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

Andrea Seri

Title: Lecturer in Assyrilogy

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

Email: aseri@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-6009

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Angeliki E. Laiou

Title: Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History

Webpage: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1966 

Email: laiou@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-5108 

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

Department: History

Academic Interests: Byzantine social and economic history; the Byzantine family; women; the history of the Mediterranean in the later middle ages; the crusades; medieval economic history; the history of Modern Greece

Anna Grinfeld

Title: Preceptor in Modern Hebrew

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

Email: grinfeld@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-7958 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Avi Matalon

Title: Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

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

Email: matalon@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 384-9209 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Cultural contacts between people, history of literary translations (with emphasis on relations between Hebrew and Romance languages), historiography, cultural politics of identity

Baber Johansen

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

Webpage: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/johansen.html

Credentials: PhD Freie Universitat, Berlin 

Email: bjohansen@hds.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-1014 

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

Department Website 2: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ilsp/

Department: Harvard Divinity School and Islamic Legal Studies Program

Bernard Septimus

Title: Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization

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

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1975 

Email: septimus@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-1701 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Medieval Jewish history and Hebrew literature

Byron Good

Title: Professor of Medical Anthropology and Lecturer on Anthropology

Credentials: PhD University of Chicago, 1977

Email: byron_good@hms.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 432-2612; 495-3904

Department Website: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/

Department: Social Medicine

Academic Interests: Medical and psychiatric anthropology. Recent courses include Culture, Illness, and Healing: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Medicine in Society, Theory and Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology

Carl Sharif El-Tobgui

Title: Preceptor in Arabic

Credentials: AM from McGill and BS from Georgetown

Email: eltobgui@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-8787

Office Location: 38 Kiirkland st, 304

Office Hours: T 10:15-11:45; W 3:15-4:45

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

Title: Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology

Credentials: PhD University of Pennsylvania, 1965 

Email: karlovsk@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-8162 

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

Department: Antrhopology 

Academic Interests: The urban process and exchange networks that tie the Near East, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian peninsula, and Central Asia into spheres of economic and political interaction

Dalia Yasharpour

Title: Preceptor in Persian

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

Credentials: PhD University of California, Los Angeles, 2005

Email: dyasharp@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-8559

Office Location: 6 Divinity Avenue, Room 306A

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Iranian Studies, Persian Literature, Judeo-Persian Literature

Dani Rodrik

Title: Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy

Webpage: http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/dani_rodrik

Credentials: PhD Princeton University, 1985 

Email: dani_rodrik@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-9454 

Department: International Political Economy

Academic Interests:  International economics, Middle East economics

David G. Mitten

Title: James Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology and George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~classics/people/mitten.html

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1962 

Email: mitten@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-3355 

Department: Harvard University Art Museums

Academic Interests: Aegean, Anatolian, and Achaemenian Persian, art and archaeology

Edward Keenan

Title: Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History, History Department, and Director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection  

Webpage: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1966 

Email: keenan@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (202) 339-6413 

Business Address2: 1703 32nd Street N W

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

Department Website 2: http://www.doaks.org/

Department: History and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Thesis Title: Muscovy and Kazan, 1445-1553 -A Study in Steppe Politics

Academic Interests: Russian and Central Asian history.

Ghada Badawi

Title: Preceptor in Modern Arabic

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

Email: gbadawi@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-5757

Office Location: 38 Kirkland Stree, 301

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Helga Anetshofer

Title: Preceptor in Ottoman

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

Email: anetshof@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-8568

Office Location: 38 Kirkland Stree, 211

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Ioli Kalavrezou

Title: Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art

Credentials: PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1977

Email: kalavrez@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-7982

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

Department: History of Art and Architecture

Academic Interests: Byzantine art history 

Irene Winter

Title: William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts 

Credentials: PhD Columbia University, 1973 

Email: iwinter@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-0780 

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

Department: History of Art and Architecture

Academic Interests: Archaeology, Near Eastern art history

Irit Aharony

Title: Preceptor in Modern Hebrew

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

Credentials: PhD Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 1998

Email: aharony@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-7958

Office Location: Vanserg, Room 121

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

James R. Russell

Title: Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies

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

Credentials: PhD University of London, 1982 

Email: russell@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-9049 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Armenian studies, pre-Islamic Iran

Jay Harris

Title: Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies

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

Credentials: PhD Columbia University, 1985 

Email: jharris@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-0829 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Ancient Judaism, modern Jewish history

J.F. Coakley

Title: Senior Lecturer on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

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

Email: coakley@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-2312

Office Location: Semitic Museum, Room 307

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

John Huehnergard

Title: Professor of Semitic Philology

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

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1979 

Email: huehnerg@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-4654 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Comparative Semitic grammar, Assyriology

John S. Schoeberlein-Engel

Title: Lecturer on Central Asian Studies and Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus

Webpage: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~schoeber/

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1994 

Email: schoeber@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-4338 

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

Department Website 2: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Anthropology; Central Asia; identity, culture, and politics; Islam

Jon D. Levenson

Title: Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies

Webpage: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/levenson.html

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1975 

Email: jon_levenson@harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-5955 

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

Department: Harvard Divinity School

Academic Interests: Literature, religion, and theology of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic Judaism

Jo Ann Hackett

Title: Professor of the Practice of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy

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

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1980 

Email: hackett@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617)496-8558

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Biblical languages, Northwest Semitic epigraphy, women in the biblical world. 

Kay K. Shelemay

Title: Professor of Music 

Webpage: http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/facbios.html#shelemay

Credentials: PhD University of Michigan, 1977 

Email: shelemay@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-2791 

Department Website: http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/

Department: Department of Music

Academic Interests: Middle Eastern music

Khaled Al-Masri

Title: Preceptor in Arabic

Email: masri@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-4194

Office Hours: M 1-3PM; T 1-2PM

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Khaled El-Rouayheb

Title: Assistant Professor of Islamic Intellectual History

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/faculty/el-rouayheb.htm

Email: kel@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-1681

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Lawrence E. Stager

Title: Dorot Professor of Archaeology of Israel

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

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1975 

Email: stager@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-5756 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Archaeology of the Levant; society, economy, and religion of Canaan and Israel

Leila Ahmed

Title: Victor Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

Webpage: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/ahmed.html

Credentials: PhD University of Cambridge, 1971

Email: leila_ahmed@harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-5316 

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

Department: Harvard Divinity School

Academic Interests: Women and gender in Islam

Luis Girón-Negrón

Title: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Webpage: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~complit/lgironnegron.htm

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1997

Email: giron@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-2567

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

Department: Comparative Literature

Academic Interests: Literature and religious history of medieval Spain; comparative themes in Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin literatures. Recent courses include Religion and Literature in the Middle Ages, From Type to Self in the Middle Ages

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Title: Professor of Social Medicine

Webpage: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/people/faculty/MaryJoGood.html

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1977

Email: maryjo_good@hms.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 432-2557

Department Website: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/

Department: Social Medicine

Academic Interests: Culture, person, and healing in Middle Eastern societies; biomedicine and bioethics in comparative perspective; gender and culture in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies ñ Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia. Recent courses include Gender and Culture in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Michael Herzfeld

Title: Professor of Anthropology

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

Credentials: D.Phil. University of Oxford, 1976 

Email: herzfeld@wjh.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-5190 

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

Department: Anthropology 

Academic Interests: Social theory, social poetics, politics of history, Greece.

Mostafa Atamnia

Title: Preceptor in Arabic

Credentials: JD, University of Algiers, 1992