Signatories

Signatories as of February 3, 2 p.m.

1. Melanie Adrian, Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, Carleton University
2. Mehnaz M. Afridi, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Director, Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center, Manhattan College, NY
3. Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
4. Rafiq R. Ajani, Research Officer Ethics, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
5. Sayed Hassan Akhlaq, Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Culture and Values, Catholic University of America
6. Kecia Ali, Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University
7. Muhamad Ali, Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of California, Riverside
8. Evelyn Alsultany, Director of Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan
9. Brenda Anderson, Luther College at the University of Regina, Canada
10. Vivienne SM. Angeles, Associate Professor of Religion, La Salle University
11. Zayde Antrim, Associate Professor of History and International Studies, Trinity College (CT)
12. Walter Armbrust, Albert Hourani Fellow of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Associate Professor, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
13. Barbara Aswad, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Wayne State University
14. Paola Bacchetta. Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Co-Chair: Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Project; University of California, Berkeley
15. Gabeba Baderoon, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and African Studies, Pennsylvania State University
16. Carla Bellamy, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Baruch College, City University of New York
17. Clinton Bennett, SUNY New Paltz
18. Jonathan P Berkley, Professor of History, Davidson College
19. Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
20. Whitney Bodman, Associate Prof. of Comparative Religion, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
21. Antoine Borrut, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland
22. Jonathan E. Brockopp, Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University
23. Andrew Bush, Lecturer, Writing Program, New York University Abu Dhabi
24. Amila Buturovic, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Humanities, York University, Toronto
25. Juan E. Campo, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
26. Andrea Lee Castonguay, Ph.D Candidate, Fulbright Scholar (Morocco), University of Notre Dame; Moroccan-Amercian Commission for Education and Cultural Exchange (MACECE)
27. Brian A. Catlos, Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
28. Claire Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Global Literature, University of York
29. Ayesha S. Chaudhry, Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice, University of British Columbia
30. Julia Clancy-Smith, Regents Professor of Middle East History, Department of History, University of Arizona
31. Frederick Colby, Associate Professor and Head of Religious Studies, University of Oregon
32. Lindsey Conklin, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
33. Rosemary Corbett, Visiting Professor, Bard Prison Initiative
34. Karen Culcasi, Associate Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
35. Edward E. Curtis IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts & Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
36. Timothy P. Daniels, Professor of Anthropology, Hofstra University
37. Rochelle Davis, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University
38. Lara Deeb, Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College
39. Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Professor of Religion, Wake Forest University
40. Carl W. Ernst, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
41. Caleb Iyer Elfenbein, Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies, Grinnell College
42. Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis
43. Ahmed El Shamsy, Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Chicago
44. Sarah Eltantawi, Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion and Islamic Studies, Evergreen State College
45. John L Esposito, University Professor & Founding Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
46. Tessa Farmer, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Virginia
47. Heather Ferguson, Assistant Professor of Middle East and Ottoman History, Claremont McKenna College
48. Steven Fink, Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy & Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
49. Melissa Finn, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo
50. David M. Freidenreich, Pulver Family Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Colby College
51. Adam R. Gaiser, Associate Professor of Religion, Florida State University
52. Nancy Gallagher, Professor Emerita, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
53. Noah Gardiner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina
54. Aisha Geissinger, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Carleton University (Canada)
55. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Associate Professor of History and Sociology, University of Illinois
56. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Professor of Religion & Humanities, Reed College
57. Alan Godlas, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Georgia
58. Seema Golestaneh, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
59. Camilo Gómez-Rivas, assistant professor of Mediterranean Studies, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
60. Megan Goodwin, Syracuse University
61. Zareena A Grewal, Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies, and Ethnicity Race & Migration, Yale University
62. Frank Griffel, Professor of Islamic Studies, Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University
63. Timothy Gutmann, PhD candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School
64. James M. Gustafson, Department of History, Indiana State University, Association for Iranian Studies Council
65. Charles G. Haberl, Associate Professor and Chair, African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
66. Najam Haider, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Barnard College/Columbia University
67. Chad Haines, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies & Global Studies, Arizona State University
68. Sondra Hale, Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Gender Studies, UCLA
69. Leor Halevi, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
70. Sumaiya Hamdani, Assoc. Prof., History, George Mason University
71. Emad Hamdeh, Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, Embry Riddle University
72. Salman Hameed, Director, Center for the Study of Science in Muslim Societies, Associate Professor of Integrated Science & Humanities, Hampshire College, MA
73. Juliane Hammer, Associate Professor  of Religious Studies, Kenan Rifai Scholar of Islamic Studies, UNC Chapel Hill
74. Irfana Hashmi, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Whittier College
75. Rosina Hassoun, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Saginaw Valley State University
76. Jennifer Heath, Independent scholar
77. Marcia Hermansen, Professor of Theology, Director Islamic World Studies, Loyola University Chicago
78. Jocelyn Hendrickson, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
79. Nathan Hofer, Assistant Professor of Islam, University of Missouri
80. Valerie J. Hoffman, Professor and Head, Department of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
81. Emil Homerin, Professor of Religion, University of Rochester
82. Justine Howe, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Case Western Reserve University
83. Amir Hussain, Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University
84. Brannon Ingram, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Northwestern University
85. Ralph Jaeckel, Lecturer Emeritus in Turkish Language, University of California, Los Angeles
86. Munir Jiwa, Associate Professor, Graduate Theological Union
87. Michael Jerryson, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Youngstown State University
88. David L. Johnston, Visiting Scholar, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
