Faculty: Middle East Studies at Brown University

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Director

Melani Cammett
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Melani_Cammett@Brown.edu


Faculty

Engin Akarli
Joukoswky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History
Engin_Akarli@Brown.edu

Susan E. Alcock
Director, Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology
Professor of Classics
Susan_Alcock@brown.edu

Mohammad El-Sharkawi

Lecturer in Language Studies, Center for Language Studies

Mohammad_Al-Sharkawi@brown.edu

James P. Allen
Wilbour Professor of Egyptology, Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
jamespallen@Brown.edu

Shiva Balaghi

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cogut Center for Humanities

Shiva_Balaghi@brown.edu

Omer Bartov

Professor of History

Omer_Bartov@brown.edu

Reda Bensmaia
Chair, French Studies
Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature
University Professor
Reda_Bensmaia@Brown.edu

Ziad Bentahar

Visiting Lecturer, Center for Language Studies

Ziad_Bentahar@brown.edu

Laurel Bestock

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Laurel_Bestock@brown.edu

Sheila Bonde
Dean of the Graduate School
Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Sheila_Bonde@brown.edu

Marcy Brink-Danan
Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Marcy_Brink-Danan@Brown.edu

Melani Cammett
Director, Middle East Studies, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Melani_Cammett@Brown.edu

Mirena Christoff
Lecturer in Arabic, Center for Language Studies
Mirena_Christoff@brown.edu

Robert Coolidge

Muslim Chaplain, Chaplains Office

Robert_Coolidge@brown.edu

Eleanor Doumato

Watson Institute

Eleanor_Doumato@brown.edu

Lina Fruzetti
Professor of Anthropology
Lina_Fruzzetti@Brown.edu

Susan Harvey

Professor of Religious Studies

Susan_Harvey@brown.edu

David Jacobson
Director of the Program in Judaic Studies
Professor of Judaic Studies
David_Jacobson@Brown.edu

Pauline Jones Luong
Associate Professor of Political Science.
Pauline_Luong@Brown.eduPauline_Luong@Brown.edu

Sherine Hamdy
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology.
Sherine_Hamdy@brown.edu

Ömür Harmansah
Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Omur_Harmansah@brown.edu

Martha Joukowsky

Prof. Emerita of Old World, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Martha_Joukowsky@brown.edu

Nancy Khalek

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Nancy_Khalek@brown.edu

Chad Kia

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature

Chia_Kia@brown.edu

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Judaic Studies

Sam_Lehman_Wilzig@brown.edu

Maud Mandel
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History
Maud_Mandel@Brown.edu

Eustratios Papaioannou

Assistant Professor of Classics

Eustratios_Papaioannou@brown.edu

Yona Rubinstein

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,

Yona_Rubinstein@brown.edu

Matthew Rutz

Assistant Professor of Egyptology and the Ancient World

Matthew_Rutz@brown.edu

Dris Soulaimani
Lecture in Arabic, Center for Language Studies
Dris_Soulaimani@Brown.edu

Ian Straughn
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Archaeology, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Ian_Straughn@Brown.edu

Nina Tannenwald

Associate Professor of International Studies, WIIS

Nina_Tannenwald@brown.edu

Ipek Tureli

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and Architechture

Ipek_Tureli@brown.edu

Ashutosh Varshney

Professor of Political Science

Ashutosh_Varshney@brown.edu

Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Assistant Professor of History.
Vazira_F-Y_Zamindar@brown.edu

 

Librarians

Ian Straughn
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Archaeology, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Ian_Straughn@Brown.edu

 

Administrator

Margareta Levitsky
Telephone: 401-863-3318
Fax: 401-863-3808
Margareta_Levitsky@Brown.edu