Prolific author and a professor of the history of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at Georgetown University, Haddad specializes in contemporary Islamic issues, women in Islam, and Islam in America. During her career, Haddad has taught in a number of universities in North America and abroad, including several countries in the Middle East as well as India and Africa. She has edited or authorized more than a dozen books, among them, The Muslims in America and Islam, Gender and Social Change. With John Esposito, Haddad co-edited The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World in 1995.

Haddad is active in a wide array of professional organizations, and sits on several advisory boards related to her field of expertise, most notably the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, the Arab-American Anti-discrimination Committee and the Middle East Studies Association.

Yvonne Y. Haddad
Professor in the School of Foreign Service
B.A., Beirut College for Women;
M.R.E., Boston University;
M.A., University of Wisconsin;
Ph.D., Hartford Seminary

Faculty Information
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad BA, MRE, MA, PhD
Professor of Christian-Muslim Relations, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Professor of Islamic History, History Office Phone: 202-687-2575
E-mail address: haddady@georgetown.edu
URL: www.cmcu.net

Areas of Expertise:
IMMIGRATION > Middle East
IMMIGRATION > Europe
ISLAM > [General]
ISLAM > Women
ISLAM > American, Culture and Society
ISLAM > Europe Yvonne Haddad, Ph.D. (Ph.D., Hartford Seminary)
Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Office: ICC 167
Phone: 202-687-2575
Email: haddady@georgetown.edu

Yvonne Haddad’s fields of expertise include twentieth-century Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; and Islam in North America and the West. Currently, Professor Haddad is conducting research on Muslims in the West and on Islamic Revolutionary Movements. She also teaches courses on Muslim-Christian Relations and Arab Intellectuals.

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