CMENAS Faculty

CMENAS Faculty

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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)
LT 715

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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Ahmad Ayyad

Assistant Professor of Translation Studies

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
LT 515

Research Interests

  • Translation in conflict and war zones
  • Political discourse analysis
  • Translation and media
  • Subtitling and politics
  • Palestinian literature in translation
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Tina Chronopoulos

Associate Professor/Chair; Associate Professor

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
LT 509

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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Omid Ghaemmaghami

Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director - Middle East Studies

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
LT 512

Research Interests

  • History and literature of the Bábí and Bahá’í religions
  • Islamic intellectual history
  • The Quran and its interpretation
  • Arabic grammar
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Michael Kelly

Lecturer

Judaic Studies
LT 1305

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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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
LN 2210

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
LT 1315

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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Shay Rabineau

Chair of Judaic Studies/ Associate Professor of Israel Studies

Judaic Studies
LT 1312

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

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

Professor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Comparative Literature
LT 1508A

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
S3 B55/B79

Research Interests

  • Paleogenomics and population genetics of the Middle East
  • Identity in the genomic era
  • Tick-borne diseases
  • Research education
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John H. Starks, Jr.

Collegiate Professor of Newing; Associate Professor

Residential Life; Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
C4 119A

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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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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