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Staff - Current Faculty - Emeritus Faculty

Staff
Holly Shissler
Director
ashissle@uchicago.edu
(773) 834-4390
Franklin Lewis
Deputy Director
flewis@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-4504
Rusty Rook
Associate Director
rrook@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-8296

Traci Lombre
Project Assistant

Rasheed Hosein
Public Education Project Director
 
Current Faculty
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Hussein Agrama (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2005)
Professor of Anthropology
hagrama@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-4503
Muzaffar Alam (Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1976)
Carl Darling Buck Professor of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
alam@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-7547
Kagan Arik (Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 1999)
Lecturer in Uzbek
kagana@uchicago.edu
(773)834-4471
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Orit Bashkin (Ph.D., Princeton, 2004)
Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies

oritb@uchicago.edu

Persis Berlekamp (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Assistant Professor of Art History

berlekam@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-0250

Philip Bohlman (Ph.D., Illinois, 1984)
Associate Professor of Music
p-bohlman@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-0514
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Fred M. Donner (Ph.D., Princeton, 1975)
Professor of Near Eastern History
f-donner@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-9544
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Muhammad Eissa (Ph.D., Al-Azhar University, 1978)
Lecturer in Arabic
eissa@uchicago.edu
(773) 834-0123
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Ariela Finkelstein (M.A., Chicago, 1996)
Senior Lecturer in Hebrew
Michael Fishbane (Ph.D., Brandeis, 1971)
Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School
Cornell H. Fleischer (Ph.D., Princeton, 1982)
Kanunî Süleyman Professor of Islamic and Ottoman History

Noha Aboulmagd Forster (A.B.D., Princeton, 1983)
Lecturer in Arabic

nforster@uchicago.edu
(773) 834-8349
Victor Friedman (Ph.D., Chicago, 1975)
Professor of Balkan Linguistics; Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
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Saeed Ghahremani (Ph.D. Candidate, Univ. of Toronto, 1998)
Lecturer in Persian
syousef@uchicago.edu
(773) 834-8347
McGuire Gibson (Ph.D., Chicago, 1968)
Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology
m-gibson@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-9525
Norman Golb (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1954)
Ludwig Rosenberger Professor of Jewish History and Civilization
n-golb@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-9526
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Hripsime Haroutunian (Ph.D., Institut Vostokovedeniya, Academy of Sciences, Moscow 1992)
Lecturer in Armenian

Choukri Heddouchi (Ph.D. Student, Chicago)
Lecturer in Arabic
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Janet Johnson (Ph.D., Chicago, 1972)
Professor of Egyptology
j-johnson@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-9530
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Wadad Kadi (Ph.D., American University of Beirut, 1973)
Avalon Professor of Islamic Studies
w-kadi@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-2589
Walter Kaegi (Ph.D., Harvard, 1965)
Professor of Byzantine and Late Roman History
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Bruce Lincoln (Ph.D., Chicago, 1976)
Professor of Divinity
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Marvin Mikesell (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1959)
Professor of Geography
mmikesell@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-8313
Heshmat Moayyad (Ph.D., Frankfurt, 1958)
Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Islamic Literature
hmoayyad@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-9534
Kathleen Morrison (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1992)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Farouk Mustafa (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1977)
Associate Professor (Professorial Lecturer) in Arabic
f-mustafa@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-7473
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Dennis Pardee (Ph.D., Chicago, 1974)
Professor of Hebrew.
d-pardee@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-9541
 
 
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Tahera Qutbuddin  (Ph.D, Harvard, 1999)
Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature

btq@uchicago.edu
(773) 834-8786

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Michael Sells (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature
Holly Shissler (Ph.D., UCLA, 1995)
Director, CMES; Associate Professor, Ottoman History

Matt Stolper (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974)
Professor of Assyriology

m-stolper@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-8932
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Bernard Wasserstein (D.Phil (Oxford),1974; D. Litt (Oxford), 2001)
Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern History
bmjw@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-3627
Lisa Wedeen (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1995)
Associate Professor of Political Science
l-wedeen@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-8065
John E. Woods (Ph.D., Princeton, 1974)
Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History
j-woods@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-8343
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K. Aslihan Yener (Ph.D., Columbia, 1980)
Associate Professor of Anatolian Archaeology
a-yener@uchicago.edu
(773) 702—0568
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Malika Zeghal (Ph.D., Institut d'Etudes Politiques)
Visiting Associate Professor, Divinity School

Emeritus Faculty
Howard Aronson, Professor Emeritus
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and Linguistics- The University of Chicago
hia5@uchicago.edu
phone: (773) 702-8195
Ralph Austen, Professor Emeritus
Department of History
Lanny Bell, Professor Emeritus
Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations - The University of Chicago

l-bell@uchicago.edu
phone: (773) 702-9536

Menachem Brinker, Professor Emeritus
Henry Crown Professor Emeritus, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
menachem2002@yahoo.com
(773) 834-0123
Richard Chambers Professor Emeritus
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
 
Robert Dankoff, Professor Emeritus
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
r-dankoff@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-7909
Gidon A. Gottlieb, Professor Emeritus
Leo Spitz Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago Law School
Harry Hoffner, Professor Emeritus
John. A. Wilson Prof. Emeritus, Oriental Institute; Depts. Near East Lang & Civ and Linguistics, and the College; Editor, Hittite Dictionary
h-hoffner@uchicago.edu
phone: (773) 702-9527
Halil Inalcik, Professor Emeritus
Departments of History & Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations- The University of Chicago, Bilkent University
phone: 90-312-266-5102
inalcik@bilkent.edu.tr
Morton Kaplan, Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science - The University of Chicago
 
Carolyn Killean, Associate Professor Emerita,
Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Linguistics - The University of Chicago

ckillean@pdq.net

Joel Kraemer, Professor Emeritus
John Henry Barrows Professor Emeritus, Divinity School
C.M. Naim, Professor Emeritus
Department South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Manning Nash, Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology - The University of Chicago
phone: (773) 702-7704
John Perry, Professor Emeritus
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations
j-perry@uchicago.edu
(773) 702-7251
Lloyd Rudolph, Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science - The University of Chicago
l-rudolph@uchicago.edu
phone: (773) 702-8056
Jaroslav Stetkevych, Professor Emeritus
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations- The University of Chicago

phone: (812) 331-1545

Edward Wente, Professor Emeritus
Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations- The University of Chicago
e-wente@uchicago.edu
phone: (773) 702-9539
Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus
Graduate School of Business- The University of Chicago
 

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