Academic Experts
We are honored to collaborate with our academic advisors, who bring a diversity of expertise and specialist knowledge of the subjects, themes, and time periods we cover. These scholars are involved in every stage of the creative process and are critical to ensuring historical accuracy and cultural sensitivity. We are grateful for their contributions.
Zain Abdullah
Independent Scholar, Curator, and Consultant. Associate Professor Emeritus of Religion & Society and Islamic Studies, Temple University.
Donna Auston
Foundation Anthropologist, Disciplinary Conversations & Public Programs at Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Edward E. Curtis IV
Millennium Chair of Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.
Sylvia Chan-Malik
Associate Professor, Departments of American and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University.
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Professor of Religion, Carleton College.
Zareena Grewal
Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies, and Anthropology, Yale University.
Specialist Advisor
Ali Asani
Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Studies, Harvard University.
Specialist Advisor
Denise Spellberg
Professor of History and Middle Eastern History, University of Texas at Austin.
Specialist Advisor
Sally Howell
Associate Professor of History. Director of the Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Specialist Advisor
Michael Gomez
Silver Professor, Professor of History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University.
Specialist Advisor
Precious Rasheeda Muhammad
Independent Scholar.
Specialist Advisor
Richard Brent Turner
Professor of African American Religious History, University of Iowa.