Brannon Wheeler
Director, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
Professor, Department of History
Islam and History of Religions
PhD University of Chicago
Brannon Wheeler is the founding Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, and Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. He received his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1993 and has been a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, the College of Shariah and Islamic Studies at Kuwait University, and the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Bergen in Norway. Prof. Wheeler was the Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Jordan, al-Azhar University in Egypt, and the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs in Oman. He was the Senior Fellow at the American Centers for Oriental Research in Jordan, a Fellow at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London, a Research Fellow at the American Institue of Maghreb Studies in Tunisia, and the Senior Islamicist-in-Residence at the American Research Center in Egypt. Prof. Wheeler has authored and edited seven books including his most recent Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (University of Chicago, 2006). He is the Editor of the book series and journal of Comparative Islamic Studies, and has been the guest Editor of Islamic Law and Society, and al-Tasamoh journal. Prof. Wheeler's publications have appeared in Oman, UK, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Jordan, Russia, Kuwait, Italy, and Japan. He has also presented papers and given lectures in Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Singapore, Turkey, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Morocco.
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