor of Law and History, Harvard University

Suad Joseph  

Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis

Dr. Hatem Bazian       

Director, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project and Editor of the Islamophobia Studies Journal, UC Berkeley and Co-Founder, Zaytuna College

Dr. Munir Jiwa            

Director and Professor, Graduate Theological Union Center for Islamic Studies, Berkeley, CA

Dr. Adel Gamal           

Professor of Arabic Literature, University of Arizona

Thomas Michel           

Professor of Religious Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar

Mohammed Bamyeh

Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

Janet Jakobsen

Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women`s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University

Dr. Wail Hassan         

Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Cynthia Franklin          

Professor of English, University of Hawaii

Dr. Sarah Marusek     

Social Science PhD, Syracuse University

Huma Dar       

Lecturer, UC Berkeley

Dr. Idrisa Pandit          

Director, Studies in Islam, University of Waterloo

Dr. Nancy Gallagher

Research Professor, Modern Middle East History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Elliott Bazzano      

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Le Moyne College

Dr Stephen Sheehi     

Associate Professor of Arabic and Arab Studies, University of South Carolina

Prof. Dustin Byrd        

Assistant Professor of Humanities, Olivet College

Dr. Issam Eido            

Visiting fellow, University of Chicago

Dr. Paul Antze            

Associate Professor, Social Science, York University

Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander       

Researcher

Dr. Maurice Jr. M. Labelle       

Visiting Scholar in Culture and Creativity, University of Saskatchewan

Elizabeth Bishop         

Assistant Professor of History

Farid Hafez    

Visiting Scholar, Columbia University

Kate Tinworth

Principal, ExposeYourMuseum

Dr. Peter Gran

Prof. of  History, Temple University

Dr. Halide Salam         

Professor of Art, Radford University

Dagdevir Yeliz            

Universität Innsbruck

Cyra Akila Choudhury            

Associate Professor of  Law, Florida International University

Dr. Nathan Hofer        

Assistant Professor of Islam, University of Missouri

Sabra J. Webber        

Professor, The Ohio State University

Dr. Yasmine Khayyat

Rutgers University

Prof. Samer Ali           

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, UT Austin

Michael Fares

Instructional Assistant Professor of Arabic, University of Houston

Dr. Alexa Firat            

Assistant Professor of Arabic, Temple University

Dr. Gretchen Head     

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Tahia Abdel Nasser          

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo

Alexander Key           

Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Dr. Annie C. Higgins

Asst. Prof. of Arabic, College of Charleston

Tugrul Keskin

Assistant Professor and Portland State University

Dr. Nizar F. Hermes 

Lecturer in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton

Samuel Hodgkin          

Doctoral student, University of Chicago

Silvia Ferreira

PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara

Tamer Balci    

Associate Professor of History

Ahmet Öztürk

University of Vienna

Dr. Mustafa Gurbuz

Post-Doctoral Scholar, Univ. of South Florida

Dr. Haider Bhuiyan     

Professor of Arabic and Islam, University of North Georgia

Dr. Rula Jurdi

Assoc. Professor of History

Dr. Ibrahim Al-Marashi            

Assistant Professor, History, Cal State San Marcos

Elijah Reynolds           

Lecturer of Arabic

Adele M. Morrison

Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School

Lic. Phil. Claudia Bolliger         

Acad. Librarian Near Eastern Studies, University Library of Basel, Switzerland

Massih Zekavat          

Nonaffiliated Researcher

Dr Anna Bernard        

Lecturer in Comparative Literature, King`s College London

Varsha Basheer        

Doctoral Candidate, University of Kerala

Carrie Schwartz        

Assistant Curator of Education & Exhibits, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Prof. Seval Yildirim  

