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  Behrad Aghaei

  Lecturer-Persian Language

  Syntax & Morphology; Iranian Languisticsaghaeib@umich.edu

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  Mohammad Alhawary

  Associate Professor of Arabic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition

  734.647.0096 / abuamr@umich.edu

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  Wijdan Alsayegh

  Lecturer-Arabic Language 3149 Thayer Bldg.

  734.647.4715 / wsayigh@umich.edu

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  Evelyn Alsultany

  Associate Professor of American Culture 3527A Haven Hall

  734.615.4627 / alsultan@umich.edu

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  Paolo Asso

  Assistant Professor of Classical Studies 2029H Tisch Hall

  734.764.0360

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  Kathryn Babayan

  Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture

  734.763.1597 / babayan@umich.edu

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  Kevork Bardakjian

  Marie Manoogian Professor of Armenian Language and Literature

  734.763.7655 / kbar@umich.edu

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  Carol Bardenstein

  Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture

  734.647.4648 / cbardens@umich.edu

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  Fawzia Bariun

  Lecturer of Arabic

  Arabic Language and Literaturefbariun@umich.edu

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  Maya Barzilai

  Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Culture

  734.647.4240 / brmaya@umich.edu

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  Gary Beckman

  Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies

  734.764.0314 / sidd@umich.edu

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  Gabriele Boccaccini

  Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Early Rabbinic Literature

  734.763.1595 / gbocca@umich.edu

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  Michael Bonner

  Professor of Islamic History 4147 Thayer Bldg.

  734.647.0093 / mbonner@umich.edu

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  Eric Calderwood

  Professor

  ecalderw@umich.edu

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  John Ciorciari

  Assistant Professor of Public Policy

  734.615.6947 / johncior@umich.edu

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  Erdem Cipa

  Assistant Professor of Early Ottoman History 3012 Thayer Bldg.

  647.4637 / ecipa@umich.edu

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  Joshua H. Cole

  Associate Professor
  Director, Center for European Studies 1640 Haven Hall

  734.763.4159 / joshcole@umich.edu

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  Juan Cole

  Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies 2527 Haven Hall

  jrcole@umich.edu

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  Frieda Ekotto

  Hunting Family Fellow Institute of the Humanities
  Professor of Comparative Literature
  Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies

  734.764.5386 / ekotto@umich.edu

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  Milka Eliav

  Lecturer-Modern Hebrew

  734.764.1439 / milka@umich.edu

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  Yaron Eliav

  Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish History of Late Antiquity

  734.647.4638 / yzeliav@umich.edu

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  Todd Endelman

  William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History 1029 Tisch Hall

  Modern Jewish Historyendelman@umich.edu

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  Amal Hassan Fadlalla

  Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Afro-American and African Studies, and Anthropology

  Gender Studies; Medical Anthropology; Analysis of Fertility, Sexuality, Health, Identity, and Population in Gender Dynamics; Social Inequalities, and local/global political economies in Africa and the Middle East734.764.5513 / afadlall@umich.edu

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  Hussein Fancy

  Assistant Professor 2528 Haven Hall

  Medieval Europe and North Africa; the Mediterranean; the Crusades; the Cultural, Social, and Intellectual History of Religious Interaction; Ritual, Violence, and Kingship; Latin, Arabic, Romance, and Judeo-Arabic Paleography.734.647.5409 / fancy@umich.edu

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  John V. A. Fine

  Professor 1642 Haven Hall

  734.763.2231 / jvafine@umich.edu

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  Marjorie Fisher

  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Egyptology

  734.647.4672 / djoser@umich.edu

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  Kent Flannery

  4025 Museums

  Archeology of Early Agricultural Communities in the Near East and Mesopotamian734.764.0485 / kflanner@umich.edu

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  Benjamin Fortson

  Associate Professor of Greek and Latin Language, Literature and Historical Linguistics 2150 Angell Hall

  734.764.1579 / fortsonb@umich.edu

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  Elliot Ginsburg

  Associate Professor of Jewish Thought

  734.763.4670 / elgins@umich.edu

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  Fatma Müge Göçek

  Interim Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

  734.647.4228 / gocek@umich.edu

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  Christiane Gruber

  Associate Professor 10A Tappan Hall

  734.764.5400 / cjgruber@umich.edu

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  Gottfried Hagen

  Associate Professor of Turkish Studies

  734.763.1596 / ghagen@umich.edu

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  Rima Hassouneh

  Lecturer II 3645 Haven Hall

  734.615.4614 / rhassoun@umich.edu

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  Jarrod Hayes

  Associate Professor of French 4220 MLB 1275

  French and Francophone Literature of the 20th Century; 19th Century Orientalism; Gender Studies: Queer Theory & Post-Colonial Theory734.647.2670 / hayesj@umich.edu

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  Jeffrey Heath

  Professor of Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Arabic and Linguistic Anthropology 418 Lorch

  734.764.0353 / jheath@umich.edu

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  Sharon Herbert

  John G. Pedley Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology & Greek; Director, Kelsey Museum 249 Kelsey Museum

  734.647.0446 / sherbert@umich.edu

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  Meilu Ho

  Assistant Professor of Musicology

  mlho@umich.edu

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  Peter Hook

  Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Indo-Aryan Languages

  Typology; Syntax-semantics Interface; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Exoliguisticspehook@umich.edu

