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Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Department Chair: Sudipta Kaviraj, Ph.D.
610 Kent
Tel: 212.854.0714


Director of Graduate Studies: Timothy Mitchell, Ph.D.
612 Kent
Tel: 212.854.5252


Faculty

Muhsin Jassim Al-Musawi:
Professor, Ph.D., Dalhousie, 1978
Interests: Arabic literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gil Anidjar:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1998
Interests: Comparative literature, medieval philosophy and theology, Islamic and Christian Spain (12th-15th centuries), Kabbalah, Jewish literature, Arabs and Jews in medieval and modern Europe
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Allison Busch:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 2003
Interests: Indian literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Uri Cohen:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D, Hebrew University, 2004
Interests: Modern Hebrew literature
Hamid Dabashi:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1984
Interests: Comparative study of cultures, Islamic intellectual history, social and intellectual history of medieval and modern Iran
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mamadou Diouf:
Professor, Ph.D., Paris I Sorbonne, 1981
Interests: Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sudipta Kaviraj:
Professor, Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru, 1979
Interests: South Asian politics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nanor Kenderian:
Assistant Professor, D.Phil., Oxford, expected 2009
Interests: Armenian studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rashid Khalidi:
Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1974
Interests: Middle Eastern history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mahmood Mamdani:
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs), Ph.D., Harvard, 1974
Interests: Reproduction of political identities, institutional reproduction of knowledge, particularly in what is called "African Studies"
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joseph Massad:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1998
Interests: Modern Arab politics and intellectual history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Brinkley Messick:
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1978
Interests: Cultural theory, historical anthropology, law, ethnography of writing, political economy; Middle East, North Africa
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dan Miron:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1967
Interests: Hebrew literature and culture; Yiddish literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Timothy Mitchell:
, Ph.D., Princeton, 1984
Interests: Modern Middle Eastern history and politics, especially Egypt; critical political economy; science and technology studies.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sheldon Pollock:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1975
Interests: Sanskrit
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Frances Pritchett:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1981
Interests: Modern Indic languages
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Noha Radwan:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 2004
Interests: Arabic literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
George Saliba:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1974
Interests: History of Arabic and Islamic science especially the development of planetary theories and their transmission to Renaissance Europe.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nader Sohrabi:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1996
Interests: Turkish language, literature and culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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