Languages: Arabic, French, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Turkish (modern and Ottoman), Urdu, Chaghatay, German, Spanish
Overseas Research Experience: Bangladesh, Egypt, France, India, Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, Uzbekistan
Representative Awards and Distinctions: Guggenheim Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Honorary M.A. - Amherst College
B.A. Stanford University (1983)
M.A. University of Pennsylvania (1985)
M.A. Yale University (1987)
Ph.D. Yale University (1991)
Islamic thought and religious history; Religion and Material Culture; Popular Culture in South Asia and Turkey; Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Scholarly Literature; Qur'anic Studies
Islam in the Modern World, Sufism, Qur'anic Studies, Islamic Metaphysics, Islam and the Religious Image
Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception and Practice in Islam; On Wings of Diesel: Identity, Imagination and Truck Decoration in Pakistan; Key Themes for the Study of Islam; "The Taliban, Bamian and Revisionist Iconoclasm;" "Sufi Dhikr Between Meditation and Prayer."