Faculty  
 
Avenue of the Sphinxes, Luxor, Egypt
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Avenue of the Sphinxes, Luxor, Egypt

Hanada Al-Masri
Reis Senior Lecturer
Arabic language

Ross Brann
Acting Chair, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies
Alice H. Cook House Professor and Dean
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow

Yomna Chami
Lecturer
Arabic language

Ziad Fahmy
Assistant Professor
Modern Middle East history
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Iago Gocheleishvili
Lecturer
Persian language


Kim Haines-Eitzen
Associate Professor
Varieties of early Christianity and early Judaism; Greco-Roman religions; gender studies


Gail Holst-Warhaft
Adjunct Professor
Joint appointment, Institute for European Studies
Mediterranean studies


Chris Monroe
Senior Lecturer
Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean studies; Nautical archaeology


Lauren Monroe
Assistant Professor
Hebrew Bible


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

Jeremy L. Palmer
Lecturer
Coordinator, Elementary Arabic Program
Arabic language


David S. Powers
Professor
Islamic history and law
Director of Graduate Studies


Cynthia Robinson
Associate Professor
Joint appointment, History of Art and Archaeology
Medieval and Islamic art


Nava Scharf
Senior Lecturer
Coordinator, Hebrew Language Program
Hebrew language


Shalom Shoer
Senior Lecturer
Hebrew language


Deborah Starr
Associate Professor
Modern Arabic and Hebrew literature; critical theory; Middle Eastern film


Shawkat M. Toorawa
Associate Professor
Arabic literature and Islamic studies


Munther Younes
Reis Senior Lecturer in Arabic language and linguistics
Director, Arabic Language Program


Jeff Zorn
Adjunct Associate Professor
Biblical archaeology


Visiting Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows

Sanford Gutman
Visiting Professor
Holacaust studies

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Alexandra Kleinerman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Assyriology

Aylin Yavas
Fullbright Scholar
Turkish language

Emeritus Faculty

Martin Bernal
Professor Emeritus
Joint appointment, Department of Government
Ancient Eastern Mediterranean history