Faculty

Leadership

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Ross Brann

Morris Escoll 1916 Director of Jewish Studies Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department Faculty

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Ross Brann

Morris Escoll 1916 Director of Jewish Studies Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Parisa Vaziri

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Studies

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Munther A. Younes

Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Stephen H. Weiss Provost Teaching Fellow Director of Arabic Program

Post Docs

Retired Faculty

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David I. Owen

Bernard and Jane Schapiro Emeritus Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Graduate Field Faculty

  • Lauren Monroe, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
    • Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; Ancient Israel
  • Begüm Adalet, Assistant Professor
    • Research Interests: Anticolonial thought, transnationalism, the Cold War, development, the built environment, US and the Middle East
  • Esra Akcan, Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory
    • Research Interests: Global and intertwined histories of architecture, Turkey, migration and diaspora studies
  • Benjamin Anderson, Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: Byzantine art, architecture, and visual culture; architecture and archaeology of late antique and medieval Anatolia.
  • Caitie Barrett, Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: classical archaeology; Egyptology
  • Dina Bishara, Assistant Professor
    • Research Interests: Social and protest movements, state labor relations, labor and employment in the Middle East and North Africa, authoritarianism, and Middle East politics.
  • Alexandra Blackman, Assistant Professor
    • Research Interests: Politics of the Middle East (gender; political party development; the evolution of authoritarian institutions; the role of foreign and transnational forces in the region)
  • Jonathan Aaron Boyarin, Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies
    • Research Interests: Jewish ethnography, East European Jewish culture, migration, comparative diaspora, collective memory, politics of identity, textuality and orality, temporalities
  • Ross Brann, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
    • Research Interests: Judeo-Islamic studies; Muslim Spain
  • Iftikhar Dadi, John H. Burris Professor
    • Research Interests: comparative modernities; critical and post-colonial theory; modern South Asian and Islamic Art
  • Ziad Fahmy, Professor
    • Research Interests: nationalism and state formation in the 19th- and 20th-century Middle East
  • Chiara Formichi, H. Stanley Krusen Professor of World Religions
    • Research Interests: history of Islam in southeast Asia; contemporary expressions of Islam in southeast Asia; religion and State; west Asia-southeast Asia connections
  • Seema Golestaneh, Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: anthropology of Islam, contemporary Iran
  • Kim Haines-Eitzen, Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor
    • Research Interests: early Christianity and Judaism; late Antiquity
  • Andrew Hicks, Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: Musicology (medieval music theory)
  • Pamela Karimi, Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: Middle East and North African Studies; Iranian Studies; Architectural history and theory; Environmental Issues; Gender Equality and Spatial Justice; Post-Industrial Cities
  • Lori Khatchadourian, Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: eastern Mediterranean in antiquity; Achaemenid Persian empire; first millennium BC near east; archaeology of Eurasia and the South Caucasus
  • Jonny Robert Lawrence, Assistant Professor
    • Research Interests: Sexuality, gender and emotions in literature and thought in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world
  • Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics
    • Research Interests: East Mediterranean prehistory; Mediterranean archaeology; archaeological theory
  • Mostafa Minawi, Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: Ottoman Empire; Modern Middle East
  • Jason Sion Mokhtarian, Herbert and Stephanie Neuman Professor
    • Research Interests: Rabbinic Literature; Iranian Studies; Talmud in its Sasanian context; Ancient Jewish magic and medicine; Religions of Iran; Sasanian history and culture; Middle Persian; Judeo-Persian; Jews of Persia
  • Christopher M. Monroe, Senior Lecturer (Minor Member)
    • Research Interests: social and economic history of ancient Near East; nautical archaeology
  • Eric Rebillard, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
    • Research Interests: history of Late Antiquity; Augustine; Roman funerary archaeology
  • Cynthia Robinson, Mary Donlon Alger Professor
    • Research Interests: Medieval and Islamic art and architecture
  • Deborah Starr, Professor
    • Research Interests: Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature; Cinema and Media Studies; Jewish Studies
  • Eric Tagliacozzo, John Stambaugh Professor of History
    • Research Interests: history of borders; smuggling; trade; diaspora in Southeast Asian history
  • Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, Assistant Professor
    • Research Interests: Historian of 20th century transnational North-Africa; sexuality in 20th century North Africa
  • Parisa Vaziri, Associate Professor
    • Research Interests: Iranian film and history, theories of racialization, theories of history
  • Munther A. Younes, Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Minor Member)
    • Research Interests: Arabic language and linguistics
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