Primary Faculty | The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Afsaneh Najmabadi

Title: Professor of Women's Studies; Professor of History

Webpage: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=31

Credentials: PhD Sociology, University of Manchester

Email: najmabad@fas.harvard.edu

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wgs/

Department Website 2: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/

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 I Teach: Women, Islam, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa, Current Problems in Feminist Theory, and Nations, Genders, and Sexualities in Comparative Perspectives

Ali Asani

Title: Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/asani.htm

Email: aliasani@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: 617-495-5755

Office Location: Barker Center, Room 305

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/

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.

Cemal Kafadar

Title: Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies

Webpage: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=19

Credentials: PhD McGill University, 1987

Email: kafadar@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: 617-496-5389

Department Website: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/

Department: History

Academic Interests: Ottoman history, the Middle East and the Balkans in the early modern era, modern Turkey

Classes I Teach: "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"

David Roxburgh

Title: Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/Roxburghcv306.pdf

Credentials: PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1991

Email: roxburgh@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-1056

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/

Department: History of Art and Architecture

Academic Interests: Arts of the Islamic book, album making, architecture in Iran and Central Asia

Classes I Teach: Early Islamic Art and Architecture (650-1250), Islamic Pilgrimage, Art in the Wake of the Mongol Conquests: Genghis Khan and His Successors

Engseng Ho

Title: Associate Professor

Credentials: PhD University of Chicago, 2000

Email: ho@wjh.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-4454

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/

Department: Anthropology

Academic Interests: Social theory, ethnographic history/texts (Arabic, Malay, imperial English), creolization, diaspora, pre-colonial cosmopolitanism, Islam, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean.

Gülrü Necipoglu

Title: Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/facultyhaamaster_files/necipoglucv.htm

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1986

Email: gnecipog@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-2355

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hoart/

Department: History of Art and Architecture

Academic Interests: Architectural history, Islamic art and architecture, Ottoman art and architecture

Classes I Teach: 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

Hakan Karateke

Title: Preceptor in Modern Turkish Language; Contin Ed/Spec Prog Instructor

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/karateke.htm

Credentials: D.Phil, Bamberg University, 1998

Email: karateke@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-4750

Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street, 201

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/index.html

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Ottoman and Turkish literature and history

Classes I Teach: Elementary Modern Turkish, Intermediate Turkish I, and Advanced Turkish I

Hashim Sarkis

Title: Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies

Webpage: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/sarkis/index.html

Email: hsarkis@gsd.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-0330

Department Website: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/upd/

Department: Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design

Marwa Elshakry

Title: Assistant Professor of the History of Science

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/bios/elsharkry.html

Email: elshakry@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-5184

Office Location: Science Center, 360

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/

Department: History of Science

Miri Kubovy

Title: Professor of the Practice of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/kubovy.htm

Credentials: MA Yale University, 1976

Email: kubovy9@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-4985

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/index.html

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Modern Hebrew language and literature, Israeli culture

Classes I Teach: Contemporary Israeli Culture, Hebrew of the Media: Press, TV, and Radio

E. Roger Owen

Title: Director, Contemporary Arab Studies Program, CMES; A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History

Credentials: D.Phil. University of Oxford, 1964

Email: eowen@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-2817

Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street, 210

Office Hours: T 3-5; TH 3-5PM

Department Website: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/

Department: History

Academic Interests: Economic and social history of the Middle East, politics of the Middle East.

Roy P. Mottahedeh

Title: Chair, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program; and Gurney Professor of History

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1969

Email: mottahed@fas.harvard.edu

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 Website: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/

Department Website 2: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/

Department: History; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Medieval Islamic history, Islamic religion and culture

Classes I Teach: History of the Near East, 600-1055, History of the Near East, 1055-1517: Conference Course

Salmaan Keshavjee

Title: Instructor in Medicine, Division of Social Medicine

Webpage: http://hms.harvard.edu/WhitePagesPublic.asp?task=showperson&id=174271374179278375176278&a=hms&r=1&kw=

Credentials: M.D., PhD

Email: salmaan@pih.org

Phone: (617) 525-7649

Business Phone: 617-525-7649

Alternative Email: salmaan@pih.org

Mobile Phone: 617-515-6825

Department Website: http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp

Department: Harvard Medical School

Thesis Title: Medicines and Transitions: The Political Economy of Health and Social Change in Post-Soviet Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Steve Caton

Title: Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies; CMES Director

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_faculty_pages/social_pages_caton.html

Credentials: PhD University of Chicago, 1984

Email: caton@wjh.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-1886

Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street (101); William James Hall (348)

Office Hours: Thursdays 3-4, Wednesday 10-12 Anthropology

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/

Department: Anthropology

Academic Interests: Linguistics, cultural studies, Yemeni poetics and politics, gender, US men’s movement.

Susan Kahn

Title: Associate Director, Director of the AM Program, and Lecturer on Near Eastern Studies

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/kahn.htm

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1997

Email: skahn@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-7596

Office Location: 38 Kirkland, 110

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/index.html

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 I Teach: Approaches to Middle Eastern Studies: Proseminar, Middle Eastern Studies Research Project Seminar

Susan Gilson Miller

Title: Director, Moroccan Studies Program and Senior Lecturer on Islamic Studies

Credentials: PhD University of Michigan, 1976

Email: sgmiller@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-4047

Office Hours: T 12-1PM

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/index.html

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: History of the Maghrib

Classes I Teach: North Africa, 1500 to the Present, The City in North African History

William Graham

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

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/graham.htm

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1973

Email: wgraham@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495 4513

Office Location: Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave., Room 200

Department Website: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/

Department Website 2: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/index.html

Department: Harvard Divinity School; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Islamic religion, early Islamic history and literature, comparative history of religion.

William Granara

Title: Professor of the Practice of Arabic

Credentials: PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1986