Oriental Studies

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Faculty

Walter Armbrust

Anthropology, Egypt, Mass media, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Egypt, Popular Culture, and Bruno Latour

Imre Bangha

Bengali (বাংলা), Bengali Language & Literature, Bengali Literature, Gujarati Literature, Hindi Literature, Hindi, Urdu, Braj, Hindavi, Hindi/Urdu, Indian Literature, Islam in India, and Literary culture of Bengal

Joseph David

Oriental Studies

Elizabeth Frood

Ancient Egyptian Religion, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Egyptian History, Egyptian language, Egyptology, Late Egyptian, and Oriental Studies

Nicola Harrington

Egyptology, Ancestor Worship, Ancient Religion, Anthropology, Archaeology of Childhood, Domestic Religion, Funerary Archaeology, Funerary Belief (Egyptology), New Kingdom (Egyptology), and Predynastic (Egyptology)

Robert Hoyland

Oriental Studies

Nadia Jamil

Oriental Studies

James Mallinson

Sanskrit, Yoga, Yogis, Anthropology, Art, Art History, History, Humanities, Languages and Linguistics, and Literature

Robert Mayer

Oriental Studies, Tantric Studies, Tantric Buddhism, Textual Criticism, and rNying ma tradition

Dirk Meyer

Argumentation Theory and Critical Thinking, Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Textual Culture, Cultural History, Intellectual History, Manuscript studies, codicology, palaeography, medieval paper, Chaucer, circulation of texts and books, history of the book, electronic editing and digital humanities, Manuscripts & Material Culture, and Oriental Studies

Chloe Ragazzoli

Egyptology, History, and History of Scholarship

Avi Raz

Arab-Israeli conflct, Israel's Foreign Policy, Middle East Studies, Oriental Studies, and Palestinian national movement

David Taylor

Ancient Near East, Ancient Sociolinguistics, Aramaic, Bilingualism in the Ancient world, Church of the East theology, Comparative Linguistics, Contact Linguistics, Dialectology, Diglossia, and History of Interpretation

Luke Treadwell

History, Islamic Art, and Oriental Studies

Theo Van Lint

Oriental Studies

Oliver Watson

Ceramics (Archaeology), Islamic Archaeology, Islamic Art, Oriental Studies, Early Islamic Archaeology, Early islamic pottery, Islamic pottery, and Medieval ceramics (Archaeology)

Zeynep Yurekli-Gorkay

Islamic Art and Ottoman Studies

toufoul abou-hodeib

Cultural History, Intellectual History, Middle East Studies, Ottoman History, Critical Theory and Frankfurt School, Frankfurt School, Marxism, and Marxist theory
Post-Docs

Talal Al-Azem

Oriental Studies, Cultural Memory, Islamic Codicology, Islamic History, Islamic Law, Islamic Studies, Mamluk Studies, Manuscript Studies, and Seljuks (Islamic History)

Cynthia Jean

1 Millenium Mesopotamian History, Ancient Mesopotamian Religions, Assyria, Assyriology, Contextualizing Ancient Magic, Mesopotamia History, Mesopotamian Religions, Ancient Near East, Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, and Assyrian archaeology

T.M. Law

Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman), Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (in Theology/Biblical Studies), Old Testament, Oriental Studies, Patristics, Religion, and Second Temple Judaism

Matthew Melvin-Koushki

Arabic Literature, Iranian Studies, Islamic Esotericism, Islamic Studies, Medieval Studies, Middle Eastern History, Persian Literature, Shi'ism, Sufism, and Timurids (Islamic History)

Ralf Ralfi

Intellectual History and Oriental Studies

Meredith Riedel

Byzantine History, Cultural History, Cultural History of War, Historiography, History of Christianity, History of Religion, Intellectual History, Just War, Medieval History, and Middle East Studies

Aaron Rosen

Lucy Wadeson

Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Classics, Nabataeans (Archaeology), Near Eastern Archaeology, and World Literatures

Ilya Yakubovich

Ancient Indo-European Languages, Ancient Near East, Historical Linguistics, Hittite, Hittitology, Indo-European Linguistics, Indo-European Studies, Iranian Studies, and Loanword, Language contact & change

ivan panović

Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Arabic Dialects, Arabic Language and Linguistics, Arabic Sociolinguistics, Computer-Mediated Communication, Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Literacy Studies, Cyberanthropology, and Cybercultures
Graduate Students

Habib Abdur-Rahman

Arabic Philosophy, Comparative Law, Islamic Economics, Islamic Law, Law, Legal Reform, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Philosophy Of Law