Professor, Whittier Law School

Dr. Caren Kaplan        

Professor of American Studies, UC Davis

Professor Talip Kucukcan      

Director of Institute for Middle East Studies, Marmara University

Öğrt. Gr. Mehmet Emin Akaslan         

YYU University

Dr.  Ismail Rashid        

Professor of History, Vassar College

Jonas Hart      

Ph.D candidate (Sociology, UVA), Instructor (CCV)

Fahri Ozturk 

Professor, University of Manchester

Sevcan Ozturk           

Professor, Social Sciences University of Ankara

Dr. Hassan Fouda      

Independent Consultant

Mohammed Sawaie    

Professor of Arabic, University of Virginia

Carolyn Brunelle         

PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages, University of Pennsylvania

Alice Gissinger           

Doctoral Student, Princeton University

Emad Hamdeh

Professor of Arabic Studies, Montclair State University

Ihsan Alkhatib             

Assistant Professor, Murray State University

Dr. Randi Deguilhem

Professor, CNRS

George Archer

Department of Theology, Georgetown University

Mohammad Fadel       

Associate Professor of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Ahmet Karadağ          

Assoc. Prof. of Political Science, University of INONU

Sabeen Qureshi         

Social Work Graduate Student, Columbia University

Minoo Moallem            

Professor, UC Berkeley

Mariana DUSSIN

PhD Candidate Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University

Rasheed El-Enany      

Professor of Modern Arabic Literature

Elizabeth Keaney       

Education and Volunteer Coordinator, Montgomery County Historical Society

Erin Bailey      

Education and Public Programs Coordinator, Seattle Art Museum

Cassie Jones, M.A.    

Vice President, TurnKey Education, Inc.

Mohammad Ali Chaudry, Ph.D.           

Part Time Lecturer, Rutgers University

Christopher Cardiel    

Evaluation and Visitor Studies Division Supervisor, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

Th. Emil Homerin         

Professor of Religion (Islam)

Dr. Dennis Kortheuer

Lecturer, History, Cal State University, Long Beach

Elizabeth Perkins        

PhD Candidate, Columbia University

Ensar Sevil     

University of Adnan, Menderes

Amanda Steinberg     

Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Maheen Zaman          

Assistant Professor of History, Augsburg College

Hicham Tiflati              

PhD candidate, University of Quebec at Montreal

Dr. Marcia Hermansen           

Professor of Theology, Loyola University Chicago

Dr. Gregory Lipton

Part-time Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Guilford College

Nuri Aydın      

Dep. Head of A&S Board, Borsa Istanbul

Dr. Jerusha Lamptey

Assistant Professor, Union Theological Seminary

Prof. Amir Hussain     

Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, and Charter Member 9/11 Memorial Museum

Dr. Irfan Omar            

Associate Professor of Islam and World Religions

Hassan Najjar

Executive Director, Museum Center at 5ive Points

Ben Foley       

Rutgers, Sociology

Farid Al-Salim             

Assistant Professor of History, Qatar University

Karen Armstrong       

Author, Historian of Religion

Jonathan M. Bloom     

Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College

Dr Rabab Abdulhadi 

Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race & Resistance Studies

Jonathan M. Bloom     

Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College

Dr. Jeanette Jouili       

Visiting Assistant Professor, International Studies, College of Charleston

Dalia Mogahed            

Co-Author, "Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think"

Dr. Matthew Pierce    

Assistant Professor of Religion, Centre College

Dr. Miriam R. Lowi 

Professor of Political Science, The College of New Jersey

Regan Brooks

Registrar, Gaston County Museum of Art & History

Prof. Hamid Algar       

Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

Dr. Dagmar Riedel      

Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University

Susan L. Douglass     

Education Consultant, Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University

Hüseyin I. Cicek          

Mag. Dr. / Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Dr. Abdur Rab

Independent Researcher, Author

Dr. Shahrough Akhavi            

Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Dr François Burgat     

Senior Researcher at CNRS (France)

Dr. Tugra Alp

Professor of Literature, University of Istanbul

Gray Henry, MA         

Fons Vitae Academic Islamic Press

Madalena Salazar      

Latino Cultural Programs Coordinator, Denver Art Museum

Dr. Ziad Elmarsafy     

Reader, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York (UK)

