Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-6372
banguraa@usfca.edu

Ahmed Bangura

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta in Canada, and specializes in the Orientalist tradition as it pertains to African literature.

Tel:(415) 422-5176
ahidayatullah@usfca.edu

Aysha Hidayatullah

Assistant Professor

Aysha Hidayatullah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her areas of specialization are Islam, gender, and sexuality. Additionally, Aysha is working on her first book, based on her dissertation "Women Trustees of Allah: Methods, Limits, and Possibilities of Feminist Theology in Islam." Aysha received a Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara and came to USF in 2008.

Tel:(415) 422-2378
ajhahntapper@usfca.edu

Aaron Tapper

Assistant Professor

Aaron J. Hahn Tapper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. His interdisciplinary interests are American Jews, American Muslims, comparative religions, history of religions, the interplay between politics and religion and the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Additionally, Professor Hahn Tapper recently co-edited the volume Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities. He is the Director and Chair of the SWIG Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice. Dr. Hahn Tapper earned his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara and came to USF in 2007.

Tel:(415) 422-4377
trzaman@usfca.edu

Taymiya Zaman

Assistant Professor

Taymiya received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she also taught as a Graduate Student Instructor. While at Ann Arbor, she was distinguished with a Rackham Humanities Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation, "Inscribing Empire: Family and Sovereign Authority in Mughal Memoirs, 1526-1707" as well as a Huetwell Fellowship in History. She has also received several Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships to study Persian and Urdu, and for research in Pakistan, where she grew up.

Tel:(415) 422-6981
zunes@usfca.edu

Stephen Zunes

Professor

Stephen Zunes has been at USF since 1995, teaching courses on the politics of Middle East and other regions, nonviolence, conflict resolution, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization for the Politics department, the International Studies major, and the Peace & Justice Studies minor, as well as the Middle Eastern Studies minor, for which he serves as program director.