Departments & Programs

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Faculty

Chairperson

• Professor M. Nazif Shahrani

College Professor

• Henry Glassie (Emeritus, Folklore and Ethnomusicology)

Professors

• Asma Afsaruddin
• Salman Al-Ani
• Salih Altoma (Emeritus)
• Devin DeWeese (Central Eurasian Studies)
• Hasan El-Shamy (Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
• John Hanson (African Studies, History)
• Stephen Katz (Jewish Studies)
• W. Eugene Kleinbauer (Emeritus, Fine Arts)
• Consuelo López-Morillas (Emerita, Spanish and Portuguese)
• Thomas J. Mathiesen (Distinguished Professor of Musicology, Jacobs School of Music)
• Christine Ogan (School of Journalism)
• Karen Rasler (Political Science)
• M. Nazif Shahrani (Central Eurasian Studies, Anthropology)
• Suzanne Stetkevych
• Ruth Stone (Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
• John Walbridge

Associate Professors

• Jane Goodman (Communication and Culture)
• Matthias Lehmann (History)
• Paul Losensky (Central Eurasian Studies)
• Herbert Marks (Comparative Literature)
• Stephen Vinson

Assistant Professors

• Erdem Çipa (Central Eurasian Studies)
• Christiane Gruber (Fine Arts)
• Kevin Martin
• Abdulkader Sinno (Political Science)

Senior Lecturer

• Cigdem Balim-Harding

Lecturer

• Zainab S. Istrabadi

Undergraduate and Honors Advisor

• Matthew Colglazier, Ballantine 437, (812) 855-6263