Burak Taha Artun       

Marmara üniversitesi hukuk fakültesi

Diana Murtaugh Coleman       

Doctoral Candidate, Religious Studies, Arizona State University

Rebecca Macey         

Digital Engagement Specialist, Denver Art Museum

Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Attorney and Author, "The Muslim Next Door: the Qur`an, the Media, and that Veil Thing"

Suneela Mubayi

Graduate student, NYU

Dr. Homayra Ziad       

Assistant Professor of Islam, Trinity College

Annum Imran

University of Aberdeen

Kirsten Beck 

PhD Candidate, University of Texas

Nizar Polat      

Research Assistant, Kocatepe University

Dr. Mahmoud Khalifa              

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies. Modern Sciences and Arts University, Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Hibba Abugideiri

Associate Professor of History, Villanova University

Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud             

Professor of Islamic Law (retired)

Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan

Bayan Alshabani        

PhD student, Law School at Warwick University

Omair Anas                

Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India

Dr. Rosalind I. J. Hackett        

Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Edward E. Curtis IV 

Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts & Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis

Sevde Zeynep Ocak  

M.A. student, Middle Eastern Studies in Marmara University

Dr. Jeremy F. Walton

University of Goettingen, Research Fellow in the Study of Secularism

Irfan Chaudhry           

Criminology Instructor, MacEwan University

Shahirah Mahmood    

PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin Madison

Dr. Minhas Majeed Khan        

Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan

Prof. Jacques Waardenburg 

Professor (Emeritus) of Science of Religion, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Rev. Francis. Mac Mathuna 

Irish Gestalt Centre

Sabra J. Webber        

Professor, The Ohio State University

Vanessa J. Panaligan

Georgetown University

Dr. Aisha Y. Musa      

Assistant Professor of Religion and Middle Easter and Islamic Studies, Colgate University

Muhamad Ali

Professor of Islam, University of California Riverside

Dr Abdul Cader Asmal MD PhD          

Chairman of Communications, Islamic Council of New England

Şehide Zehra KELEİ

Marmara University

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D.

President, Minaret of Freedom Institute

Dr. Muhammad Eissa

Professor of Humanity, Colgate University

Dr. María Teresa Dávila          

Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Andover Newton Theological School

Mucahit Bilici               

Assistant Professor of Sociology, John Jay College, CUNY

Malik Khan      

Islamic Center of Boston, Wayland MA

David H Warren          

Doctoral Candidate, University of Manchester

Dr. Robert Rozehnal 

Associate Professor of Religion Studies, Lehigh University

Dr. Ferruh Yilmaz       

Professor of Communication, Tulane University

Amina Zarrugh           

PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin

Lotte Lent       

Assistant Director, Museum Education Program, Master of Arts in Teaching in Museum Education, The George Washington University

Sheila Musaji

Editor, The American Muslim

Bishop John Bryson Chane   

Senior Advisor, Inter-Faith Relations, Washington National Cathedral

Dr Sven Schottmann

Research Fellow, Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Melbourne

Fahim Qazi     

Linguist, Author, Founder of Quranic Linguistics Institute (QuranicLinguistics.com)

Farah El-Sharif           

Doctoral Student, Harvard University

Dr.Umut Kedikli           

Karabuk University, Turkey

James Quesada, Ph.D.           

Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University

Dr. Muqtedar Khan     

Associate Professor, University of Delaware

Dr. Faegheh Shirazi  

Professor of Islamic Studies

Assist. Prof. Sule Albayrak    

Sociology of Religion, Marmara University

Zainab Kabba

PhD Candidate, Oxford University

Dr. Nabeel Khudairi 

President (2007), Islamic Council of New England

Dr. Nada Moumtaz      

Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University

Dr. Hanadi Al-Samman           

Associate Professor of Arabic, Unjversity of Virginia

Shareda Hosein         

Association of Muslim Chaplains

Dr. Raihani      

Senior Lecturer, Suska State Islamic University

Evelyn Alsultany        

Associate Professor of Arab American Studies and American Culture, University of Michigan

Dr. Charles E. Butterworth     

Emeritus Professor, Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland

Dr. Gizem Zencirci     

Professor of Political Science, Providence College

Dr. Jennifer Cohen     

Assistant Professor of Economics, Whitman College

Dr. Alparslan Acikgenc          

Professor of Philosophy, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

Dr. Sudarnoto Abdul Hakim    

Professor of Islamic History, State Islamic University Jakarta

Jessica Winegar        

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University

Kimberly Carter          

Educator, Muslim Educational Trust

Muhammad Nasrum 

Lecturer in Anthropology of Religion, Tadulako University

LCDR Patrick W. Ryan, USN (Ret) 

Director, Saudi-US Relations Information Service (SUSRIS.com)

Dr. Ahmed Soboh       

Religious Director

Dr. Adis Duderija        

Senior Lecturer Gender and Islam

Dr. Hanan Elsayed     

Professor of French and Arabic, Occidental College

Yaseen Noorani         

Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona

Dr. David Wesley       

PhD Anthropology, Tel Aviv University

Dr. M. Nadeem Mirza  

Assistant Professor Political Science, QAU Islamabad

Dr. Shale Brownstein 

Columbia University

Gürkan Uygun            

Boğaziçi University

Dr William Shepard 

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Retired, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Sabrina Behrens, M.A.           

University Assistant of Islamic Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen

Dr. Andreas Goerke   

Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh

Dr Sadek Hamid          

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Samuel Barry

Ph. D. Student, University of Manchester

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd        

Assoc. Professor of Political Science and Religious Studies

Dr. Brian D. McLaren              

Author, Speaker

Imam Taalib Mahdee

Imam, Masjid al-Qur`aan

Dr. Amelia Klein          

Professor Emerita, Wheelock College

Luis Romero 

Graduate Student, University of Texas

Veliye Ay       

Lecturer of Turkish, George Mason University

Dr. Wijdan Al-Hashemi           

Art Historian, University of Jordan

Abla Oudeh    

Teacher of Arabic, University of Edinburgh

Şaban Teoman Duralı

Philosophy Professor Dr, University of Istanbul

James Clifford

Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. William O. Beeman            

Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Dr. Haiyun Ma

Frostburg State University

Dr. Lisa Rofel

Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Eric Adamcik

Student and Interfaith Organizer, Rhodes College

Vanita Seth    

Associate Professor

Abdullah al-Ahsan     

Professor of Comparative Civilization. International Islamic University Mlaysia

Alexander Wamboldt Graduate Student of Anthropology, Princeton University

Dr. Zohreh Sullivan    

Professor Emerita,  Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Nuri TINAZ            

Associate Professor of Sociology

Abdullah al-Ahsan     

Professor of Comparative Civilization, International Islamic University Malaysia

Nathan Lean 

Georgetown University

Dr. Kendra Salois       

Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Maryland, College Park

Dr. Eva Woods           

Professor of Hispanic Studies

Lynn Cole       

Interactive Exhibits Supervisor, Queens Library`s Children`s Library Discovery Center

Dr. Sevcan Ozturk     

Dr., University of Manchester

Prof. Karim H. Karim

Director, Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam and Professor of Communication Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Ian Simpson    

PhD Candidate, Stanford University

Penelope Taylor         

Education Dept., Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Haydar ORUÇ             

University of Sakarya, Turkey

Olivia Edlund

Education and Outreach Manager, Philadelphia`s Magic Gardens

Elif H. Aynaci

PhD Researcher in Religions and Theology, The University of Manchester, UK

Dr. Alice L. Laffey      

Associate Professor of Religion, College of the Holy Cross

Troy Livingston          

Senior Museum Executive

Alexa Fairchild           

School Programs Manager, Brooklyn Museum

Dr. Jeffrey Grabill       

Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, Michigan State University

Dr. Megan Thomas     

Associate Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jennifer L. Derr          

Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. George Waterston            

Asst. Prof., French (retired)

