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Saeed Khan is an Associate Professor of Teaching in Near Eastern Studies within the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University, where he contributes to Social Science through his expertise in global and regional studies. He serves as Director of Global Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Citizenship, and Lecturer in the Department of History. Khan also holds adjunct professor positions in Islamic Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and Rochester College. Previously, he taught modern Middle Eastern and world history at Henry Ford College and Eastern Michigan University. Holding a JD from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Khan is a PhD candidate at Wayne State University. His teaching portfolio includes courses such as The Age of Islamic Empires: 600-1600, The Modern Middle East, Introduction to Global Issues and Institutions, Twentieth Century Middle East, Orientalism and Occidentalism, Past and Present, and Islam and the Challenge of Modernity.

Khan's research specializations include Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Islamic civilizations, history of Islamic political thought, U.S. policy, globalization's impact on Muslim communities, Islamophobia, European and North American Muslim diasporas, and Islamic bioethics. Key publications encompass the anthology Global Studies: A Reader on Issues and Institutions; the co-authored book What’s Going On Here? US Experiences of Islamophobia Between Obama and Trump; a chapter on Muslim women and the headscarf in Negotiating Boundaries? Identities, Sexualities, Diversities (Cambridge Scholars Press); “Orientalism and Western Concepts of Race and Difference in Science” in the Encyclopedia of the Human Genome (Nature Publishing Group); entries in the Encyclopedia of Islam in America (Harvard University Press) and Brill’s Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture; and the Harvard Pluralism Project study “Impact of the Iraq Crisis upon the Interaction of Detroit’s Iraqi Religious Communities.” Khan received recognition for faculty excellence at Wayne State University’s 2024 Academic Recognition Ceremony. He is a frequent media contributor to C-SPAN, NPR, Voice of America, BBC, and others, has consulted U.S. and UK governments on Muslim communities and served as a consultant for the U.S.-Arab Economic Forum, and has delivered invited lectures at Harvard, Yale, Duke, University of Michigan, Brookings Institution, and universities in Turkey, UAE, and the UK. Additionally, he founded the Center for the Study of Trans-Atlantic Diasporas and participates in interfaith initiatives including the National Conference on Community and Justice Interfaith Scholars Colloquium and the Doha Conference on Religious Dialogue.