The Center for Middle Eastern Studies was established for the purpose of integrating and reinforcing instruction and research in the languages, literatures, history, economics, and cultures of North Africa, the Middle East, and Islamic Central and South Asia, with the emphasis on the modern period. The Committee on Middle Eastern Studies is the degree committee that administers programs offered through the Center. To achieve its goals, the Center cooperates with departments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and with other faculties that have Middle Eastern interests, other regional studies centers, and various libraries and museums that hold collections related to Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. The Center’s aim is to offer a comprehensive program to provide integrated training for those planning a career in education, government service, or private industry, and to support research on the area.

THE COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

Steven C. Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies (Chair)

Leila Ahmed, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity (Divinity School)

Ali S. Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures

Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs

Byron J. Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology (Medical School)

Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Professor of Social Medicine (Medical School)

William A. Graham, Jr., Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (FAS) and John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity (Divinity School)

Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic

Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology

Engseng Ho, Frederick S. Danzinger Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies

Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies

Miri Kubovy, Professor of the Practice of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History

Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art

E. Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History

Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy (Kennedy School)

David J. Roxburgh, Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Hashim Sarkis, Aga Kahn Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies (Design School)