Dr. French is also the Faculty Director of the Miami in Oman & UAE winter term program. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, his A.M. in Islamic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, and his B.A. from Centre College in Religion. Although his background is in Islamic Law, Dr. French currently studies the jurisprudence of al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State. If he isn't listening to baseball on the radio, he's waiting for pitchers and catchers to report.