Postdoctoral Scholars

Field of Study

Khaled M. Abou El Fadl

Professor
Kinda Al Rifae

Lecturer in Arabic
Solange Ashby

Assistant Professor
Carol Bakhos

Professor
Arnold Band

Professor Emeritus
Sariel Birnbaum

Lecturer in Hebrew
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 Emerita of Iranian Archaeology
Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney

Professor
Michael Cooperson

Professor; Department Chair
S. Peter Cowe

Distinguished Professor, Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies
Zeynep Durmus

Lecturer in Turkish
Lara Fabian

Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Michael Fishbein

Lecturer Emeritus
Nouri Gana

Professor
Nile Green

Professor
Latifeh Hagigi

Senior Lecturer Emerita
Lev Hakak

Professor Emeritus
Abeer Hamza (Mohamed)

Lecturer in Arabic
Tereza Hovhannisyan

Lecturer in Armenian
Domenico Ingenito

Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and Persian Literature
Ralph Jaeckel

Lecturer Emeritus
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Adjunct Professor of Persian Literature
Gina Konstantopoulos

Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Hagop Kouloujian

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

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology
Nahid Pirnazar

Lecturer in Judeo-Persian
Ismail K. Poonawala

Professor Emeritus
Banafsheh Pourzangi

Lecturer in Persian
Yona Sabar

Professor Emeritus
Asma Sayeed

Associate Professor; Co-Director of the Islamic Studies Program
William Schniedewind

Professor; Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Sahba Shayani

Lecturer in Persian
M. Rahim Shayegan

Professor, Amuzegar Chair in Ancient Iranian; Director, Iranian Studies; Director, Pourdavoud Institute
Susan Slyomovics

Distinguished Professor
Jeremy Smoak

Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Marissa Stevens

Pourdavoud Institute Assistant Director
Willeke Wendrich

Research Professor Emeritus
Jonathan Winnerman

Assistant Professor of Teaching; Associate Director of Global Antiquity
Luke Yarbrough

Associate Professor; Co-Director of the Islamic Studies Program; Director of Graduate Studies
Tony Yates

Assistant Professor