Kamaluddin Ahmed

Abbasid Intellectual History, Critical thinking in Islamic Jurisprudence, Epistemology, Hadith Studies, Intellectual History, Islamic Edcuation, Islamic Epistemology, Islamic Ethics, Islamic History, and Islamic Intellectual History

Arzoo Ahmed

Cosmology (Physics), Intellectual History, Islamic Philosophy, Oriental Studies, Philosophy of Cosmology, Reason and Revelation, and Religion

Nikoloz Aleksidze

Armenian Studies, Eastern Christianity, Georgian Studies, Historical Theology, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, Patristics and Late Antiquity, South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), Comparative Linguistics, Georgian Manuscripts, and Neoplatonism

Djene Rhys Bajalan

19th Century (History), British History, European History, First World War, History, Iranian Azarbaijan(Atrpatakan), Iraq, Kurdish Studies, Late Ottoman Period, and Marxism

Harith Bin Ramli

Cultural History, History, History of the Islamic World, Indian Ocean History, Intellectual History, Islam in Malay Society, Islam in the Southeast Asia, Islamic History, Islamic Law, and Islamic Philosophy

Emilio Bonfiglio

Armenian Studies, Byzantine Studies, Classics, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Patristics, Syriac Studies, Textual Criticism, Theology, and Translation Studies

Nadia Bou Ali

Oriental Studies

Yuen Lai Winnie CHAN

Architecture, Chinese Art, Chinese Studies, Garden History, History (Architecture), Landscape History, and Sinology

Jewel Yunju Chen

History of Medicine

Jewel YunJu Chen 陳韻如

Area Studies, Cultural History, History, and Oriental Studies

Saagarika Dadu

13th century mercantile communities of iran, History Of Medicine In South Asia, Indo-European Studies, International Development, International Education, International organizations, Persian Language, South Asian Studies, and South West Asian Studies

Amara Elahi

Arabic/Persian Manuscripts, codicology, Islamic philosophy, early Islamic history and thoughts, Comparative Literature, Medieval Islamic and Turco-Iranian world, Mongol world empire Seljuk, Mongol, post-Mongol, and Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500) Comparative empire, frontier, and political culture Persian and Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Medieval Literature, Oriental Studies, Pre-Islamic Persian History, Sasanian History, and classical Persian literature

Lucia Galli

Oriental Studies

Luk Gary

Chinese Studies, Chinese history (History), Colonialism, Colonialism, Imperialism, Empire, East Asian Studies, and History

Maziyar Ghiabi

20th century Iranian history, Comparative Politics, Drug Policy, History of Narcotics and Drugs, International Relations, Iranian Studies, Middle East Politics, Middle East Studies, Oriental Studies, and Political Theory

Corin Golding

Anthropology Of Religion, Anthropology of Pilgrimage, Asian Studies, Buddhist Studies, Comparative Religion, Ethnography, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Indian Studies Or Indology, Language and Identity, and Philosophy of Anthropology

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

3D Modelling (Architecture), Afterlife landscapes, Ancient DNA Research, Ancient Egyptian Architecture, Ancient Egyptian Cosmology, Ancient Egyptian Iconography, Ancient Egyptian Queenship, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient Near East (Archaeology), and Anthropology of Pilgrimage

Ali Gümüsay

Academic entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Islamic Business Ethics, Islamic Entrepreneurship, Islamic Studies, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Transfer, Professional Services Firms, and Quranic Studies

Laura Hawkins

Assyriology, Comparative Semitics, Linguistics, and Oriental Studies

Yanran He

Chinese Religions and Chinese culture in Asia

Xiaoqing He

Art History, Tibetan Studies, Turkic Speaking Peoples, and Uyghur

Naoko Hosokawa

Oriental Studies

Gareth Hughes

Ancient Near East, Arab Christian Studies, Aramaic, Aramaic Dialectology, Central Asian History (Area Studies), Church of the East theology, Computing, Early Christianity, Early Church, and History of the Mongol Empire

Chris Jones

Buddhism, Buddhism especially mahayana Buddhist tradition, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Psychology, Buddhist Sanskrit, Buddhist Studies, Buddhist iconology, Newar Buddhism, and Oriental Studies

Hilary Kalmbach

Cultural History, Egyptian History, History of Religion, Intellectual History, Islamic Education & Islamic Schooling, Islamic Studies, Middle East History, Social History, Syria, and Women and Gender Issues in Islam

Kate Kelley

Assyriology, Cultural Anthropology, Early Writing, Proto-Elamite Period, and third millennium societies and trade networks (ANE)

