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Mohsen Kadivar

Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
403 Chapel Drive, 118 Gray Bldg., Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708
Room 216 Gray Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment  

Available to Mentor


  • Masters
  • PhD

Advising & Mentoring


Ph.D. Co-Advisor

  • Muhammad Usama, Department of History, since Fall 2023

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member                  

  • Christopher W. Howel, The history of Intelligent Design in the United States, Duke, Ph.D., March 2021
  • Matt Lynch, A Persian Qur’an? The Masnavi-e Ma’navi as Scripture, UNC-Chapel Hill, Ph.D., December 2018
  • Rose Aslan, “From Body to Shrine: The Construction of Sacred Space at the Grave of `Ali ibn Abi Talib in Najaf.” UNC-Chapel Hill, Ph.D., May 2014

Master’s Adviser

  • César A. Palacios Moscoso, since Fall 2022
  • Arpan Bhandari, Fall 2018
  • Daniel Spisak, Spring 2015
  • Lauren Wall, Spring 2014

Undergraduate Adviser

  • Tyler Chery, November 2017 - December 2020 

Undergraduate Honors Thesis advisor

  • Abdul Rahman Abdul Latif, “Darwinism in Islam,” Duke University, April 2016