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Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students

Staff | Full-Time Faculty | Visiting Faculty | Emeritus Faculty | Grad Students

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BELOW OFFICE ADDRESSES WILL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2009 WHEN THE MEALAC DEPARTMENT WILL MOVE FROM KENT HALL TO KNOX HALL AT 601 WEST 122ND STREET.


Department Chair
Sudipta Kaviraj
Professor, South Asian Politics
410 Knox Hall
212-854-0714
sk2828@columbia.edu
Office Hours: R 11am-1pm

Director of Graduate Studies
Timothy Mitchell
Professor, Arab Studies
405 Knox Hall
212-854-5252
tm2421@columbia.edu
Office Hours: T 4:15-6:15pm

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Nanor Kenderian
Assistant Professor, Armenian Studies
407 Knox Hall
212-851-4002
nk2334@columbia.edu
Office Hours: M 11am-12pm and by appointment

Staff

Jessica Rechtschaffer
Academic Department Administrator
401A Knox Hall
212-854-6512
jr650@columbia.edu

Jill Kitchen
Administrative Assistant
401 Knox Hall
212-854-2560
jk2989@columbia.edu

Leah Smith
Administrative Assistant
401 Knox Hall
212-854-2556
ls2548@columbia.edu

Full-Time Faculty

Ouijdane Absi
Lecturer, Arabic Language
413 Knox Hall
212-854-2057
oa2171@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MTW 4-5PM

May Ahmar
Lecturer, Arabic Language
308 Knox Hall
212-854-9810
ma2550@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MT 12:30-1:30pm

Muhsin Al-Musawi
Professor, Arabic Studies
303 Knox Hall
212-854-4732
ma2188@columbia.edu
Office Hours: WR 3-5pm

Gil Anidjar
Associate Professor, Religion & MEALAC
80 Claremont Avenue, Room 207, MC 9610
212-851-4130
ga152@columbia.edu
Office Hours: T 2-4pm

Ghada Badawi
Lecturer, Arabic Language
301A Knox Hall
212-854-9469
gb2248@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MT 5:15-6:15 pm

Tarik Belhoussein
Lecturer, Arabic Language
308 Knox Hall
212-851-9795
tb2315@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MTWR 2-2:30pm

Taoufik Ben-Amor
Gordon Gray Jr Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies
Arabic Language Program Coordinator
Columbia Arabic Summer Program Director
302 Knox Hall
212-854-2895
tb46@columbia.edu
Office Hours: TR 4:15-5:15pm

Nehama R. Bersohn
Lecturer, Hebrew Language
408 Knox Hall
212-854-6668
nrb1@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Rym Bettaieb
Lecturer, Arabic Language
413 Knox Hall
212-851-0487
rb2555@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MW 2:15-3:15pm

Allison Busch
Assistant Professor, Hindi and Indian Literature
417 Knox Hall
212-854-9626
ab2544@columbia.edu
Office Hours: R 11am-1pm by appointment

Partha Chatterjee
Professor, Anthropology & MEALAC
452 Schermerhorn Ext
pc281@columbia.edu

Jane Clayton
Associate, African languages
309 Knox Hall
212-854-2556
jnc2103@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MW 5:15-5:45pm

Uri Cohen
Assistant Professor, Hebrew Literature
315 Knox Hall
212-854-4761
uc2107@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Hamid Dabashi
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature
414 Knox Hall
212-854-7524
hd14@columbia.edu
Office Hours: M 9-11am

Ghazzal Dabiri
Lecturer, Persian Language
412 Knox Hall
212-854-6664
gd2287@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MW 4:30-5:30pm

Mamadou Diouf
Leitner Professor of African Studies
310 Knox Hall
212-854-4083
md2573@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 3-5pm

Etem Erol
Lecturer, Turkish Language
412 Knox Hall
212-854-0473
ee2105@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MW 12-1pm

Reem Faraj
Lecturer, Arabic Language
413 Knox Hall
212-854-9917
rf2273@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MW 8:45-9:45am

