Faculty

Field of Study

Khaled M. Abou El Fadl

Professor
Kinda Al Rifae

Lecturer
Mohsin Ali

Lecturer

Islamic Studies
Solange Ashby

President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Carol Bakhos

Professor
Arnold Band

Professor Emeritus
Hans Barnard

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Sariel Birnbaum

Lecturer
Catherine Bonesho

Assistant Professor
Aomar Boum

Professor
Giorgio Buccellati

Professor Emeritus
Katherine S. Burke

Lecturer

Islamic Archaeology of the Middle East
Aaron A. Burke

Professor, Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Elizabeth Carter

Professor Emeritus
Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney

Chair, Professor
Michael Cooperson

Professor
S. Peter Cowe

Professor
Zeynep Durmus

Lecturer
Michael Fishbein

Lecturer Emeritus
Nouri Gana

Professor
Nile Green

Professor
Latifeh Hagigi

Senior Lecturer in Persian
Lev Hakak

Professor Emeritus
Abeer Hamza (Mohamed)

Lecturer, Program Coordinator
Tereza Hovhannisyan

Lecturer
Domenico Ingenito

Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and Persian Literature
Ralph Jaeckel

Lecturer Emeritus
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Adjunct Professor
Gina Konstantopoulos

Assistant Professor; Undergraduate Advisor
Hagop Kouloujian

Lecturer, Kachigian Family Lecturer in Armenian Language and Culture
Ali Mousavi

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology
Nahid Pirnazar

Lecturer
Ismail K. Poonawala

Professor Emeritus
Banafsheh Pourzangi

Lecturer
Yona Sabar

Professor Emeritus
Nader Saiedi

Adjunct Professor / Taslimi Lecturer on Baha’i History and Religion in Iran
Asma Sayeed

Associate Professor; Program Director of Islamic Studies
William Schniedewind

Professor; Graduate Advisor
Sahba Shayani

Lecturer
M. Rahim Shayegan

Professor, Amuzegar Chair in Iranian; Director, Program of Iranian Studies
Susan Slyomovics

Distinguished Professor
Jeremy Smoak

Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Marissa Stevens

Pourdavoud Center Assistant Director
Willeke Wendrich

Professor, Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology
Jonathan Winnerman

Academic Administrator
Luke Yarbrough

Associate Professor
Tony Yates

Assistant Professor