Liew, associate head of undergraduate studies, is a scholar of the premodern Islamic world. His research includes the history of Islamic political thought and Islamic scholarly and intellectual culture.

Tanvir Ahmed works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Islam with an eye toward critical historiography, rebellion, and thaumaturgy.

Carolina Mendoza-Ahmed is a scholar of Islam as it is imagined through the Hispanophone world, especially via contact with Arabic and Persian.