Wael Hallaq
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
515 Knox Hall
212-851-9729
wh2223@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Charry Karamanoukian
Lecturer, Armenian language
307 Knox Hall
212-851-7083
ck2444@columbia.edu
Office Hours: M 10-11:30am

Sudipta Kaviraj
Professor, South Asian Politics
Department Chair
410 Knox Hall
212-854-0714
sk2828@columbia.edu
Office Hours: R 11am-1pm

Nanor Kenderian
Assistant Professor, Armenian Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
407 Knox Hall
212-851-4002
nk2334@columbia.edu
Office Hours: M 11am-12pm and by appointment

Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature, History & MEALAC
401 Fayerweather
212-854-2584
rik2101@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Suman Mallipattana
Lecturer, Hindi-Urdu Language
305 Knox Hall
212-851-5682
svm2108@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Mahmood Mamdani
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government
Anthropology, International Affairs, and MEALAC

415 Knox Hall
212-854-8777
mm1124@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Joseph Massad
Associate Professor, Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History
510 Knox Hall
212-854-4722
jam25@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Brinkley M. Messick
Professor, Anthropology & MEALAC
863 Schermerhorn Ext
212-854-4552
bmm23@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Dan Miron
Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew Literature
314 Knox Hall
212-854-4730
dm20@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Timothy Mitchell
Professor, Arab Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
405 Knox Hall
212-854-5252
tm2421@columbia.edu
Office Hours: T 4:15-6:15pm

Youssef Nouhi
Lecturer, Arabic Language
301A Knox Hall
212-854-1184
yn2162@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Sheldon Pollock
The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
416 Knox Hall
sp2356@columbia.edu
Office Hours: W 4:15-5:30pm

Frances Pritchett
Professor, Modern Indic Languages
313 Knox Hall
212-854-4370
fp7@columbia.edu
On leave Fall 2009. Office Hours: By appointment, please e-mail.

Noha Radwan
Assistant Professor, Arabic Literature
517 Knox Hall
212-854-5137
nr2147@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Dalpat Rajpurohit
Lecturer, Hindi-Urdu Language
305 Knox Hall
212-854-2893
dr2474@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MTW 10:30-11:30am

Rakesh Ranjan
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator Hindi-Urdu Language
409 Knox Hall
212-851-4107
rr2574@columbia.edu
Office Hours: MW 10:30-11:30am

Ruth Raphaeli-Slivko
Senior Lecturer, Hebrew Language
411 Knox Hall
212-854-6519
rr9@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

George Saliba
Professor, History of Islamic Science
306 Knox Hall
212-854-4166
gas1@columbia
Office Hours: MW 2-3pm

Nader Sohrabi
Assistant Professor, Ottoman History
513 Knox Hall
212-854-4766
ns605@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

D. Samuel Sudanandha
Lecturer, Tamil Language
305 Knox Hall
212-854-4702
dss2121@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Mariame Sy
Lecturer, African Languages
304 Knox Hall
212-851-2439
sms2168@columbia.edu
Office Hours:

Visiting Faculty

Susham Bedi
sb12@columbia.edu

Orhan Pamuk
Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities
960 Schermerhorn Extension
jauh@wylieagency.com

Tsipi Rubin
Visting Lecturer, Hebrew Language
408 Knox Hall
Office Hours: MF 10-11am

Somdev Vasudeva
Assistant Professor, Sanskrit
307 Knox Hall
212-854-1304
sv2246@columbia.edu
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Emeritus Faculty

