CMENAS Office
Omid Ghaemmaghami
Director/CMENAS
Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies
Research Interests
- Islamic intellectual history
- The Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths
- Shīʿī Islam
- The Quran and its interpretation
- Arabic grammar
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Affiliated Faculty
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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Mona Azzam
Arabic Lecturer
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL)
- Corpus linguistics
- Educational Technology
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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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Dina Danon
Associate Professor
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Sephardi Jewry
- Modern Jewish History
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Randy L. Friedman
Associate Professor/ Director of the Center for Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
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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; Associate Professor/ Undergraduate Director of Judaic Studies
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; Chair; Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); 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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R. Kevin Lacey
Associate Professor
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Ricardo René Larémont
Professor
Political Science
Research Interests
- Comparative Politics
- Islamic Law
- Islamic Politics
- Conflict Resolution
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Lior Libman
Assistant Professor of Israel Studies/ Associate 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
Undergraduate Director, Assistant 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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Shay Rabineau
Associate Professor of Israel Studies/ Associate Director of the Center for 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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Andrew Scholtz
Associate Professor/Chair
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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Kent F. Schull
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
History; 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
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Tarek Shamma
Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Research and Instruction Program, Undergraduate Director Comp Lit
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Arabic-English Translation
- History of Arabic Translation
- the Arabian Nights
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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
Associate Professor
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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Hebatalla Taha
Assistant Professor of Israel Studies/ Associate Director of the Center for Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Capitalism and colonialism in Israel/Palestine
- Political economy of Palestinians of 48
- Nuclear histories and politics in the Middle East
- Security and insecurity in the Middle East
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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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