People

 Professor Nezar AlSayyad
     Center Chair

 Dr. Laurence Michalak
     Vice Chair

 Ms. Casondra Sobieralski
     Program Representive II

Agricultural and Resource Economics

• Peter Berck, Ph.D., Professor,
  Israel, water resources

• Alain de Janvry, Ph.D., Professor,
  Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt

• Gordon C. Rausser, Ph.D., Professor,
  Israel, water resources

• Elizabeth Sadoulet, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Morocco

• David Zilberman, Ph.D., Professor,
  Israel, water resources

  
  
  

Anthropology

• Mariane Ferme, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
  Comparative Islamic Studies,  Arab World, West Africa

• Laura Nader, Ph.D., Professor,
  Cultural Anthropology, Lebanon

• Stefania Pandolfo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
  Cultural Anthropology, Morocco, Middle East and North Africa

• Paul Rabinow, Ph.D., Professor,
  Cultural Anthropology, Morocco

  
  
  

Architecture

• Nezar AlSayyad, Ph.D., Professor,
  Architecture, Urban Design and Urbanism in the Muslim World

• Jean-Paul Bourdier, Ph.D.,
  Islamic Architecture of West Africa

• Raymond Lifchez, Professor
  Environmental History, Turkey

  
  
  

Art History

• Daray Grimaldo Grigsby, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
  Orientalist Art

• Andrew Stewart, Ph.D., Professor,
  Eastern Mediterranean Classical Art and Archaeology

• David Wright, Ph.D., Professor,
  Roman, Byzantine and Middle Eastern Art and Architecture

  
  
  

City and Regional Planning

• David McDowall, Ph.D., Professor
  Land Market Economics, Saudi Arabia

  
  
  

Classics

• Crawford Greenewalt, Ph.D., Professor,
  Classical Archaeology

  
  
  

Comparative Literature

• Robert Alter, Ph.D., Professor,
  Hebrew (joint appointment with Near Eastern Studies)

• James Monroe, Ph.D., Professor,
  Arabic, Hispano-Arabic (joint appointment with Near Eastern Studies)

• Chana Kronfeld, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Hebrew Literature (joint appointment with Near Eastern Studies)

  
  
  

East Asian Languages

• James Bosson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Altaic Languages and Linguistics

  
  
  

Economics

• Bent Hansen, Fil. dr., Professor Emeritus,
  Economic Development, Egypt

  
  
  

Geography

• Sanjyot Mehendale, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer in Central Asian History and Geography (Spring 1999)

• Theodore Oberlander, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Iran 

• Robert Reed, Ph.D., Professor
  Saharan Hydrography, Colonial Urbanism in South East Asia

  
  
  

History

• Beshara Doumani. Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Middle East Social History

• Raymond Kent, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Africa and North Africa

• Ira Lapidus, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Islamic Social History

• Leslie Peirce, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Ottoman Period History (joint appt. with Near Eastern Studies)

• John Smith, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Mongolian, Turkish and Persian History

• Richard Webster, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  European and Zionist History

  
  
  

Italian

• Mia Fuller, Assistant Professor
  Italian Colonialism in Libya

• Ruggero Stefanini, Dottore in Lettere, Professor Emeritus
  Anatolian Studies, Italian, Hittite (joint appointment with Near Eastern Studies)

  
  
  

Law

• David Caron, L.L.B., Professor,
  International Legal Studies, Middle East
  

Linguistics

• Gary Holland, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
  Indo-European, Hittite, Old Iranian

• Sharon Inkelas, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Turkish Linguistics

• Karl Zimmer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Turkish Linguistics

  
  
  

Middle Eastern Studies

• Laurence Michalak, Ph.D., Lecturer,
  Middle East Anthropology, North Africa

  
  
  

Music

• Benjamin Brinner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  Ethnomusicology, Middle Eastern music

  
  
  

Near Eastern Studies

• Wali Ahmadi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
  Persian Literature

• Rutie Adler, M.A., Lecturer, Hebrew,
  Hebrew Coordinator

• Ayla Algar, M.A.,
  Mellon Lecturer in Turkish

• Hamid Algar, Ph.D., Professor,
  Near Eastern Studies, Islamic and Iranian Studies (on leave Fall 1998)

• Guitty Azarpay, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Near Eastern Art History

• Ariel Bloch, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Semitic Languages and Arabic Dialects

• Daniel Boyarin, Ph.D.,
  Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture

• William Brinner, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
  Near Eastern Studies, Arabic and Islam

• Marian Feldman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
  Near Eastern Art and Archaeology

• Daniel Foxvog, Ph.D.,
  Lecturer, Assyriology

• John L. Hayes, Ph.D.,
  Lecturer, Arabic/Semitic Languages

• Wolfgang J. Heimpel, Ph.D., Professor,
  Assyriology

• Ronald Hendel, Ph.D., Professor,
  Hebrew Bible, NES Chair

• Cathleen Keller, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Egyptology

• Anne D. Kilmer, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology

• Chana Kronfeld, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Hebrew Literature (joint appointment with Comparative Literature)

• Margaret Larkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Classical Arabic Literature

• Jacob Milgrom, D.H.L, Professor Emeritus,
  Hebrew, Bible Leslie Peirce, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Ottoman Turkish Texts

• James Monroe, Ph.D., Professor,
  Hispano-Arabic Literature (joint appointment with Comparative Literature)

• Leslie Peirce, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Ottoman Turkish Texts

• Jaleh Pirnazar, Ph.D.,
  Lecturer, Persian, Persian Coordinator

• Carol Redmount, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
  Egyptology

• Martin Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor,
  Iranian Studies

• Muhammad Siddiq, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Arabic Literature

• Sonia S'hiri, Ph.D., Lecturer in Arabic
• Ruggero Stefanini, Dottore in Lettere, Professor Emeritus,
  Anatolian Studies, Hittite, Italian (joint appointment with Italian)

• David B. Stronach, M.A., Chair and Professor,
  Near Eastern Archaeology

  
  
  

Political Science

• Kiren Chaudhry, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
  Middle East political economy (on leave 1997-98)

• George Lenczowski, JSD, Professor Emeritus,
  Middle Eastern Politics and Governments

  
  
  

Psychology

• Dan Slobin, Ph.D., Professor,
  Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Turkish, Hebrew

  
  
  

Rhetoric

• Bridget Connelly, Professor Emerita, Classical and Oral Arabic Literature  

 

Social Welfare

• Ralph Kramer, DSW, Professor Emeritus,
  Welfare States, Israel