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Introduction Faculty Students Visiting Faculty Facilities Director's Message Staff	You are Here: Home » About Us » Faculty TEXT SIZE: \| \| \| \| \| Photo Credit FACULTY Faculty working on the Middle East can be found in several departments in the Graduate School of Arts and Science, including Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Fine Arts, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History, Middle Eastern Studies, and Politics. MODERN MIDDLE EAST Sinan Antoon Assistant Professor, Gallatin School Ph.D. 2006, Harvard Pre-modern Arabo-Islamic culture and contemporary Arab culture and politics. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Associate Profossor History, Middle Eastern Islamic Studies, New York University Peter Chelkowski Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Ph.D. 1968, Tehran Persian literature; mysticism; Islamic studies and performing arts of the Middle East David Engel Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Professor, History Department. Ph.D. 1979, California (Los Angeles). History of the Jews in Eastern Europe; Holocaust; Zionism and Israel. Khaled Fahmy Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies D.Phil., 1993, Oxford. Social history of the modern Middle East (emphasis on law and medicine); gender studies; Egypt. Yael Feldman Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Ph.D. 1981, Columbia. Modern Hebrew literature; literary theory; gender and cultural studies. Katherine E. Fleming Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization Associate Professor,Department of History and Hellenic Studies Director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. 1995, California (Berkeley) Modern Greek history; Balkans; late Ottoman history; nationalism; religion Michael Gilsenan Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center David P. Kriser Professor of the Humanities; Departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Anthropology D. Phil. 1967, Oxford (On Leave) Michael Gomez Professor, Departments of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Chair, Department of History Ph.D. Chicago, 1985. African diaspora; Islam in West Africa; Islam in the Americas; Islamic Iberia; slavery. Bruce Grant Associate Professor of Anthropology Ph.D. Rice, 1993 Former Soviet Union, Caucasus, cultural politics, historiography. Hala Halim Assistant Professor, Departments of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. UCLA Modern and contemporary Arabic literature; modern English/Anglophone and Francophone literatures; postcolonial critique and film. Bernard Haykel Associate Professor, Departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History. D. Phil. 1997, Oxford. Islamic law and society; Yemeni society and history. Deborah Anne Kapchan Associate Professor, Departments of Performance Studies, Anthropology and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Ph.D. 1992, Pennsylvania. Narrative, poetics, feminist theory, music, aesthetics, North Africa and the Middle East. Farhad Kazemi Professor, Department of Politics. Ph.D. 1973, Michigan. Comparative and international politics; Middle East politics; urban and rural politics. Elias Khoury Global Distinguished Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Modern Arabic Literature Zachary Lockman Hagop Kevorkian Center Professor, Departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History Chair, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Ph.D. 1983, Harvard Robert McChesney Professor Emeritus, Departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History Ph.D. 1973, Princeton. Early modern history of Iran and Central Asia. Sofian Merabet Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Hagop Kevorkian Center; Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Near Eastern Studies. Ph.D. 2007, Columbia Anthropology of the Middle East; Urban and Transnational Studies; Gender Studies; Queer Theory; Psychoanalysis; Levant; Gulf Region. Mona Mikhail Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Ph.D. 1972, Michigan. Modern and contemporary Arabic language and literature; gender studies. Ali Mirsepassi Professor, Gallatin School. Ph.D. 1985, American University. Social theories of modernity; comparative and historical sociology; sociology of religion; Middle Eastern societies and cultures; Islam and social change. Leslie Peirce Silver Professor, Departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History. Ph.D. 1988 Princeton. Ottoman Studies (14 th-18 th centuries); early modern Middle East; law and society, gender and sexuality, comparative empires. Ella Shohat Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts. Ph.D. 1986 , New York University. Cultural Studies; postcolonial theory; transnational and gender studies. Shouleh Vatanabadi Master Teacher; General Studies Program, College of Arts & Science PhD 1992 Binghamton Iranian literature; gender studies. Ronald W. Zweig Marilyn and Henry Taub Professor of Israel Studies and Director, Taub Center for Israel Studies, Skirball Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies PhD: Cambridge, UK, 1978 Israeli foreign policy; Israel-Diaspora Relations, refugee studies, Palestine Mandate, Jewish organizations after 1945. Back to Top MIDDLE EAST LANGUAGE Medhat Credi Language Lecturer, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University Sibel Erol Senior Language Lecturer (Turkish), Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. 