Ahmad Khan

Yvette K. Khoury

Drama, Humanities, Literature, Performing Arts, Shakespeare, and Theatre Studies

Marwan Kilani

Aegeo-Egyptian relations, Altaic Linguistics, Archaeology, Central Asia, Central Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Egyptology, Japanese Studies, Languages and Linguistics, and Near Eastern Studies

Julia Ley

Oriental Studies

Jane Liu

Modern China (especially late Qing and Republican history)

Reem Mansour

Action Research, Anthropology, Area Studies, Gender Discourse, Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies, Qualitative methodology, Religion & the Public Sphere, Religion and Politics, and Religion, Media, and Culture

Ian Morris

Early Islamic History, Umayyads (Islamic History), Arab Conquests, Arab-Byzantine numismatics, Arab-Byzantine relations in the Medieval Mediterranean, Arabic Papyrology, Heresy in Late Antiquity, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Mawali, and Orientalism

Daniel Nicolae

Evidence Based Medicine, History Of Science In Islam, History of Medicine, History of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Psychology of Religion, and Science and Religion

Amy Norman

Anthropology Of Religion, Buddhism, Ecocriticism, Japanese Language And Culture, Museum Ethnography, Sanskrit language and literature, Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Sanskrit, Critical Theory and Frankfurt School, and Devadasi

Cecily Nowell-Smith

Cultural History, Early Modern (Japanese History), Haiku and tanka, Human Geography, Japanese History, Modern Japanese History, and Social History

Idi Okilo

Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ancient Egyptian language, Ancient Nubia, Archaeology, Coptic (Languages And Linguistics), Demotic, Egyptology, Nubian-Egyptian Relations, and Sahidic Coptic

Daisy Parsons

Anthropology, Archaeology, Environment, History, Humanities, Psychology, Religion, Social Sciences, Theology, and Women's Studies

Simin Patel

Colonial Bombay, the Parsi community, Colonialism, Imperialism, Empire, and Urban History

Rob Persson

Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Egyptian language, Egyptology, Third Intermediate Period, Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, Ancient Near East, Arabic, Archaeology, Comparative Literature, and Coptic Studies

Goran Petrovic-Kosovic

History of the Modern Middle East, International Relations of Middle East, and Middle East Politics

Salam Rassi

Historical Theory, History of the Islamic World, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Medieval History, Medieval Islamic and Turco-Iranian world, Mongol world empire; Seljuk, Mongol, post-Mongol, and Ottoman Anatolia (1200-1500); Anatolia (1200-1500); Comparative empire, frontier, and political culture; Persian and Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Racial, Ethnic, and Sectarian Aspects of Works of Early American Missionaries to the Near East, Religion And Indentities, and History

Noelle Richardson

Oriental Studies, Orientalism (Postcolonial Studies), South Asia, and South Asian Studies

Donna Rizk

Middle Eastern Christianity and Oriental Studies

Paul Rollason

Atomic Bomb Literature, Cultural History, Japanese Cultural Studies, Japanese Literature, Japanese SF, Japanese Studies, and Video Game Studies

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Classical Liberalism, Ideology, Iranian History, Iranian Modern History, Iranian Studies, Islamic Law, Islamic Liberalism, Islamic Reformism, Islamic Studies, and Liberalism

Rohana Seneviratne

Atharvaveda, Philosophy of Grammar, Sanskrit Grammar and Linguistics, and Vedic Sanskrit

Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili

r research interests: Classical and contemporary Persian Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Social Change

Rachel Silberstein

Chinese Art, Fashions of the Qing Dynasty, History of Dress, Material Culture in Chinese History, and Narrative textiles

Laura Smith

20th century Iranian history, Contemporary Movements and Trends in Islam, Cultural History, Egyptian History, Historiography, History, History of Iran, History of Mass Media, Intellectual History, and Iranian Studies

Adam Talib

Arabic Literature, Classical Arabic Poetry, 20th century Arabic Literature, Abbasid History, Arabic, Arabic Dialects, Arabic Language and Linguistics, Arabic Palaeography, Arabic Poetry, and Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies

Jen Thum

Archaeological Method & Theory, Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Egyptology, Funerary Archaeology, Graeco-Roman Egypt, and Oriental Studies

Lik Hang (Lincoln) Tsui

Asian History, Book History, China Tang~Song Dynasties, Chinese Studies, Chinese Textual Culture, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese history (History), Cultural History, Historical Anthropology, and Intellectual History

