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NELC Faculty

Andrews, Walter; Research Professor
Ph.D., 1970, Michigan
Turkish language and literature, Ottoman Turkish
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Brown, Jonathan; Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2006, Chicago
Early Islamic History
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Cirtautas, Ilse D.; Professor
Ph.D., 1958, Hamburg
Turkic languages and literatures
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DeYoung, Terri L.; Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1988, UC Berkeley
Arabic language and literature
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Elkhafaifi, Hussein; Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1985, Utah
Arabic language and linguistics
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Kuru, Selim; Associate Professor
Ph.D., 2000, Harvard
Ottoman language and literature and modern Turkish
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Noegel, Scott; Professor & Chair
Ph.D., 1995, Cornell
Hebrew Bible, ancient Near Eastern languages and cultures
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Papan-Matin, Firoozeh; Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2003, UCLA
Persian language and literature; Iranian culture and Islamic texts
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Sokoloff, Naomi B.; Professor
Ph.D., 1980, Princeton
Hebrew language and literature
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Williams, Michael A.; Professor
Ph.D., 1977, Harvard
Early Christianity and religions of antiquity, Coptic language
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Emeriti

Bacharach, Jere L.; Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., 1967, Michigan
History of the Middle East, Islamic history
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Heer, Nicholas L.; Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., 1955, Princeton
Arabic language and literature, Islamic theology and philosophy
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MacKay, Pierre A.; Emeritus Professor
Ph.D., 1964, UC Berkeley
Topography of the Near East, Ottoman Turkish, and Classical Arabic literatures
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Ziadeh, Farhat J.; Emeritus Professor
LL. B., 1940, London
Arabic language and literature, Islamic law and institutions
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Adjunct & Affiliate

Clauss, Jim; Adjunct Professor
Department of Classics
Ph.D. 1983, UC Berkeley
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Gabbay, Alyssa; Visiting Scholar
Ph.D., 2007, Chicago
History of the medieval and early modern Persianate world
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Jaffee, Martin S.; Adjunct Professor
Jackson School of International Studies
Ph.D., 1980, Brown
History of Judaism and late antiquity, methods in study of religion
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Kampbell, Sarah M.; Visiting Scholar
Ph. D. Candidate, Princeton University
Maritime Archaeology, Eastern Mediterranean trade and commerce
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Kasaba, Resat; Adjunct Professor
Jackson School of International Studies
Ph.D., 1986 SUNY
Political economy of the world system and the Middle East
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Lopez, Shaun; Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of History
Ph.D., 2004, University of Michigan
Modern Middle East and North Africa
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Nickelsburg, George; Affiliate Professor
University of Iowa
Th.D. 1968, Harvard Divinity School
Early Judaism and origins of Christianity
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Osanloo, Arzoo; Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., 2002, Stanford; Anthropology of law, transnational law,
Islam in Pakistan and the U.S.; Islam and women studies
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Chloe Ragazzoli; Visiting Scholar
University of Paris - Sorbonne
M.A., 2003, Sorbonne
Egyptology
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Reid, Donald M.; Affiliate Professor
Georgia State University
Ph.D., 1969, Princeton
Middle East History
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Schneider, Thomas; Affiliate Professor
University of British Columbia
Ph.D., 1996, Basel, Switzerland
Egyptology
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Schuyler, Philip; Adjunct Professor
School of Music
Ph.D., 1979, UW
Music/Ethnomusicology; Middle East, Africa, Arab world
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Walker, Joel; Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of History
Ph.D., 1997, Princeton
History and Archaeology of the Near East in late antiquity
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Waters, Stacy; Affiliate Instructor
DXARTS
Ph.D., 1976, University of Edinburgh
Textual Studies
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Lecturers

Ait Hamd, Adil
B.A., 1999, University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah
Arabic
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Benson, Susan
M.A., 1983, University of Utah
Arabic
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Martin, Gary
Ph.D., 2007, University of Washington
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies Textual Criticism and Biblical Hebrew
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Mawkanuli, Talant
Ph.D., 1999, Indiana University
Turkic languages and linguistics
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Romano, Tovi
B. Ed., 1990, Levinski College of Education
Hebrew language and literature
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Sobir, Bozor
M.A., University of Tajikistan
Tajik languages and literature