1993, California (Berkeley). Turkish language; uses of writing in teaching a language; role of literature in teaching a language; the novel; nationalism; interrelations between literature and history; women authors. Ahmed Ferhadi Clinical Professor (Arabic), Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Ph.D. 1989, Michigan Arabic language; sociolinguistics; technology applications in pedagogy Amani Hassan Language Lecturer, Department of Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. MA, New York, 1984 Arabic language and literature. Gabriela Nik. Ilieva Clinical Professor (Hindi), Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. 2000, Minnesota. Foreign language pedagogy; gender and pragmatics in Hindi and Sanskrit; historical Indo-Aryan linguistics; medieval Indian poetics Rosalie Kamelhar Senior Language Lecturer and Coordinator, Hebrew Language Program, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Ph.D. 1986, New York. Hebrew language. Mohamad Kassab Language Lecturer, Department of Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. 2005, Georgetown Arabic language Mehdi Khorrami Clincal Professor (Persian), Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. 1996, Texas (Austin). Computer-based language training; modern Persian literature. Tahira Naqvi Language Lecturer (Urdu), Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. MA 1968, Punjab; MA 1983 Western Connecticut State Urdu language and literature Nader Uthman Language Lecturer, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University Back to Top EARLY ISLAMIC AND MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EAST Jill N. Claster Professor Emeritus, Department of History Ph.D. 1959, Pennsylvania. Medieval cultural and intellectual history; the crusades and the crusader kingdom in the East; the classical tradition and its transmission through the Middle Ages. El-Leithy, Tamer Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Ph.D. 2001 Princeton Conversion and inter-faith relations in the medieval Mediterranean; urban history of Cairo; medieval gender and sexuality. Finbarr Barry Flood Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Science. Ph.D. 1993, University of Edinburgh. Art and architecture of the Islamic world; cross-cultural issues in art history; Orientalism. Alfred Ivry Professor Emeritus, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. 1963, Brandeis; D. Phil 1965, Oxford. Medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; medieval philosophy; history of philosophy. Marion Holmes Katz Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. 1997, Chicago. Ritual purity in Islamic religious law. Philip Kennedy Associate Professor, Departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature. Ph.D. 1991, Oxford. Classical and modern Arabic literature; wine; poetry; modern vernacular poetry. Frank E. Peters Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Program in Religious Studies Ph.D. 1961, Princeton Islamic history and religion; comparative Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; the Haj. Everett Rowson Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Ph.D. 1982, Yale. Classical Arabic and Islamic philosophy; adab; law and theology. Priscilla Soucek John Langeloth Loeb Professor in the History of Art, Deputy Director and Director of Graduate Studies, Institute of Fine Arts Ph.D. 1971, New York. Islamic art and architecture. Eliot Wolfson Judge Abraham Liberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Director, Program in Religious Studies. Ph.D. 1986 Brandeis. Jewish mysticism and philosophy; gender construction and the history of religion; symbolism and myth. Back to Top PRE-ISLAMIC NEAR EAST Daniel Fleming Associate Professor, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Ph.D. 1990, Harvard. Assyriology; Hebrew bible interpretation and cultural history; ancient Syria. Ogden Goelet Research Assistant Professor Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Ph.D. 1982, Columbia. Egyptian cultural history of ancient Egypt; ancient Egyptian religion; egyptian lexicography. Thomas Mathews Professor, Institute of Fine Arts Ph.D. 1970, New York. Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture. David O'Connor Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art. Ph.D. 1969, Cambridge. Ancient Egyptian art, history and archaeology. Christopher Ratté Associate Professor, Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Classics; Co-Director, Aphrodisias Archeological Project. Ph.D. 1993 California (Berkeley). Greek and Roman art and architecture; archaeology of Turkey Ann Macy Roth Clinical Associate Professor of Egyptology, Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and Department of Fine Arts. Ph.D. 1985, University of Chicago. Social history, archaeology, art, gender, and religion in ancient Egypt, particularly in the Old Kingdom period; Giza cemeteries Lawrence Schiffman Ethel and Irwin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Ph.D. 1974, Brandeis. Dead Sea scrolls; Jewish religious,political, and social history in late antiquity; history of Jewish law and Talmudic literature. Mark S. Smith Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Director, Program in Ancient Near East and Egyptological Studies Ph.D. 1985, Yale. Biblical literature (Hebrew Bible); Ugaritic language and literature; Israelite and West Semitic religion; Dead Sea Scrolls; Hebrew grammar. Rita Wright Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Institute of Fine Arts. Ph. D. 1984, Harvard. Urbanism; state form; gender relations; ancient Near East and South Asia. Back to Top			QUICK LINKS Upcoming Events Teachers Training Why NYU? 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