Professor
Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor
Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies
Affiliated Professor, Gender Studies
Research areas: Pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; Quranic hermeneutics; Hadith studies; Exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Gender roles.
Professor
Program Director, Arabic Flagship Center
Research areas: Arabic linguistics with a special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax.
Lecturer
Research interests include teaching Arabic as a second language, he is also interested in Arabic phonology and sociolinguistics.
Senior Lecturer
Research areas: Teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic grammar and morphology; Arabic literature; Language of Arabic science heritage; Medical terminology.
Associate Professor
Chair, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Director of Graduate Studies
Research areas: Modern Arabic literature and culture, comparative literature and cultural studies, Arab Spring, autobiography, literary theory.
Professor
Director, Program in Ancient Studies
Adjunct Faculty, History, Classics, and Religious Studies
Research areas: Late antique social and cultural history, with special focus on the Eastern Mediterranean; Byzantium.
Professor
Research areas: Modern Hebrew Language and Literature; Fiction of S. Y. Agnon; American experience of Jews and Hebrew writers; Hebrew poetry.
Associate Professor
Research areas: Israeli identity and multiculturalism; Stratification; Gender; Race/ethnicity/nation; Immigration.
Associate Professor
Academic Director, Arabic Flagship Center
Research areas: Second Language Acquisition; Discourse Level Analysis of the Speech Act of Refusal in Egyptian Arabic; Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication.
Associate Professor
Research areas: Civil wars; Ethnic strife and other Territorial conflicts; Muslims in Western Politics; Political Islam.
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research areas: Ancient Egyptian language and literature; History of Graeco-Roman Egypt Ancient Egyptian transportation and trade, especially boats and ships.
Professor
Research areas: Islamic philosophy and Islamic intellectual history, emphasis on the cultural role of philosophy and science; Baha'i studies, Islamic Studies, Islamic History.
Senior Lecturer
Research areas: Teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic grammar and morphology, phonology and syntax; Arabic literature; Dialects; The role of culture in learning a foreign language; Theories of language acquisition; Comparative Linguistics.
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