Faculty
Director: Marlow (Religion)
Advisory Committee: Euben (Political Science), Geller (Religion), Hajj (Political Science) Kapteijns (History), Malino (History and Jewish Studies), Marlow (Religion)
Assistant Professor: Aadnani
Visiting Lecturer: Zitnick
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow: Ramadan
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Rachid Aadnani
Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies
B.A., Universite Moulay Ismail (Morocco); M.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Binghamton University
Teacher of Arabic language and literature.
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Roxanne Euben
Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Comparative political theorist, specializes in interactions between Islamic and Western thought; secretary of American Political Science Association.
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Barbara Geller
Professor of Religion
A.B., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Interests include the Jewish and Christian communities of the Roman Empire, women in the Biblical world, and the history of Jerusalem.
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Nadya S. Hajj
Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Research driven by this question: What are the origins of institutions among marginalized groups in anarchic systems?
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Lidwien Kapteijns
Elizabeth Kimball Kendall and Elisabeth Hodder Professor of History
B.A., Universiteit van Amsterdam; M.A., University of London; Doctoraal, Ph.D., Universiteit van Amsterdam
African historian focusing on Somalia and Sudan; translator of historical and popular culture texts in Arabic and Somali.
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Frances Malino
Sophia Moses Robison Professor of Jewish Studies and History
B.A., Skidmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University
Director of Jewish Studies, research in Jewish and European history, founding member of Digital Heritage Mapping and Diarna project.
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Louise Marlow
Professor of Religion
B.A., Cambridge University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Program Director for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Yasmine Ramadan
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies
B.A., M.A., American University (Cairo); M.A., M.Phil., Columbia University
Research focuses on modern and contemporary Arabic literature, comparative literature, post colonialism, and spatial theory.
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Dan Zitnick
Visiting Lecturer
B.A., M.A., University of Michigan
Teacher of Arabic language.
