MEAMS Faculty

Research Interests

• Roman Economy and Materiality
• Pigments
• Etruscan Archaeology
• Latin and Etruscan epigraphy

Research Interests

• Mediterranean archaeology
• Italo-Roman architecture and urbanism
• Ancient geography

Research Interests

• Greek and Latin Hagiography
• 11^th- and 12^th-cent. Medieval Latin literature
• Reception of Classical Latin Literature in the medieval period

Teaching Interests

• Medieval Latin Literature
• Latin language and literature, incl. active use of Latin
• Hagiography
• Reception of Greco-Roman Antiquity in the USA

Research Interests

• Archaic and Classical Greek poetry
• Theatre and performance
• Reception studies
• Language pedagogy

Teaching Interests

• Greek and Latin language and literature
• Classical Mythology
• Classical Reception

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

Teaching Interests

• Women in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome
• Race and Ethnicity in Ancient North Africa
• Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh
• Satire from Rome to Colbert
• Ancient Comedy in Performance
• Women in Ancient Theater
• The "Other" in Latin Comedy
• Celtic and "Germanic" Ethnicity in Latin Historians
• Greek and Roman Biography
• Democracy Inaction: Ancient Greek Comedy and American TV Satire
• Greek Songs of Life and Love
• All levels of Latin and Ancient Greek

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

Research Interests

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

Teaching Interests

• Translation theories and practice
• Translation technology
• Palestinian literature and culture

Research Interests

• Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
• Educational Technology
• Egyptology
• Applied Linguistics
• Translation
• Academic Assessment and Placement

Teaching Interests

• Novice Arabic
• Intermediate Arabic
• Advanced Arabic
• Egyptian and Levantine Dialects
• Media Arabic
• Arabic Cinema
• Arabic for Healthcare Professionals
• Business Arabic
• Introduction to Egyptology
• Arabic for Specific Purposes
• Arab Cultures in Global Context

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• Turkish Linguistics
• Theoretical Linguistics (morphosyntax)

Teaching Interests

• Elementary Turkish
• Intermediate Modern Turkish
• Modern Turkish Literature in Translation
• Turkish Media and Pop Culture
• Ottoman Turkish

Research Interests

• The Contemporary Egyptian Novel
• Modern Arabic Literature
• Arab Diasporic Literature
• African Literature
• Postcolonial Studies
• Migration Studies
• Race Studies
• Gender Studies

Teaching Interests

• Modern Arabic Literature
• Arab American and Diasporic Literature
• Postcolonial Theory
• Translation Theory
• The Arabic Language

Research Interests

• Greek and Roman History
• Ancient Mediterranean
• Late Antiquity

Research Interests

• Arabic Culture and Language
• North African Studies
• Popular Culture
• Islamic Studies
• Medieval Western Mediterranean Studies

Teaching Interests

• Arabic Culture and Language
• Islam in Africa and the Mediterranean
• North African Youth Culture
• M. Eastern and North African Literature
• Orientalism

Research Interests

• Ancient Greek Philosophy
• Aesthetics and Performance
• 19th and 20th century Continental and American Philosophy
• Latin American Philosophy

Teaching Interests

• Introduction to Philosophy
• Plato and Aristotle
• Platonic and Socratic Mimesis (graduate class spring 2021)
• Philosophy as a Way of Life (fall 2021)
• Thinking Performance (fall 2022)
• Philosophy and Comedy (spring 2023)
• The Stoics and Politics (fall 2023)
• Latin American Philosophy (fall 2024)

Research Interests

• Zooarchaeology
• Near Eastern Archaeology

Research Interests

• Ancient Greek philosophy
• ancient biological and medical science
• medical ethics
• medieval philosophy

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

Teaching Interests

• History of the Ottoman Empire
• Israel and Palestine
• Modern Middle East
• World War I and the Middle East
• Revolution in the modern Middle East
• Forced migration and refugees in the Middle East
• Immigration and refugee resettlement

Research Interests

• Translation and Culture
• Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies
• Cultural Studies
• The Arabian Nights
• The Bible in Islamic Cultures