Title: Professor of Women's Studies; Professor of History
Credentials: PhD Sociology, University of Manchester
Department: Committee on Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality; History
Academic Interests: Genealogies of Iranian feminism, historiography of sexuality on non-Euro/American cultures
Classes Taught: Women, Islam, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa, Current Problems in Feminist Theory, and Nations, Genders, and Sexualities in Comparative Perspectives
Title: Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture
Phone: 617-495-5755
Office Location: Barker Center, Room 305
Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Academic Interests: Religion and culture of Islam, Islamic civilization in South Asia, Sufi and Islamic folk poetry in Indic languages.
Title: Professor Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School; Acting Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School; and Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School
Credentials: PhD Freie Universitat, Berlin
Phone: (617) 495-1014
Department: Harvard Divinity School and Islamic Legal Studies Program
Title: Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies
Credentials: PhD McGill University, 1987
Phone: 617-496-1870
Department: History
Academic Interests: Ottoman history, the Middle East and the Balkans in the early modern era, modern Turkey
Classes Taught: "Ottoman State and Society" I and II, "The Middle East and Modernity," "Topics in Ottoman Social and Cultural History," "The Middle East and Europe since the Crusades: Relations and Perceptions"
Title: Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Credentials: PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Phone: (617) 496-1056
Department: History of Art and Architecture
Academic Interests: Arts of the Islamic book, album making, architecture in Iran and Central Asia
Classes Taught: Early Islamic Art and Architecture (650-1250), Islamic Pilgrimage, Art in the Wake of the Mongol Conquests: Genghis Khan and His Successors
Title: Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1986
Phone: (617) 495-2355
Department: History of Art and Architecture
Academic Interests: Architectural history, Islamic art and architecture, Ottoman art and architecture
Classes Taught: Introduction to Later Islamic Art and Architecture (1250-1800), Architecture and Dynastic Legitimacy: The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires, Architecture and Urbanism in the Age of Sinan, Visual Encounters: Artistic Relations Between Europe and the Islamic World, The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court
Title: Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies
Phone: (617) 496-0330
Department: Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design
Title: Director, Contemporary Arab Studies Program, CMES; A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History
Credentials: D.Phil. University of Oxford, 1964
Phone: (617) 495-2817
Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street, 210
Office Hours: T 2:00-4:00PM
Department: History
Academic Interests: Economic and social history of the Middle East, politics of the Middle East.
Title: Chair, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program; and Gurney Professor of History
Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1969
Phone: (617) 495-8433 (direct line, no voicemail), (617) 495-4055 (for his assistant)
Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street, 210
Office Hours: T 3-5PM; TH 3-5PM
Department: History; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Academic Interests: Medieval Islamic history, Islamic religion and culture
Classes Taught: History of the Near East, 600-1055, History of the Near East, 1055-1517: Conference Course
Title: Assistant Professor of Social Medicine
Credentials: M.D., PhD
Department: Harvard Medical School
Title: Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies; CMES Director
Credentials: PhD University of Chicago, 1984
Phone: (617) 495-1886
Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street (101); William James Hall (348)
Office Hours: Thursdays 3-4, Wednesday 10-12 Anthropology
Department: Anthropology
Academic Interests: Linguistics, cultural studies, Yemeni poetics and politics, gender, US men’s movement.
Title: Associate Director, Director of the AM Program, and Lecturer on Near Eastern Studies
Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1997
Phone: (617) 495-7596
Office Location: 38 Kirkland, 110
Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Academic Interests: Anthropology of the Middle East, medical anthropology, kinship studies, Israel
Biography: Susan Kahn received her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. Her book, Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel, was published in Fall 2000 by Duke University Press and won a National Jewish Book Award for the year 2000, as well as the 2001 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, awarded by the Society of Medical Anthropology for outstanding research in gender and health. Her research interests include medical anthropology, kinship studies, Israel studies and anthropology of the Middle East. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she is currently working on a research project about the social uses of new reproductive technologies in diverse cultural contexts. Susan was born and raised in Cambridge, Mass.
Classes Taught: Approaches to Middle Eastern Studies: Proseminar, Middle Eastern Studies Research Project Seminar
Title: Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School; Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1973
Phone: (617) 495 4513
Office Location: Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave., Room 200
Department: Harvard Divinity School; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Academic Interests: Islamic religion, early Islamic history and literature, comparative history of religion.
Title: Professor of the Practice of Arabic
Credentials: PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1986
Phone: (617) 496-9065
Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street, 302
Office Hours: M, TH 1:30-3:30PM
Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Academic Interests: Arabic language and literature, Arabic historiography, medieval Islam.
Title: James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic
Credentials: D.Phil. University of Giessen, 1967
Phone: (617) 495-3977
Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Academic Interests: Classical Arabic poetry and literary theory, Islamic legal theory, Neo-Aramaic.
Classes Taught: "History of the Arabic Language," "History of Arabic Literature"
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