Moneera al-Ghadeer
Assistant Professor, African Languages & Literature, Middle East Studies
1468 Van Hise Hall
(608) 262-5758 | malghadeer@wisc.edu
Jeffrey
D. Hardin
Professor, Zoology , Religious Studies
327 Zoology Research Building
(608) 262-9634 | (608) 262-2520
jdhardin@wisc.edu
Cynthia Miller
Professor, Hebrew and Semitic Studies, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies
1344 Van Hise Hall
(608) 262-9785 | clmiller2@wisc.edu
Cynthia Miller specializes in the syntax and pragmatics of Classical Hebrew
and the related Northwest Semitic languages. She is particularly interested
in moving the field of traditional Semitic philology to an understanding
of, and appreciation for, contemporary linguistic approaches to the study
of ancient texts. She received her PhD with honors in 1992 from the University
of Chicago in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
and the Department of Linguistics (joint degree).
David
O. Morgan
Professor, History, Middle East Studies, Religious Studies
4113 Mosse Humanities Building
(608) 263-1826 | domorgan@wisc.edu
David Morgan has been Professor of History and Religious Studies at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1999, and was Director of its Middle
East Studies Program, 2002-6. He specializes in the history of Iran and
Central Asia during the Islamic period. He is BA Oxford and PhD London,
and was on the faculty of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London, for 24 years before coming to Madison.
Ronald
L. Numbers
Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine,
Religious Studies
1432 Medical Sciences Center
608-262-3701 | 608-262-5707
rnumbers@med.wisc.edu
Ronald L. Numbers has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for
over three decades. He has written or edited more than two dozen books,
including, most recently, Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard University
Press, 1998), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion,
and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 1999), co-edited with John
Stenhouse, When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago
Press, 2003), co-edited with David Lindberg; and Science and Christianity
in Pulpit and Pew (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). For five
years (1989-1993) he edited Isis, the flagship journal of the history of
science. He is writing a history of science in America (for Basic Books),
editing a series of monographs on the history of medicine, science, and
religion for the Johns Hopkins University Press, and co-editing, with David
Lindberg, the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. A former
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, he is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and a member of the International Academy of the History of Science.
He is a past president of both the History of Science Society and the American
Society of Church History. In 2005 he was elected to a four-year term as
president of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division
of History of Science and Technology.
Asifa
Quraishi
Assistant Professor, Law School, Middle East Studies
5103 Law Building
aquraishi@wisc.edu
Asifa Quraishi is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
where she teaches courses in Islamic law and U.S. Constitutional Law. She
has studied at Harvard Law School (SJD 2006), Columbia University (LLM 1998),
University of California Davis (JD 1992) and University of California Berkeley
(BA 1988). She has served as law clerk in the Ninth Circuit United States
federal courts and has published in the areas of Islamic law and women,
and comparative legal theory. She is also a founding Board member
of the National Association of Muslim Lawyers (NAML), its sister organization,
Muslim Advocates, and American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism (AMILA).
She is an associate of the Muslim Women's League, and has served as president
and Board member of Karamah: Muslim Women for Lawyers for Human Rights.
Simone Schweber
Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Jewish Studies,
Religious Studies
514f Teacher Education
sschweber@wisc.edu
