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Faculty Directory

Name and Specialization

Office Phone

Office

Email Address

Rutie Adler
Lecturer in Hebrew. Linguistics, Hebrew linguistics.

642-4076

270 Barrows

radler@berkeley.edu

Wali Ahmadi
Associate Professor of Persian Literature.

643-6164

284 Barrows

ahmadi@berkeley.edu

Ayla Algar
Lecturer in Turkish. Turkish language and literature, language pedagogy.

642-2019

290 Barrows

ayla@berkeley.edu

Hamid Algar
Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Persian Literature. Islamic culture, religion, philosophy; Sufism and the Qur'an.

642-6179

286 Barrows

algar@berkeley.edu

Robert Alter
Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature. Hebrew literature, modern and biblical.

642-6457

4315 Dwinelle

altcos@berkeley.edu

Hatem Bazian
Lecturer in Arabic. Arabic language.

642-7792
282 Barrows

hatemb@berkeley.edu

Chava Boyarin
Lecturer in Hebrew. Modern and Biblical Hebrew literature, classics.

642-1752

260 Barrows

chava@berkeley.edu

Daniel Boyarin
Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture). Cultural studies in Talmud and Midrash; gender and sexuality; hermeneutics; ancient Judaism and Christianity.

642-8356
248 Barrows

boyarin@berkeley.edu

Marian Feldman
Associate Professor in Near Eastern Art. Ancient Near Eastern art; Eastern Mediterranean interconnections; Bronze Age Aegean art and archaeology.

642-7793

244 Barrows

feldman@berkeley.edu

John L. Hayes
Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Semitics. Semitic linguistics, Arabic, Akkadian, Sumerian.

642-6183

268 Barrows

jlhayes@berkeley.edu

Ronald Hendel
Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible. Ancient Hebrew language, literature, religion and culture.

642-6174

276 Barrows

hendel@berkeley.edu

Chana Kronfeld
Professor of Modern Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Modern Hebrew Literature. Literary theory; Yiddish language and literature, linguistic methods in literary criticism.

642-6177

272 Barrows

kronfeld@berkeley.edu

Margaret Larkin
Professor of Arabic Literature.

643-5158

274 Barrows

larkin@berkeley.edu

Sanjyot Mehendale
Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology. Central Asia.

643-5265

294 Barrows

sanjyotm@berkeley.edu

Laurie Pearce
Lecturer in Akkadian. Assyriology, Akkadian, and Cuneiform.

642-7792

282 Barrows

lpearce@berkeley.edu

Jaleh Pirnazar
Lecturer in Persian. Modern Iranian history. Persian language and literature.

642-6181

264 Barrows

 pirnazar@berkeley.edu

Benjamin Porter
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology.

642-7794

240 Barrows

bwporter@berkeley.edu

Carol Redmount
Chair of Near Eastern Studies, Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology.

642-5637

242 Barrows

redmount@berkeley.edu

Francesca Rochberg
Professor of ancient Near Eastern history, history of science with a focus on ancient astronomy and astrology.

642-6182

262 Barrows

rochberg@berkeley.edu

Martin Schwartz
Professor of Iranian Studies. Pre-Islamic Iranian language, culture and Society; Middle Persian and Iranian philology; Zoroastrianism; Manichaeism, Indo-European, poetics and Semitics.

642-6176

278 Barrows

martz@berkeley.edu

Sonia Shiri
Lecturer in Arabic. Arabic language and literature.

643-6635

288 Barrows

shiri@berkeley.edu

Muhammad Siddiq
Professor of Arabic Literature. Comparative Literature. Arabic and Hebrew literature.

642-7943

266 Barrows

siddiq@berkeley.edu

Niek Veldhuis
Associate Professor of Assyriology. Ancient Mesopotamian languages and cultures.

642-6175

280 Barrows

veldhuis@berkeley.edu

 

Emeritus Faculty

   

 

Name and Specialization

Office Phone

Office

Email Address

Guitty Azarpay, Professor of Near Eastern studies. Near Eastern Art.
Ph.D. University of California.

azarpay@comcast.net

William Brinner, Recipient of Distinguished Teaching Award, Professor of Islamic institutions: Arabic, Judeo-Arabic.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley.

zebrin@berkeley.edu

Wolfgang Heimpel, Professor of Mesopotamian and Sumerian cultures.
Ph.D. University of Heidelberg.

w1j2h3@berkeley.edu

Anne D.Kilmer, Professor of Assyriology. Akkadian, Mesopotamian culture, literature and music.
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania.

 

adkilmer@cox.net

David Larkin
Lecturer in Egyptology.

642-6173

292 Barrows

James Monroe, Professor of Classical Arabic Literature. Hispano-Arabic literature, and comparative literature.
Ph.D. Harvard University.

642-1505

4410 Dwinelle

monroe@berkeley.edu


David Stronach, Professor of the Near Eastern art and archaeology.
M.A. Cambridge University.

527-8663 4410 Kains stronach@berkeley.edu
       


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In Memoriam:

Cathleen A. Keller, Chair of Near Eastern Studies, Associate Professor of Egyptology.
Ancient Egyptian language, history, art history. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. In Memoriam.

Ruggero Stefanini (Professor Emeritus). Anatolian studies and Hittite.
Dottore in Lettere University of Florence. In Memoriam.

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