Dr. Gregory E. O`Malley          

Associate Professor of History, University of California Santa Cruz

Dr. Jaideep Singh       

Co-Founder, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF)

Ozge Girit Heck          

Ithaca College

Kelly Bishop 

Director of Family and Public Programs, Orange County Museum of Art

Esha Pillay      

San Francisco State University

Dr. Abdur Rab

Independent Researcher, author

Dr. Shane Minkin        

Asst. Prof. of History, UMass Lowell

Dr. Laurie Brand         

Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies, University of Southern California

Summiya Ilyas            

Education Assistant, Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

Jigna Desai     

Professor, University of Minnesota

Tavleen Kaur

Graduate Student, UC Irvine

Alex Lubin      

Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico

Charlotte Karem Albrecht

Postdoctoral Fellow in Women`s Studies, Denison University

Julie Ghabeh

University of Colorado

Dr. Noor Borbieva

Assistant Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Ré Phillips

Visiting Scholar, Sun Yat-Sen University

Ebru Morgul    

International Islamic University Malaysia

Eric Faust       

Qatar University

Smail Fenni

Islamic Society Of Boston, Director

Zaid Shakir

Professor, Zaytuna College

Nancy Khalil

Anthropology Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University

Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu           

PhD Candidate in Political Science, Boston University

Simran Jeet Singh

PhD Candidate, Columbia University

Alice Novak    

Masters in Art History University of Glasgow

Dr. Iqbal Unus 

Fellow, ACMCU, Georgetown University

Dr. Ali Murat Yel         

Professor of Anthropology, University of Marmara, Istanbul

Mahmut Aytekin          

Researcher, IHH Humanitarian and Social Research Center

Cornelis Hulsman       

General Director Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT), Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Rehenuma Asmi

Assistant Professor of International Studies

Sheikh Shaker Elsayed          

Imam, Dar Alhijrah Islamic Center, Falls Church, Virginia.

Saadia Yacoob          

Duke University

S. Leyla Gurkan

Assoc. Prof. Religious Studies, ISAM, Istanbul

Janserey Doğan         

Sabancı University, Turkey

Dr. Masoumeh Velayati          

Al Maktoum College of Higher Education

Salim Ayduz   

Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University

Dr. M. Ali Chaudry      

Part Time Lecturer, Rutgers University

Dr Arthur Bradley       

Reader in Comparative Literature, Lancaster University

Michelle Hartman        

Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University

Dr. Jeffry R. Halverson          

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Coastal Carolina University

Dr. Sherine Hamdy     

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University

Diana Coleman           

Doctoral Candidate, Arizona State University

Cristina Malcolmson   

Professor of English, Bates College

Sarah Irving    

Arabic tutor/doctoral researcher, University of Edinburgh

Lucia Stavig, M.S.      

Graduate Student, Arizona State

Dr. Christina Civantos

Professor of Literature, University of Miami

Dr. Yasmin Jiwani      

Professor of Communication Studies, Concordia University

Nawaaz Makhani       

Religious Studies Educator, Master of Arts, Education (Muslim Societies & Civilizations), Master of Teaching, Institute of Education, University of London, Institute of Ismaili Studies

Lara Deeb      

Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College

Areej Bashammakh    

PhD student

Whitney Bauman        

Assitant Professor of Religious Studies, Florida International University

Leti Volpp       

Professor of Law, UC Berkeley

Dr. Terrence W. Tilley

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Professor of Catholic Theology, Fordham University

