Professor Emeritus, MELC
Research areas: Arabic Linguistics; Modern Arabic Literature and Literary Criticism; Translation; Arabic-Western Literary Relations (Comparative Literature).
Professor Emeritus
Research areas: Cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism; State and society; Islamic movements; Identity politics; Social change and modernization; Muslim family and gender dynamics in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia.
Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita, MELC
Research areas: Classical Arabic Poetry; Ritual, performance, and Historicist approaches to the qasidah; Praise Poetry to the Prophet.