
Faculty
Program Director

Seth Cantey
Associate Professor of Politics
Huntley 302
540-458-8019
canteys@wlu.edu
Faculty

Jumana Al-Ahmad
Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic
CGL 219
540-458-4819
jalahmad@wlu.edu

Kameliya N. Atanasova
Assistant Professor of Religion
Tucker 207
540-458-8797
atanasovak@wlu.edu

Aliaa Bassiouny
Lawrence Term Associate Professor of Finance
Huntley 121B
540-458-8719
abassiouny@wlu.edu

Niels-Hugo Blunch
Professor of Economics
Huntley 113
540-458-8619
blunchn@wlu.edu

Alexandra Brown
Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor in Bible
Tucker 206
540-458-8789
browna@wlu.edu
Early Christian Writings and Culture from the New Testament to Late Antiquity, Bible and Film, Pilgrimage, Mysticism, Gender and Religion, Early Irish Religion, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion

Anthony (Antoine) Edwards
Associate Professor of Arabic
Ruscio Center for Global Learning 238
540-458-8396
edwardsa@wlu.edu

Stuart Gray
Associate Professor of Politics
Huntley 315
540-458-5879
grays@wlu.edu

Theodore Van Loan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
Wilson Hall 3015
540-458-8858
tvanloan@wlu.edu
Islamic Art

Timothy Lubin
Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
Tucker 204
540-458-8146
lubint@wlu.edu
History of religion and law of South and Southeast Asia, working on texts and inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Old Javanese, and Old Tamil; National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 2020-2021 (h)

Hafsa Oubou
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Sociology and Anthropology
540-458-8798
houbou@wlu.edu

Shikha Silwal
Associate Professor of Economics
Holekamp 213
540-458-8256
silwals@wlu.edu

Pooja Thakur-Wernz
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Huntley 126
540-458-8932
pthakur-wernz@wlu.edu
Teaching Assistant

Aseel Atalla
Arabic Teaching Assistant
CGL 119
540-458-4765
aatalla@mail.wlu.edu
Library Support

Emily Cook
Assistant Professor and Research and Instruction Librarian
James G. Leyburn Library M37
540-458-8654
cooke@wlu.edu
Staff

Kerri Ritter
Administrative Assistant
Tucker 103
540-458-8180
ritterk@wlu.edu