Dr Ken Seigneurie      

Associate Professor of World Literature, Simon Fraser University

Prof. David Attwell     

Professor of English, University of York

Dr. Omnia El Shakry   

Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis

John Sniegocki           

Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Xavier University

Samer Alatout

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Eric Smoodin  

Professor of American Studies, UC Davis

Prof. Monica Ringer    

Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History, Amherst College

Dr. Vernadette Gonzalez       

Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Prof. Khalid Hadeed   

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Kuwait University

Roya Amirsoleymani   Community Engagement Manager, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Instructor, Art Dept, Portland State University

Christa Salamandra    

Associate Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York

Sunaina Maira

Professor, Asian American Studies, UC Davis

Dr. Ravza Kavakci-Kan          

Lecturer in Political Science, Hasan Kalyoncu University

Baki Tezcan   

Associate Professor of History, and Religious Studies; Director, Middle East/South

Asia Studies Program; University of California, Davis

David Palumbo-Liu      

Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University

Dr. Karen K. Kosasa  

Director of Museums Studies Graduate Certificate; Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Hawaii

Naoko Shibusawa      

Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Brown University

Prof. David Simpson   

English, UC-Davis

Dr. Margaret Ferguson           

Professor of English, University of California at Davis

Dr. Jennifer Wicke      

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia

Anne Norton   

Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Caitlyn Collins 

PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Kadir Yildirim         

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Furman University

Cheryl Higashida        

Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr Katherine Bullock   

Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto at Mississauga

Natasha Raheja          

PhD Candidate, Anthropology, New York University

Dr. Regina Day Langhout       

Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz

Roshni Rustomji-Kerns           

Professor Emeritus Sonoma State University

Dr. Laura A. Winkiel   

Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado

Dr. Faiza Hirji  

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, McMaster University

Jesica Siham Fernandez        

PhD Candidate, UC Santa Cruz

Robert Majzler

PhD Candidate, UC Santa Cruz

Eric Fugeläng 

Chief Investigator for Museums and Diversity at the Swedish Exhibition Agency

Thomas Michel           

Guest Professor, Georgetown University

Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg

Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Şükran Acar   

Theology, Anadolu University

Dr. Mustafa Tuna       

Assistant Professor of Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture, Duke University

Douaa Sheet  

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Baruch College, CUNY

Ms. Helen Panagiotopoulos    

PhD Student of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

Professor Donna Landry       

Professor of English, University of Kent

Darice Westphal         

PhD Student, GC CUNY

Dr. Sahar Khamis       

Professor of Communication, University of Maryland

Dr. Sue J. Kim 

Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Ihsan Alkhatib 

Assistant Professor, Murray State University

Ryan M. Hamilton        

CUNY Graduate Center

Lydia Brassard          

Doctoral Student, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Naureen Aqueel         

Teaching Assistant, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University

Derek Ludovici           

PhD Student, Anthropology, CUNY

Susette Min    

Associate Professor, University of California, Davis

Dr. Sondra Hale          

Research Professor, Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Grace Kyungwon Hong   

Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender Studies

Dr. Neha Vora

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Lafayette College

Dr. Candace Fujikane 

Associate Professor of English, University of Hawaiʻi

Theodor Maghrak       

Doctoral Student, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Dr. Shahrough Akhavi

Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Dr. Gregory Lipton     

Part-time assistant professor of religious studies, Guilford College

Cihan Tekay   

PhD Student, CUNY Graduate Center

Dilara Demir    

Rutgers, State University of New Jersey

Dr. Zakia Salime         

Associate Professor

Kevin Chamow           

PhD, Sociology, Rutgers University

Alex Velez     

Anthropology Undergraduate, Lehman College

Thomas Plummer        

Professor of Anthropology, Queens College

Carrie Schwartz        

Assistant Curator of Education and Exhibits, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Gerald MacLean         

Professor

Vahid Dejwakh           

William and Mary Law School

Paul Lyons     

Professor of English

Elisa Facio      

Professor, CU Boulder-Ethnic Studies

Susette S. Min

Associate Professor, University of California, Davis