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

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

Webpage: http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/people/faculty/good_byron/

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 Seminar in Global Health Equity (Social Medicine 715), Culture and Mental Illness (Anthropology 2740), and Theories of Subjectivity in Current Anthropolog (Anthropology 2785).

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

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

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

Title: Lecturer on Central Asian Studies, Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, and Director of the Project on Islam and Politics in Eurasia

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 in Eurasia/Former Soviet Union

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: T, Th 10-11:30 am

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://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/people/faculty/good_maryjo/

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1977

Email: maryjo_good@hms.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 432-2557

Department Website: http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/

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_faculty_pages/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/~anthro/

Department: Anthropology 

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

Mostafa Atamnia

Title: Preceptor in Arabic

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

Credentials: JD, University of Algiers, 1992

Email: atamnia@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-9273

Office Location: 38 Kiirkland st, 303

Office Hours: M, W 11AM-12PM; T 10:00-2:00PM

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Human rights, freedom of the press, Arabic poetry, and the culture of North Africa.

M. Shahab Ahmed

Title: Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

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

Credentials: PhD University of Princeton, 1999

Email: msahmed@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-4585 

Department Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~csrel/welcome.html

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

Department: Committee on Study of Religion; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Paul Hanson

Title: Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity

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

Credentials: PhD Harvard University 1971 

Email: pdhanson@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-5765 

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

Department: Harvard Divinity School

Academic Interests: Jewish apocalyptic literature, biblical prophecy, biblical theology, biblical religion and politics in the United States.

Peter B. Machinist

Title: Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages

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

Credentials: PhD Yale University, 1978 

Email: machinis@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-0333 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Biblical studies, Mesopotamian studies, history of the ancient Near East

Piotr Steinkeller

Title: Professor of Assyriology

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

Credentials: PhD University of Chicago, 1976 

Email: steinkel@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-0553 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Socioeconomic history of early Mesopotamia

P. Oktor Skjaervo

Title: Aga Khan Professor of Iranian

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

Credentials: PhD University of Oslo, 1981 

Email: skjaervo@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-5756 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Iranian linguistics

Ruth R. Wisse

Title: Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

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

Credentials: PhD McGill University, 1969 

Email: wisse@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 496-9050 

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

Department: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Academic Interests: Yiddish language and literature, Jewish studies

Sandra Naddaff

Title: Director of Studies in the Literature Concentration; Senior Lecturer on Literature  and Comparative Literature

Credentials: PhD Harvard University, 1983 

Email: snaddaff@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 495-4186 

Department Website: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k38927

Academic Interests: Arabic, French, and English literature

Sayed Elsisi

Title: Preceptor in Modern Arabic

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

Credentials: Cairo University, B.A., M.A., PhD Candidate

Email: elsisi@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: 617-495-5872

Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street, Room 303

Office Hours: T, W 2:00-3:30PM

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

Department: NELC

Biography: Sayed Elsisi teaches Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Egyptian colloquial. He comes to Harvard from AUC (American University in Cairo), in which he taught Arabic Language and Arabic Literature in CASA program. He studied at Cairo University, where he received his BA, MA and where he is completing his Ph.D in Modern Arabic Literature. He is the editorial assistant of "Alif", the journal of comparative poetics. Sayed Elsisi specializes in Modern Arabic Poetry. He wrote and published several studies on the Arabic novel and poetry in books and literary periodicals. He is currently working on a project focusing on the poetic characteristics of contemporary prose poetry. He taught several levels of Modern standard Arabic, Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, and Arabic Literature (Modern and Classical).