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Mayte Green-Mercado

Assistant Professor of History

Mayte Green-Mercado is a founding co-director of the Mediterranean Displacements Project. Her work centers on the connected histories of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Mediterranean. Her first book examined


Gary D. Farney

Associate Professor of History

Prof. Gary D. Farney is a specialist in the ancient Mediterranean, his research focusing on the archaeology of Italy and ancient Mediterranean ethnic identity. Over his career he has been


Brian Phillips Murphy

Associate Professor of History

Brian Philips Murphy is a historian of early America whose current research focuses on the political ecology of the Passaic River, where the rise of American industrialization was directly linked


Salam Al Kuntar

Lecturing Assistant Professor of Classics and Assistant Dean of Middle Eastern Affairs at Rutgers Global

Salam Al Kuntar is Lecturing Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Rutgers New-Brunswick’s Department of Classics and Assistant Dean of Middle Eastern Affairs at Rutgers Global. She worked at the Directorate General of


Prof. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular

Assistant Professor of History

Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers-Newark specializing in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Her research focuses on the history of the Ottoman Empire and southeastern Europe.


Prof. Tim Raphael

Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, Director of Newest Americans, and the Center for Migration and the Global City

Tim Raphael is a Professor in the Department of Arts Culture and Media and Director of the ExternalCenter for Migration and the Global City and ExternalNewest Americans. He has devised,


Prof. Nükhet Varlık

Associate Professor of History

Associate Professor of History. She is a historian of the Ottoman Empire interested in disease, medicine, and public health. Her first book, Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean


Prof. Javier Castro Ibaseta

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers–Newark. Prof. Castro Ibaseta is a historian of early modern Spanish literature and culture. His first book project, titled Beware the Poetry: Political