Faculty
Professors
Peter F. Abboud Arabic syntax and phonology; Arabic dialectology; medieval Arabic grammar and grammarians; socio-linguistics; history of the Arabic language
Aaron Bar-Adon Sociolinguistics and language acquisition; Hebrew and Arabic language, literature, and linguistics
David J. Eaton Water; natural resources; agriculture; health; urban services; water management in the Jordan River Basin; public administration, management, and dispute resolution
Mohammad Ghanoonparvar 20th century Persian literature; comparative literary history and criticism; methodology and practice of literary translation
Barbara J. Harlow Colonial and resistance literature of the Middle East and Africa
Clement Moore Henry Comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa; financial systems and business elites; international business (oil and political risk analysis).
Michael Craig Hillmann Persian (Farsi and Tajiki) language and literature; Iranian art and culture; literary autobiography; lyric verse
Harold A. Liebowitz Archaeology and art history of the land of Israel in the Biblical and Greco-Roman periods; art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East with particular emphasis on the Late Bronze to Mamluk Periods in Israel, Jordan, and Syria; daily life in Ancient Israel; material culture and literature of the period of the Mishnah and Talmud; medieval Jewish illuminated manuscripts from Spain, and Old Testament narrative painting from the Byzantine period until the Renaissance
William Roger Louis British Empire in the Middle East, especially in the post-1945 period; the contemporary Middle East
Ian Manners Resource management with particular reference to ecological and socioeconomic processes influencing decision-making; ecologically sustainable development; environmental impact assessment and mitigation
Associate Professors
Kamran S. Aghaie Islamic studies, Shi'ism, modern Iranian history, and modern Middle Eastern history; secondary areas of interest include world history, historiography, religious studies, nationalism, gender studies and economic history
Kamran Asdar Ali Gender, development, health, political economy, critique of development, post-colonialism, labor history, Middle East, Egypt, South Asia
Mahmoud al-Batal Teaching Arabic as a foreign language
Kristen Brustad Arabic language, dialects, syntax of spoken Arabic, language ideology, Arabic literature.
Mounira Maya Charrad Gender and women's rights; political sociology; development; and comparative historical methodology
Kate Gillespie International marketing; macromarketing
Abraham Marcus Arab and Ottoman history; Islamic history; social history of the Middle East; music cultures of the Middle East
Mohammad A. Mohammad Linguistics and the Arabic language
Ami Pedahzur Political extremism in Israel, political violence and political parties
Esther L. Raizen Modern and classical Hebrew language, linguistics and literature; Hebrew as a foreign language; Jewish history and culture; Computer-assisted instruction and computational linguistics; Academic advising and student development
Faegheh S. Shirazi One of her primary areas of interest is the subject of material culture and its influence on gender identity and discourse in Muslim societies. Textiles and Clothing, particularly the Islamic veil ([em]hijab[/em]), is the main focus of her research. She also studies issues of women, rituals, and rites of passage as they relate to material culture in popular Islamic societies.
Denise A. Spellberg Middle East history and religion; medieval Islamic history; women's studies
Karin S. Wilkins Development communication as it relates to international health, population and environmental issues, media studies
Abraham Zilkha Hebrew language and linguistics; modern Israel
Assistant Professors
Samer Ali Islamic kingship, court literature and patronage, classical historiography, modern and medieval folklore and folklife, Arab women poets, oral performance of Homeric epic, literary criticism
Hina Azam Islamic law and jurisprudence, women and Islam
Diana K. Davis Dr. Davis has conducted research and published on indigenous veterinary and ecological knowledge, environment and development in the Middle East and North Africa, gender and development in the region, neoliberalism, and, most recently, the environmental history of the Middle East. Much of her work uses the approach of political ecology to interrogate long-standing notions of environmental degradation and the environmental policies they have engendered, policies that are often less than ecologically effective and frequently socially unjust. Her research interests extend to exploring these topics in the Americas, Africa and Asia as well. Her current research aims to elucidate the complex ways that environmental narratives are constructed and utilized over time from the pre-colonial period to the present and to explore how these narratives impact contemporary environmental policy formulation and practice. Her new book project, ''Imperialism and Environmental History in the Middle East'' (Cambridge University Press) analyzes the complex relationships between imperialism and environmental narratives in the Arab Middle East from Egypt to Syria.[br /][br /] Over the last decade, she has conducted research with fellowships from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS Ryskamp), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Yoav Di Capua Modern Arab Thought with an emphasis on Egypt.
Karen Grumberg Contemporary Hebrew literature and comparative Jewish literatures (Hebrew, French, English)
Tola Mosadomi Yoruba Language Courses, Yoruba Cultures and History, Yoruba Women, Creole studies
Sonia Seeman Emergent Turkish cultural expressions and ongoing configuration of ethnic and gendered identities in the wake of the European Union accession processes.
Senior Lecturers
Yildiray Erdener Turkish language; folklore and ethnomusicology of Turkey and the Turkic Republics. Turkish minstrel music, folklore and music of the Middle East and Central Asia
Yaron Shemer Ethnic studies, cultural studies, Israeli culture and society, Middle Eastern cinema
Lecturers
Boushra al-Bathish Uri Horesh Nader Morkus Discourse analysis, intercultural communication between Arabs and Americans, the use of technology to enhance intercultural communication.
Monica Yaniv Modern Hebrew language, linguistics, Hebrew as a foreign language, syntax and spoken Hebrew.
Visiting Faculty
Yoav Gelber