Edward Allworth
Professor Emeritus Turco-Soviet Studies
pjc1@columbia.edu

Theodore Riccardi, Jr.
Indian and Himalayan Culture
tr9@columbia.edu

Ehsan Yarshater
Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies
Director, Center for Iranian Studies

ey4@columbia.edu

Graduate Students

Insaf Ali
ima2104@columbia.edu

Leyla Amzi
la2142@columbia.edu

Safoora Arbab
sa2235@columbia.edu

Ari Ariel
aa2093@columbia.edu

Ari Babinsky
ab3109@columbia.edu

Golbarg Bashi
gb2192@columbia.edu

Soraya Batmanghelichi
ksb2010@columbia.edu

Neda Bolourchi
nb2294@columbia.edu

Raphael Botiveau
rpb2109@columbia.edu

Thomas Casey
thc2114@columbia.edu

Ajay Singh Chaudhary
asc2112@columbia.edu

Owen Cornwall
otc2101@columbia.edu

Corbett Costello
cc2771@columbia.edu

Victor Bartholomew D'Avella
vbd2101@columbia.edu

Abdullah Daouk
aad28@columbia.edu

Arthur Dudney
add2115@columbia.edu

Abdulwahid Duso
ad2777@columbia.edu

Valentine Boatwrright Edgar
vbel@columbia.edu

Abdi Ega
ale2108@columbia.edu

Elazar Elhanan
ee2202@columbia.edu

Elaine Fisher
emf2127@columbia.edu

Michael Golan
mzg2104@columbia.edu

Rebecca Gould
rrs40@columbia.edu

Rawan Hadid
rh2487@columbia.edu

Elizabeth Holt
emh2105@columbia.edu

Mouannes Hojairi
mmh2019@columbia.edu

Farbod Honarpisheh
fh2180@columbia.edu

Elizabeth Johnston
eej2101@columbia.edu

Namrata Kanchan
nk2280@columbia.edu

Omar Khalifah
ok2153@columbia.edu

Mohamad Khan
mk2580@columbia.edu

Nadia Khan
nk2277@columbia.edu

Yasmine Khayyat
ymk2103@columbia.edu

Chad Kia
ck50@columbia.edu

Yuval Kremnitzer
yk2412@columbia.edu

Joel Lee
jgl2119@columbia.edu

Cheryl Leung
cel2129@columbia.edu

Yitzhak Lewis
yml2108@columbia.edu

Katherine McCulloch
kpm2120@columbia.edu

Ashley McKannon
aem2189@columbia.edu

Wesley Michel
whm2104@columbia.edu

Alaa Milbes
ajm2183@columbia.edu

Haroon Moghul
hsm2115@columbia.edu

Leila Mouri Sardar Abady
lm2614@columbia.edu

Tsolin Nalbantian
tn2111@columbia.edu

Kaveh Farzad Niazi
kfn2101@columbia.edu

Golnar Nikpour
gn67@columbia.edu

Cenk Palaz
cc2408@columbia.edu

Sara Pekow
sap2139@columbia.edu

Nabila Pirani
np2347@columbia.edu

Casey Primel
ctp2108@columbia.edu

Dina Ramadan
dar2103@columbia.edu

Yasmine Ramadan
yar2104@columbia.edu

Hamid Rezai
hr2106@columbia.edu

Sam Rubin
ser2156@columbia.edu

Zahra Sabri
zs2164@columbia.edu

Miho Sato
ms3798@columbia.edu

Linda Sayed
ls2168@columbia.edu

Vanessa Schiavi
vs2307@columbia.edu

Suzanne Schneider Reich
sls2001@columbia.edu

Abeer Shaheen
as3110@columbia.edu

Nathanael Shelley
nps2104@columbia.edu

Zoe Slatoff
zps1@columbia.edu

Peter Sobieraj
pcs2129@columbia.edu

Kamal Soleimani
ks2473@columbia.edu

Aditi Surie
ads2165@columbia.edu

Allia Tamzali
at2384@columbia.edu

Audrey Truschke
aat2120@columbia.edu

Kadir Ustun
ku2005@columbia.edu

Nader Uthman
nku2001@columbia.edu

Shreya Vora
snv2103@columbia.edu

Tyler Williams
tw2231@columbia.edu

Veli Yasin
vny1@columbia.edu

Maheen Zaman
maz2105@columbia.edu