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Please note: Faculty members must be approved to represent a specific concentration on a student's Special Committee.

  • Kimberly Bowes -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: archaeology of late antiquity; archaeology of religion; domestic architecture; landscape archaeology; later Roman economies

  • Ross Brann -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: Judeo-Islamic studies; Muslim Spain

  • Muhammad Dadi -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: comparative modernities; critical and post-colonial theory; modern South Asian and Islamic Art

  • Ziad Fahmy -- Research interests: nationalism and state formation in the 19th- and 20th-century Centyr Middle East

  • Kim Haines-Eitzen -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: varieties of early Christianity and early Judaism; Greco-Roman religions; gender studies

  • Sturt Manning -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: Aegean and East Mediterranean prehistory; classical archaeology; archaeological theory; dendrochronology; climate change; radiocarbon dating in archaeology

  • Lauren Monroe -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: Hebrew bible studies

  • David Owen -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology; Assyriology; biblical history and archaeology; maritime history and archaeology

  • David Patel -- Research interests: Islam in politics; the rise of Islam; identity and politics; political culture

  • David Powers -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: Islamic history and law

  • Eric Rebillard -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: history of Late Antiquity; Augustine; Roman funerary archaeology

  • Cynthia Robinson -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: Medieval and Islamic art and architecture

  • Deborah Starr -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: modern Hebrew and Arabic literature; critical theory; film

  • Eric Tagliacozzo -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: history of borders; smuggling; trade; diaspora in Southeast Asian history

  • Shawkat Toorawa -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: Arabic literature; Islamic studies

  • Munther Younes -- Concentrations: near eastern studies; Research interests: Arabic language and linguistics