CMENAS Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
CMENAS Office
Kent F. Schull
Associate Professor; Director/CMENAS; TRIP Courtesy Title
History; Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- History of the Ottoman Empire
- Modern Middle East history
- Palestine-Israel
- Turkey
- Criminal justice in the Middle East
- Missiology
- Forced migration
- Middle East and North African diaspora communities
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Lubna Omar
Lecturer; Associate Director/CMENAS
Anthropology; Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies
Research Interests
- Zooarchaeology
- Near Eastern Archaeology
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Sule Can
Outreach Coordinator
Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies
Research Interests
- cultural resource management and heritage
- historical and contemporary archaeology
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Affiliated Faculty
Amir Ahmadi Arian
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- Journalism
- World literature
- Postcolonial novel
- Persian poetry
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Nathanael Andrade
Chair; Professor
History
Research Interests
- Greek and Roman History
- Ancient Mediterranean
- Late Antiquity
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Allan M. Arkush
Professor
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Zionism
- Israeli History
- Modern Jewish Thought
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Ahmad Ayyad
Lecturer in Translation Studies
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Translation and interpreting in conflict and war zones
- Translation, media and politics
- Modern Arabic literature in translation
- The Palestinian-Israeli conflict
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Mark A. Blumler
Associate Professor
Geography
Research Interests
- Biogeography
- Plant Ecology
- Environmental History
- Energy and Society
- Weed Ecology and Evolution
- Ethic Cultural Trajectories
- Agricultural Origins
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Moulay Ali Bouanani
Lecturer
Africana Studies
Research Interests
- Arabic Culture and Language
- North African Studies
- Popular Culture
- Islamic Studies
- Medieval Western Mediterranean Studies
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Abagail Breidenstein
Research Development Specialist
Office of Strategic Research Initiatives
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Tina Chronopoulos
Associate Professor/Chair; Associate Professor
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Interests
- Greek and Latin Hagiography
- 11th- and 12th-cent. Medieval Latin literature
- Reception of Classical Latin Literature in the medieval period
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William Culverhouse
Director of Choral Activities; Associate Professor of Music
Music
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Dina Danon
Associate Professor/ Undergraduate Director of Judaic Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Sephardi Jewry
- Modern Jewish History
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Matthew V. Emery
Research Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Ancient DNA
- Forensic genetics
- Bioarchaeology
- Molecular anthropology
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Randy L. Friedman
Associate Professor
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
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Omid Ghaemmaghami
Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director - Middle East Studies
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Islamic intellectual history
- The Bábà and Bahá’à Faiths
- Shīʿī Islam
- The Quran and its interpretation
- Arabic grammar
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Gina Glasman
Lecturer
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Yiddish Language
- History
- Holocaust
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Ekrem Karakoc
Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Political Science
Research Interests
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization
- Comparative Political Economy
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Jonathan Karp
Associate Professor
History; Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Jewish Economic and Cultural History
- Christian-Jewish Relations
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Michael Kelly
Lecturer
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- The social and religious history of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
- "Fall" of the Roman Empire
- The relationship between history, law and literature
- Philosophy of history / Historical Theory
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Gregory Key
Turkish Lecturer
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Turkish Linguistics
- Theoretical Linguistics (morphosyntax)
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Bryan Kirschen
Associate Professor; Associate Professor; Chair of Romance Languages; Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); The Linguistics Program; Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Contact Linguistics
- Language Variation
- Documentary Linguistics
- Language Ideologies
- Sephardic Studies
- Aljamiado Texts
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Lior Libman
Associate Professor of Israel Studies/ Director of the Center for Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Modern Hebrew Literature
- Israeli Literature
- Kibbutz and Socialist-Zionism's Literature
- Cultural and Intellectual History
- Literature and Cultural History in the formative years of Israeli statehood
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Nathaniel Mathews
Associate Professor
Africana Studies
Research Interests
- African history
- Modern Zanzibar
- Islam on the Swahili coast
- History & memory
- History of slavery
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Alexandra Moore
Director; Professor
Human Rights Institute; English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Feminist Theory
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Nahed Noureddine
Lecturer; TRIP Courtesy Title
Romance Languages and Literatures; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
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Lubna Omar
Lecturer; Associate Director/CMENAS
Anthropology; Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies
Research Interests
- Zooarchaeology
- Near Eastern Archaeology
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Shay Rabineau
Chair of Judaic Studies/ Associate Professor of Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Israel/Palestine, Middle East Walking and Pilgrimage Routes
- Israeli Environmental History
- Historical Geography of the Middle East
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Christopher Robbins
Founding Director of the School of the Arts
School of the Arts
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Andrew Scholtz
Associate Professor
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- The Passions 一 Especially Desire and Envy 一 in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- The Social Psychology of Greek Rhetoric
- Intersections of Ancient Greek & Roman Sexuality, Ideology, Politics and Literature
- Literary Theory
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Tarek Shamma
Graduate Director, Undergraduate Director; Professor
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Translation and Culture
- Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies
- Cultural Studies
- The Arabian Nights
- The Bible in Islamic Cultures
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Michel Shamoon Pour
Molecular and Biomedical Anthropology, Research Associate Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program
Research Interests
- Paleogenomics and population genetics of the Middle East
- Identity in the genomic era
- Tick-borne diseases
- Research education
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Aleksandar Shopov
Assistant Professor
History
Research Interests
- Early modern Ottoman history
- Environmental history
- History of science and technology
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John H. Starks, Jr.
Collegiate Professor of Newing; Associate Professor
Residential Life; Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Greek and Roman Comedy (theater history, performance, gender)
- Non-"Western" Ethnicity around the Ancient Mediterranean, esp. Africa and the Levant
- Hellenistic and Roman Social History
- Greek and Latin Epigraphy
- Roman Historiography (including Greek historians of Rome) and Classical Biography
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Alexis Wang
Assistant Professor
Art History
Research Interests
- Medieval art and architecture
- Medieval Mediterranean
- Cultural and artistic exchange
- Materials, media and materiality
- Ecological art history
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Mary Youssef
Associate Professor
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- The Contemporary Egyptian Novel
- Modern Arabic Literature
- Arab Diasporic Literature
- African Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- Migration Studies
- Race Studies
- Gender Studies
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