Faculty

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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