89. Mohsen Kadivar, Research Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Duke University; Fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg at Berlin
90. Amy Kallander, Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University
91. Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Professor of History, University of Maryland
92. Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona College
93. Marion Katz, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU
94. Nadia Inji Khan, PhD candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School
95. Sarah J King, Religious Studies Program Coordinator, Associate Professor of Liberal Studies, Grand Valley State University
96. Michael Muhammad Knight, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Kenyon College
97. Kathryn Kueny, Professor of Theology, Director, Middle East Studies Program, Director, Religious Studies Program, Fordham University
98. Lance D. Laird, Th.D., Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
99. Amer Latif, Marlboro College
100. Christopher Lee, Department of Religious Studies and Theology, Canisius College
101. Mara Leichtman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Muslim Studies Program, Michigan State University
102. Mark Andrew Levine, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Irvine
103. Gregory A. Lipton, Berg Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Macalester College
104. Erika Loeffler, E.E.Meader Professor (emer.) of Anthropology, Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Western Michigan University
105. Dominic Longo, Director, Muslim-Christian Dialogue Center and Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
106. Joseph E. Lowry, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
107. Paul M Lubeck, Acting Director, African Studies Program, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
108. Jane McAuliffe, general editor, The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an
109. Richard McGregor, Associate Professor of Religion & Islamic Studies, Vanderbilt University
110. Ellen McLarney, Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
111. Saba Mahmood, Professor, University of California Berkeley
112. Debra Majeed, Beloit College
113. Roxanne D Marcotte, Associate Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) (Canada)
114. Hamid Mavani, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School, Claremont School of Theology
115. Brinkley Messick, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
116. Flagg Miller, Professor of Religious Studies, The University of California, Davis
117. Matthew Thomas Miller, Roshan Institute Research Fellow, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland
118. Minoo Moallem, Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley
119. Jawid Mojaddedi,  Professor of Religion, Rutgers University
120. Kathleen Moore, Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
121. Ebrahim Moosa, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame
122. Robert Morrison, Professor of Religion, Bowdoin College
123. Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University
124. Ahlam Muhtaseb, Professor of Communication Studies, Interim Director, Center for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, California State University, San Bernardino
125. Kathleen Nadeau, Department of Anthropology, California State University
126. Martin Nguyen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Faculty Chair for Diversity, Fairfield University
127. Lauren E. Osborne, Assistant Professor of Religion, Whitman College
128. Matthew Pierce, Assistant Professor of Religion, Centre College
129. Michael Pregill, Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Boston University
130. Ismail Poonawala, Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, UCLA
131. James Quesada, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University
132. Asifa Quraishi-Landes, University of Wisconsin Law School
133. Ruby Ramji, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Cape Breton University
134. Junaid Rana, Associate Head, Department of Asian American Studies, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
135. John Renard, Professor of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University
136. Lisa Rofel, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
137. Robert Rozehnal, Associate Professor of Religion Studies, Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh University
138. Erin Runions, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Pomona College
139. Danilyn Rutherford, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
140. Omid Safi, Professor of Islamic Studies, Duke University
141. Christa Salamandra, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The City University of New York
142. Walid Saleh, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Toronto
143. Zakia Salime, Associate Professor, Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers, Visiting Associate Professor at Yale
144. Noah Salomon, Associate Professor of Religion, Director of Middle East Studies, Carleton College
145. Kristin Zahra Sands, Department of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College
146. Zeki Saritoprak, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, John Carroll University
147. Barbara R. von Schlegell, Visiting Associate Professor of Classics (former), University of Connecticut
148. Vernon James Schubel, Professor of Religious Studies, Asian Studies and Islamic Civilization and Cultures, Kenyon College
149. Rachel Scott, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Virginia Tech
150. Fatima Seedat, PhD, Lecturer and Co-ordinator Gender, Religion and Health Programme, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
151. May Seikaly, Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History, Wayne State University
152. Jennifer Selby, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada)
153. William Shepard, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Retired, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
154. Laury Silvers, Sessional Lecturer, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
155. Simran Jeet Singh, Assistant Professor of Religion, Trinity University
156. Susan Slyomovics, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA
157. Yushau Sodiq, Texas Christian University
158. Dicky Sofjan, Ph.D., Core Doctoral Faculty, Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS)
159. Emilio Spadola, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Colgate University; President, Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association
160. Andrea L. Stanton, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Denver
161. Harvey Stark, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, California State University, Sacramento
162. Justin Stearns, Associate Professor, Arab Crossroads Studies, Head of Arab Crossroads Studies Program, NYU-Abu Dhabi
163. Amina M. Steinfels, Associate Professor of Religion, Mount Holyoke College
164. Lior B. Sternfeld, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State University
165. Mairaj Syed, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
166. Alfons H Teipen, Associate Professor of Religion, Furman University
167. Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, George Mason University
168. Baki Tezcan, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis
169. Sarra Tlili, Associate Professor, University of Florida
170. Sufia Mendez Uddin, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Connecticut College
171. Rachana Rao Umashankar, Assistant Professor, Iona College
172. Daniel M. Varisco, Qatar University
173. Sherry Vatter, Lecturer Emerita of History, California State University, Long Beach
174. Nargis Virani, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theological Union
175. Jeremy F. Walton, Research Group Leader, The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
176. Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Instructor in Religion, Vassar College
177. Stephanie Yep, Ph.D. Candidate in Religion, Emory University
178. Hayrettin Yucesoy, Faculty member, Washington University in St. Louis
179. Homayra Ziad, Ph.D., Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies
180. Jasmin Zine, Professor, Sociology & Muslim Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University