Faculty members marked with an asterisk are affiliated with
the undergraduate major in
Middle Eastern Studies offered through Tufts University.
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Rana Abdul-Aziz |
Lecturer in Arabic
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Arabic language |
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Mervat Ali |
Part-time Lecturer in Arabic
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Arabic language |
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Valerie Anishchenkova * |
Lecturer in Arabic
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Arabic literature, language, and culture; film studies |
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Mohammed Bakir Alwan * |
Lecturer in Arabic
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Arabic literature and language |
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Gloria J. Ascher * |
Associate Professor of German
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Judaic and Sephardic studies; Ladino language and culture |
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Paula Aymer |
Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Expertise: immigration, conflicts, and resettlement |
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Daniel W. Brown |
Associate Professor of German
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Swahili, German |
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Lucy Der Manuelian * |
Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Professor of
Armenian Art and Architectural History
Department of Art & Art History
Expertise: Medieval Armenian architecture, sculpture, and
illuminated manuscripts; art, religion, and politics of the Middle
Ages; Byzantium; the Crusades; Western Europe and Armenia |
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Peter Der Manuelian |
Lecturer in Egyptology; Giza Archives Project
Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Department of Classics
Expertise: Egyptian archaeology |
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Richard Eichenberg |
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Expertise: U.S. foreign policy and public opinion on the Middle East |
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Amira El-Zein * |
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Arabic and Islamic studies |
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George Ellmore |
Associate Professor of Biology; Director,
Environmental Studies Program
Department of Biology
Expertise: environmental studies |
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Leila Fawaz * |
Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and
Eastern Mediterranean Studies; Director, The Fares Center for
Eastern Mediterranean Studies
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Department of History
Expertise: modern history of the Middle East |
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David Henry Feldman |
Professor of Child Development
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Expertise: cognitive development projects in Israel |
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Sol Gittleman |
Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor,
Professor of German
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: German; Judaic studies |
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Anna Hardman |
Lecturer in Economics
Department of Economics
Expertise: urbanization in the Middle East |
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Steven W. Hirsch * |
Associate Professor of Classics, Adjunct
Professor of History
Department of Classics; Department of History
Expertise: Ancient history and historiography; Greek and Latin
language and literature; Ancient Persia and China |
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Eva Hoffman * |
Associate Professor of Art History
Department of Art & Art History
Expertise: Islamic art |
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Ayesha Jalal * |
Professor of History
Department of History
Expertise: South Asian history |
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Richard Jankowsky |
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
The Department of Music
Expertise: Music, Ritual, and Religion in North
Africa and the Middle East |
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Paul Joseph |
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Expertise: sociology of war and peace;
globalization |
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Hava Kimelman |
Lecturer in Hebrew
Department of German, Russian, and Asian
Languages and Literature
Expertise: Hebrew language |
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Brigitte Lane |
Associate Professor of French
Department of Romance Languages
Expertise: immigration in France; film studies |
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Tomer Levi |
Lecturer
Department of German, Russian, and Asian
Languages and Literature
Expertise: Modern history of Jews in Arab lands; Jewish
life in port-cities in the Middle East; philanthropy in colonial context; banking families |
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Beatrice Manz * |
Associate Professor of History
Department of History
Expertise: Central Asia; Medieval power and
politics in the Middle East |
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George Marcopoulos * |
Professor of History
Department of History
Expertise: Southeastern Europe; Byzantium; European diplomatic
history |
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Ina Baghdiantz McCabe * |
Professor of History, Darkjian Jafarian Chair
of Armenian History
Department of History
Expertise: Armenian history; Julfan Armenians in Safavid Iran and
India |
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Rahel Meshoulam |
Lecturer in Hebrew
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Hebrew language |
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Malik Mufti * |
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Expertise: international relations |
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Jeanne Marie Penvenne |
Associate Professor of History
Department of History
Expertise: African history |
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Joel Rosenberg * |
Lee S. McCollester Associate Professor of
Biblical Literature, Associate Professor of Judaic Studies
Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
Expertise: Judaic studies |
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Pearl Robinson |
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Expertise: transitions in Africa |
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Paulette Anne Smith |
Assistant Professor of French
Department of Romance Languages
Expertise: Francophone African and Caribbean literature |
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Tony Smith |
Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Expertise: France and Algeria; imperialism |
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Enrico Spolaore * |
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Expertise: political economy, international
economics, economic growth and development |
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Jeffrey Summit |
Associate Professor of Music, Lecturer in
Judaic Studies; Executive Director, Tufts Hillel; Associate Chaplain
Department of Music; Department of German, Russian, and Asian
Languages and Literature
Expertise: identity construction and melody choice in Jewish worship |
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Jeffrey Taliaferro |
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Expertise: security studies; international conflict |
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Reed Ueda |
Professor of History
Department of History
Expertise: immigration to the United States; global migration |
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Donald Wertlieb |
Professor of Child Development; Director, Tufts
University Center for Children
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Expertise: Middle East partnership projects in Israel and Kuwait |
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Jonathan Wilson |
Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate,
Professor of English
Department of English
Expertise: creative writing; contemporary American novel;
contemporary Jewish writing |
