Near Eastern Studies Faculty
Rahaf Al-Masri, Lecturer, Arabic Language
Ross Brann, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Director of Jewish Studies Program
Yomna Chami, Lecturer, Arabic Language
Ziad Fahmy, Assistant Professor, Modern Middle East History
Iago Gocheleishvili, Lecturer, Persian Studies
Kim Haines-Eitzen, H. Stanley Krusen Professor of World Religions, Department Chair
Lori Khatchadourian, Assistant Professor, Archaeology
Christopher M. Monroe, Sr. Lecturer, Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Studies; Nautical Archaeology
Lauren Monroe, Associate Professor, Hebrew Bible
Ahmed Muhamed, Lecturer, Arabic Language
David I. Owen, Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology; Assyriology; Biblical History and Archaeology; Maritime History and Archaeology
David S. Patel, Assistant Professor, Government
David S. Powers, Professor, Islamic History and Law, Director of Graduate Studies
Cynthia Robinson, Associate Professor, History of Art and Archaeology, Medieval and Islamic Art
Nava Scharf, Sr. Lecturer, Hebrew Language, Coordinator Hebrew Language Program
Shalom Shoer, Sr. Lecturer, Hebrew Language
Deborah Starr, Associate Professor, Modern Arabic and Hebrew literature; Critical Theory; Middle Eastern Film
Jonathan Tenney, Assistant Professor, Ancient Near East, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Shawkat M. Toorawa, Associate Professor, Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies
Makda Weatherspoon, Lecturer, Arabic Language
Munther Younes, Reis Senior Lecturer in Arabic language and linguistics, Director, Arabic Language Program
Post-doctoral Fellows and Visitors
Alexandra Kleinerman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Assyriology
Nihan Toklu, Fullbright Scholar, Turkish language Instructor
Adjunct Faculty
Jeffrey Zorn, Biblical Archaeology
NES Staff
Julie Graham
Administrator
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Christianne Capalongo
Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinator
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Joshua Porter
Administrative Assistant
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Laura Johnson-Kelly
Collections Specialist
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Graduate Students
Kyle Anderson (Modern Middle Eastern History)
Adam Bursi (Late Antiquity)
Atoor Lawandow (Arabic Literature)
Hamza Mahmood Zafer (Arabic and Islamic Studies)
Eilis Monahan (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology)
Dustin Nash (Biblical Studies)
Andrew Simon (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies)