James Hart is an Assistant Professor of the non-degree General Education program at the American University of Central Asia and a Ph.D. candidate in Ancient Religions at Leiden University (Netherlands). He holds a Master of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University (2001, USA) and a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Languages from the University of Montana (1998, USA). 

James joined AUCA in 2018 as a full-time lecturer in General Education. Before AUCA, he was an instructor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimania (AUIS), where he taught a three to four-semester introduction to the liberal arts/introduction to the humanities course sequence called ‘Civilization,’ as well as ‘World Religions,’ ‘the History of the Middle East,’ and ‘Empires: Origins.’ He also taught university-level composition courses. Before AUIS, James taught at the American University of Afghanistan, offering composition courses, introduction to humanities courses, and 'the Humanities of the Islamic World' courses.