The Middle East Center offers regional scholar status, at its discretion, to researchers, scholars and post-secondary educators whose work deals substantially with the Middle East or North Africa, and who make a commitment to engage actively with our programs and initiatives. For further details about how to become a regional scholar, please click here.

Samer Abboud
Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University

Yasemin Akış
Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, Villanova University

Ahmad Al-Sholi
PhD candidate, Stony Brook University

Osman Balkan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College Senior Fellow, Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, UPenn
Jennie Bradbury
Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College

Megan Brown
Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College

Juan Castrillón
Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communications

Pardis Dabashi
Assistant Professor of Literature, Bryn Mawr College

Sotirios Dimitriadis
Post-doctoral fellow, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Jennifer Dixon
Associate Professor of Political Science, Villanova University