Faculty Roster

Department Office: 250 Barrows Hall, 642-3757. Chair: Carol Redmount.

Professors:

Hamid Algar, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Persian Literature. Islamic culture, religion, philosophy; Sufism and the Qur'an. Ph.D. Cambridge University

Robert B. Alter, (Class of 1937 Professor), Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature. Hebrew literature, modern and biblical. Ph.D. Harvard University

Guitty Azarpay (Emerita), Professor of Near Eastern studies. Near Eastern Art. Ph.D. University of California.

Ariel Bloch (Emeritus), Professor of Arabic and Semitics. Arabic dialectology, Hebrew. Ph.D. Munster University

Daniel Boyarin, (Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture). Cultural studies in Talmud and Midrash; gender and sexuality; hermeneutics; ancient Judaism and Christianity. Ph.D. Jewish Theological Seminary

William M. Brinner (Emeritus, Recipient of Distinguished Teaching Award). Islamic institutions: Arabic, Judeo-Arabic. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Wolfgang J. Heimpel (Emeritus), Professor of Mesopotamian and Sumerian cultures. Ph.D. University of Heidelberg

Ronald Hendel, Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible. Ancient Hebrew language, literature, religion and culture. Ph.D. Harvard University

Anne D. Kilmer (Emerita), Professor of Assyriology. Akkadian, Mesopotamian culture, literature and music. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Chana Kronfeld, Professor of Modern Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Modern Hebrew Literature. Literary theory; Yiddish language and literature, linguistic methods in literary criticism. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Margaret Larkin, Professor of Arabic Literature. Arabic literature. Ph.D. Columbia University

Jacob Milgrom (Emeritus), Professor of Biblical religion, law and history. D.H.L., D.D. (hon.c) Jewish Theological Seminary and D.H.L. (hon.c) University of Judaism

James T. Monroe (Emeritus), Professor of Classical Arabic Literature. Hispano-Arabic literature, and comparative literature. Ph.D. Harvard University

Francesa Rochberg (Magistretti Professor), Professor of ancient Near Eastern history, history of science with a focus on ancient astronomy and astrology. Ph.D. from the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. Recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (1982-87) and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1993-94).

Martin Schwartz, Professor of Iranian Studies. Pre-Islamic Iranian language, culture and Society; Middle Persian and Iranian philology; Zoroastrianism; Manichaeism, Indo-European, poetics and Semitics. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Muhammad Siddiq , Associate Professor of Arabic Literature. Comparative Literature. Arabic and Hebrew literature. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

David B. Stronach (Emeritus) , Professor in the Graduate School (Near Eastern Archaeology). Near Eastern art and archaeology. M.A. Cambridge University

Ruggero Stefanini (Emeritus). Anatolian studies and Hittite. Dottore in Lettere University of Florence. In Memoriam.

Associate Professors:

Shahwali Ahmadi, Assistant Professor of Persian Literature. Persian literature. Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

Marian Feldman, Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Art. Ancient Near Eastern art; Eastern Mediterranean interconnections; Bronze Age Aegean art and archaeology. Ph.D. Harvard University

Cathleen A. Keller, Chair of Near Eastern Studies, Associate Professor of Egyptology. Ancient Egyptian language, history, art history. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Carol A. Redmount, Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology. Syro-Palestinian archaeology and Egyptian archaeology. Ph.D. University of Chicago

Niek Veldhuis, Associate Professor of Assyriology. Ancient Mesopotamian languages and cultures. Ph.D. University of Groningen, Netherlands

Lecturers:

Rutie Adler, Lecturer in Hebrew. Linguistics, Hebrew linguistics. English as second language. M.A. University of California, Berkeley; M.A. San Francisco State University

Ayla Algar (Mellon Lecturer), Lecturer in Turkish. Turkish language and literature, language pedagogy. M.A. University of California, Berkeley

Hatem Bazian, Lecturer in Arabic. Arabic language. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley.

Chava Boyarin, Lecturer in Hebrew. Modern and Biblical Hebrew literature, classics. M.A. Hebrew University; M.A. City University of New York; Diploma in Hebrew Linguistics

John L. Hayes, Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Semitics. Semitic linguistics, Arabic, Akkadian, Sumerian. Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

David Larkin, Lecturer in Egyptology. Egyptology. University of Chicago

Sanjyot Mehendale, Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology. Near Eastern archaeology, Central Asia. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Laurie Pearce, Lecturer in Akkadian. Assyriology, Akkadian, and Cuneiform. Ph.D. Yale University

Jaleh Pirnazar (Mellon Lecturer), Lecturer in Persian. Modern Iranian history. Persian language and literature. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley.

Sonia S'hiri, Lecturer in Arabic. Arabic language and literature. Ph.D. University of Edinburgh