Abbas Kadhim is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Between 2003 and 2005, he taught courses on Islamic theology and ethics at Stanford University and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. From 2001 to 2005, he was an Instructor of Arabic language at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1999 to 2001, he taught Political Science at the Woodland Community College, Woodland, California. Professor Kadhim joined the Naval Postgraduate School in Fall 2005. Professor Kadhim is a member of the editorial board of History Compass.