Name

Area

Research Interests

Samad Alavi

Persian Language and Literature

Modern Iranian poetry, Iranian history, Middle Eastern literatures, literary theory, translation studies

Cindy Ausec

Near Eastern Religions / Egyptian Art and Religion

Personal piety in ancient Egypt

Justin Mauro Benavidez

Arabic and Islamic Studies

Sufism in al-Andalus and the Maghrib, tafsir of the Quran, and the history of al-Andalus

Andrea Creel

Syro-Palestinian Art and Archaeology

Ritual, gender, identity and the household in Late Bronze/Iron Age southern Levant

Jay Crisostomo

Cuneiform Studies (Assyriology)

Sumerian grammar, Linguistics, Scribal education, Comparative Semitics, Akkadian translations of Sumerian, Textlinguistics

Dana DePietro

Art and Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean

Late Bronze Age trade and exchange, organic trade goods and elite identity

Daniel S. Fisher

Hebrew Bible

Social-scientific criticism, religious and literary traditions of the ancient Near East, history of biblical interpretation

Roy A. Fisher

Near Eastern Religions

Social memory and identity construction in early biblical interpretation

Rhiannon Graybill

Hebrew Bible

Prophetic revelation, intellectual history, Critical Theory

Lissette Jimenez

Egyptian Art and Archaeology

Greco-Roman Period, cross-cultural interaction and exchange, foreign relations, cultural identity

Alison Joseph

Hebrew Bible

Biblical history and memory, redaction and literary criticism

Hasan Karatas

Ottoman/Islamic Studies

15th century Ottoman Empire, formation and elaboration of the scholastic system

Stephanie Langin-Hooper

Mesopotamian Art History

Hellenistic Babylonian terracotta figurines, postcolonial approaches to cross-cultural interaction, Hellenistic Akkadian

Jean Li

Egyptian Art and Archaeology

Constructions of identity and Egyptian international relations in the 1st millennium

Zachary Markwith

Arabic and Islamic Studies

The intellectual and spiritual history of Shi'ism, Persian Sufi poetry and prose, and the principles of Islamic Law

Elizabeth Minor

Egyptian and Nubian Archaeology

Cultural and economic interaction between Egypt and Nubia, Second Intermediate Period and Classic Kerma Period, material culture, agency

Kiersten Neumann

Mesopotamian Art and Archaeology

Neo-Assyrian Art and Archaeology, religion and ritual in the Ancient Near East, cross-cultural interaction and exchange

M. L. Pruitt

Near Eastern Archaeology

Archaeology of inter-cultural relations, Middle Bronze Age, Mesopotamia, Southern Levant, social memory, cultural identity

Barbara Richter
(Web)

Egyptology (philology and religion)

Ptolemaic Egyptian temple reliefs, magical papyri,
Netherworld books

Elizabeth Claire Saylor

Arabic and Persian Literature, Hebrew language, Islamic Art and Architecture

Representation of art & architecture in Classical Arabic prose and poetry, emphasis on comparative studies.

Kevin L. Schwartz

Persian Language and Literature

History of Iran, Indo-Persian history and culture, Persian travel literature, historiography.