Thomas Wide

Intellectual History, Oriental Studies, and central asia, Russia, Afghanistan, Turkey and China in historical perspective

Selena Wisnom

Ancient Near East, Assyriology, Intertextuality, Poetry, Sumerian & Akkadian literature, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Epic poetry, and Translation of Poetry

Rindy Zhang

Buddhist Art, Central Asian Studies, Tang Dynasty, Tibetan Studies, and Tombs (Medieval Studies)

Pegah Zohouri Haghian

Area Studies, Communication, Media Policy, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Social Sciences, and Sociology

Katja Zvan Elliott

Anthropology, Area Studies, Development Studies, Development in the Middle East and North Africa, Gender, Humanities, Islam, Islam (Anthropology), Islamic History, and Islamic Studies

jason birch

Buddhist Studies, Hinduism, Oriental Studies, Sanskrit language and literature, and Yoga

farid boussaid

Undergraduates

Alice Butt

Internet and Oriental Studies

Paulina Dominik

19. and early 20. century Ottoman literature, Late Ottoman Period, Modern Turkey, Ottoman History, Ottoman Literature, Ottoman-Polish Relations, Poland, Turkish Literature, and Turkish-Polish Relations

Shirley Lee

Classics, Korean Literature and Culture, Oriental Studies, and Persian Literature

Meijia Ling

Ayurveda, Buddhist Studies, Intellectual History, and Oriental Studies

Megan Powell

Anthropology, Cultural History, Egyptology, History, Islamic Law, Middle East Studies, Oriental Studies, and Religion

Yasmine Seale

Oriental Studies

Elliott Smith

Oriental Studies
Members

Miriyam Asfar

Internet Studies and Middle East Studies

Idriss Jebari

Antonio J. Morales

Egyptian Religion (Egyptology), Egyptian Ritual Texts, Egyptian language, Egyptology, Funerary Belief (Egyptology), History of Egyptology, Kingship (Egyptology), Middle Kingdom, Mortuary literature, and Myth (Archaeology)

Kerem Oktem

Cities and urban politics in the Middle East, Muslim diasporas in Europe and the US, Muslims in Europe, Nationalism, National Identity, Ottoman Balkans, South East European Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish and Armenian Studies, and Turkish and Middle East Studies

Arietta Papaconstantinou

Abbasid History, Al-Andalus, Ancient Greek Historiography, Ancient Historiography, Ancient Near East, Ancient Near East (Archaeology), Ancient Nubia, Ancient economy, Arab Christian Studies, and Arabic Papyrology

Jill Sudbury

Oriental Studies, Ritual, and Tibetan religion

Klaus Wagensonner

Akkadian, Akkadian Language, Akkadian, Sumerian, Egyptian, Ancient Grammar, Ancient Maya Knowledge, Ancient Near Eastern Languages, Art History, Assyriology, Classic Maya (Archaeology), and Classification (Computer Science)
Alumni

Nadeem Ahmed

Ancient Greek ethics, Arabic Historiography (History), Arabic Philosophy, Hellenistic Philosophy, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Information Philosophy, Information Science, Metaphysics, Oriental Studies, and Philosophy

Maya Goldberg

Aristotle in Syriac, Book of Ecclesiastes, East Syriac Scholasticism, Oriental Studies, Syriac Studies, Theodore bar Koni, and Theodore of Mopsuestia

Klaus Hachmeier

Arabic Literature, Islamic Economics, Islamic History, Islamic Philosophy, and Oriental Studies

Anna Hodgkinson

Aegeo-Egyptian relations, Africa (Archaeology), Amarna Studies, Anatolian Archaeology, Ancient Civilization (Archaeology), Ancient Craftmanship (Archaeology), Ancient Egyptian History, Ancient Egyptian Iconography, Ancient Technology (Archaeology), and Ancient Trade & Commerce (Archaeology)

Deborah Jacobs

Biblical Studies, Early Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman), Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (in Theology/Biblical Studies), Jewish Studies, New Testament, Old Testament, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Pseudepigraphical Texts, and Second Temple Judaim, Early Christianity, Pseudepigrapha

Lubica Pollakova

Caucasus, Central Asia, Modern Turkey, Persian Language, South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), and Turkish, Turkmen and Azerbaijan Languages

Dominik Wujastyk

Ayurveda (Sanskrit language and literature), Ayurvedic Medicine, Buddhist Sanskrit, History Of Medicine In South Asia, History of Mathematics, Indian Studies Or Indology, Indian studies, Manuscript Studies, Pali, and Pali literature & language
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