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  Pauline Jones Luong

  Professor 7632 Haven Hall
  734.764.5207

  pjluong@umich.edu

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  Alexander Knysh

  Professor of Islamic Studies

  734.615.1963 / alknysh@umich.edu

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  Kader Konuk

  Associate Director

  konuk@umich.edu

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  Doron Lamm

  Lecturer-Modern Hebrew
  Coordinator of the Modern Hebrew Language Program

  734.647.4165 / dlamm@umich.edu

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  Trevor Legassick

  Professor of Arabic Literature

  734.763.1593 / tleg@umich.edu

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  Melvyn Levitsky

  Professor, International Policy and Practice, Public Policy
  Ambassador (retired)

  734.615.4262 / levitsky@umich.edu

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  Rudi Lindner

  Professor 1672 Haven Hall

  History of Steppe Nomads; Early Ottoman History; Late Byzantine History; History of the Physical Sciences; Islamic coins and monetary History; Historiographyrpl@umich.edu

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  Karla Mallette

  Associate Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies 4010 MLB 1275

  734.647.2351 / alrak@umich.edu

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  Hrach Martirosyan

  2009-2010 Manoogian Simone Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow

  hmartir@umich.edu ,
  hrch.martirosyan@gmail.com

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  Khaled Mattawa

  Associate Professor of English

  Arab American Literature, Translation Theory and Practice, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Contemporary American Poetry.kmattawa@umich.edu

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  Piotr Michalowski

  George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

  734.764.0314 / piotrm@umich.edu

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  Ellen Muehlberger

  Assistant Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity 4163 Thayer Bldg.

  734.615.2960 / emuehlbe@umich.edu

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  Nadine Naber

  Associate Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies 3733 Haven Hall

  734.647.0878 / ncnaber@umich.edu

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  Douglas Northrop

  Associate Professor 2519 Haven Hall

  734.647.4616 / northrop@umich.edu

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  Shachar Pinsker

  Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature and Culture

  734.764.8103 / spinsker@umich.edu

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  Raji Rammuny

  Professor of Arabic and Applied linguistics

  734.763.1594 / raram@umich.edu

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  Christopher Ratté

  Professor of Classical Archaeology
  IPCAA Director 2132 Angell Hall

  734.936.3888 / ratte@umich.edu

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  Janet Richards

  Professor of Egyptology Kelsey Museum

  734.647.4672 / jerichar@umich.edu

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  Jennifer Robertson

  Professor 204-C West Hall, 170C Tappan Hall

  734.763.4682 / jennyrob@umich.edu

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  Margaret Root

  Professor and Curator 170F Tappan Hall and the Kelsey Museum

  734.764.9304 / mcroot@umich.edu

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  Ilan Rosenberg

  Lecturer-Modern Hebrew

  734.647.4303 / ilanr@umich.edu

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  Brian Schmidt

  Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Mediterranean West Asian Cultures

  bschmidt@umich.edu

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  Nilay Sevinc

  Lecturer-Turkish Language

  nsevinc@umich.edu

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  Nejat Seyhun

  Professor of Finance

  734-763-5463 / nseyhun@umich.edu

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  Anton Shammas

  Professor of Comparative Literature
  Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Literature
  Professor of Near Eastern Studies

  antons@umich.edu

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  Andrew Shryock

  Professor, Anthropology 205-C West Hall

  Modernity; Historical Ethnography, Oral Tradition; Tribe-State Relations; Identity Politics; (Trans) Nationalism; Middle East and Middle Eatern Communities in North America734.764.9939 / ashryock@umich.edu

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  Walter F. Slater

  Slavic Cataloger; Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Division; University Library

  734.647.8894 / wfslater@umich.edu

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  Amr Soliman

  Associate Professor

  International Cancer Epidemiologyasoliman@umich.edu

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  Ryan Szpiech

  Assistant Professor of Spanish 4140 MLB 1275

  Medieval Iberian Literatures, Sephardic Studies, Medieval Islam.734.647.2334 / szpiech@umich.edu

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  Mark Tessler

  tessler@umich.edu

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  Arland Thornton

  Professor

  arlandt@umich.edu

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  Ruth Tsoffar

  Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Women's Studies

  rtsoffar@umich.edu

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  Arthur Verhoogt

  Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek 2178 Angell Hall

  734.936.6101 / verhoogt@umich.edu

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  Susan Waltz

  Professor of Public Policy

  Universal Human Rights Emergant Norms in International Relations: Regulating the Small Arms Trade734.615.8683 / swaltz@umich.edu

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  Rudolph (Butch) Ware

  Assistant Professor 2510 Haven Hall

  734.647.7943 / rudyware@umich.edu

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  Paula Weizman

  Lecturer-Modern Hebrew

  734.647.4822 / pauliw@umich.edu

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  Robert Whallon

  4040 Museums

  734.764.7570 / whallon@umich.edu

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  T.G. Wilfong

  Professor of Egyptology 202 South Thayer Street
  Suite 4012 - 1608

  twilfong@umich.edu

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  Mark Wilson

  Professor

  Epidemiology; International Healthwilsonml@umich.edu

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  Henry Wright

  4044 Museums

  734.763.9221 / hwright@umich.edu

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  Norman Yoffee

  Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies

  Mesopotamian Studies; Anthropology734.647.4637 / nyoffee@umich.edu

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