Middle East Center Affiliated Faculty 

Walter Andrews, Ph.D. Michigan (1970), Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Turkish and Ottoman language and literature. Email: walter@u.washington.edu 

Jere L. Bacharach, Ph.D. Michigan (1967), Professor Emeritus, History;  history of the Islamic Middle East; numismatics of the Islamic world. Email: jere@u.washington.edu 

Gad Barzilai, Ph.D. Hebrew University (1987) and LL.B. (1983), Visiting Faculty, JSIS, Political Science; law and politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, human rights and comparative studies of political regimes and constitutional settings. Email: gbarzil@u.washington.edu

Susan Benson, M.A. Utah (1983); Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Arabic and Persian. Email: susanb9@u.washington.edu

Jonathan Brown, Ph.D. Chicago (2006), Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Early Islamic history. Email: brownj9@u.washington.edu

Daniel Chirot, Ph.D. Columbia (1973), Professor, Sociology and International Studies; ethnic conflict; American policy and the new international economic order, tyranny. Email: chirot@u.washington.edu  

Ilse D. Cirtautas, Ph.D. Hamburg (1958), Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Turkic languages and literatures. Email: icirt@u.washington.edu 

Angela Close, Ph.D. Cambridge (1975), Associate Professor, Anthropology; archaeology, lithic analysis, paleolithic study of North Africa, Europe. Email: aeclose@u.washington.edu 

Terri DeYoung, Ph.D. California-Berkeley (1988), Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Arabic language and literature. Email: tdeyoung@u.washington.edu 

Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, Ph.D. Utah (1985), Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic grammatical tradition, foreign language acquisition pedagogy and methodology, language policy and language planning. Email: hme3@u.washington.edu

Pauline Erera, Ph.D. Cornell (1983), Associate Professor, School of Social Work; family and social issues in Israel. Email: ererap@u.washington.edu

Ellis Goldberg, Ph.D. California-Berkeley (1983), Professor, Political Science, Director Middle East Center; politics and political theory of the Middle East. Email: goldberg@u.washington.edu 

Jim Green, Ph.D. University of Washington (1977), Senior Lecturer, Anthropology; South Asian Islam, cross-cultural health systems. Email: jwgreen@u.washington.edu 

Nicholas Heer, Ph.D. Princeton (1965), Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Arabic language and literature, Islamic theology and philosophy. Email: heer@u.washington.edu 

Martin Jaffee, Ph.D. Brown (1980), Professor, Jackson School; Judaism in late antiquity. Email: jaffee@u.washington.edu 

Ellen Kaisse, Ph.D. Harvard (1977), Associate Professor, Linguistics; phonology, historical linguistics, ancient and modern Greek. Email: kaisse@u.washington.edu 

Anna Kartsonis, Ph.D. New York University (1982), Associate Professor Art History; Medieval, Early Christian, and Byzantine art. Email: kartsoni@u.washington.edu 

Resat Kasaba, Ph.D. State University of New York, Binghamton (1985), Professor, Jackson School and Sociology; political economy of the world system and the Middle East. Email: kasaba@u.washington.edu 

Khodi Kaviani, Ph.D. University of Washington (2003), Teaching Associate, College of Education; multicultural education, teaching about the Middle East at the K-12 level. Email: khodi@u.washington.edu

Selim Kuru, Ph.D. Indiana (2000), Associate Professor, Ottoman and Turkish language and literature. Email: selims@u.washington.edu

Clark Lombardi, Ph.D. Columbia University (2001); J.D. Columbia University (1998), Assistant Professor, School of Law; Islamic law, constitutional law, constitutionalization of Islamic law in Muslim countries and impact on legal development. Email: lombardi@u.washington.edu

Shaun Lopez, Ph.D. University of Michigan (2004); Assistant Professor, History (appointment to begin (fall term 2006); modern Middle East history, medieval Islam, women and gender in Islam. Email: stlopez@u.washington.edu

Frederick (Rick) Lorenz, JD Marquette Law School (1971); Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies; international law and peacekeeping. Email: lorenz@u.washington.edu

Pierre MacKay, Ph.D. California-Berkeley (1964); Professor Emeritus, Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Greek literature, post classical and Byzantine Greek literature. Email: mackay@cs.washington.edu 

Brian McLaren, Ph.D. MIT (2001), Assistant Professor, Architecture; history and theory of architecture, architecture and culture during the period of Italian colonization of North Africa. Email: bmclaren@u.washington.edu

Karen Mathews, Ph.D. Chicago (1995), Lecturer, Art History; Islamic art, iconography, mosques and madrasas. Email: kmathews@u.washington.edu

Joel Migdal, Ph.D. Harvard (1972), Professor, Jackson School; Third World development, the Middle East, Arab-Israeli conflict. Email: migdal@u.washington.edu 

Karine Nahon, Ph.D. Tel Aviv University (2004), Assistant Professor; School of Information; Internet and the Middle East, global information systems. Email: karineb@u.washington.edu

Scott Noegel, Ph.D. Cornell (1994), Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Literature and Jackson School; Hebrew Bible, Assyriology and Medieval Hebrew Poetics. Email: snoegel@u.washington.edu 

Arzoo Osanloo, Ph.D. Stanford (2002), Associate Professor, Law, Justice & Society Program and Anthropology; gender and Islam, human rights and the Islamic state. Email: aosanloo@u.washington.edu

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, Ph.D. University of California-Los Angeles (2003), Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Near Eastern Languages & Literature; medieval and modern Persian literature; Persian mysticism, Persian language. Email: fpmatin@u.washington.edu

Cabeiri DeBergh Robinson, Ph.D. Cornell (2003), Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies; political Islam, India, Pakistan, human rights. Email: cdr33@u.washington.edu

Haideh Salehi-Esfahani, Ph.D. Pennsylvania (1985), Senior Lecturer, Economics; international economics, development economics. Email: haideh@u.washington.edu 

Philip Schuyler, Ph.D. University of Washington (1979), Associate Professor, and Chair, Ethnomusicology; music of the Middle East.  Email: pds2@u.washington.edu

Naomi Sokoloff, Ph.D. Princeton (1980), Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; modern Hebrew language and literature. Email: naosok@u.washington.edu 

Joel Walker, Ph.D. Princeton (1998), Associate Professor, History; Late Antiquity, pre-Islamic Near East; Syriac Christianity; Jerusalem. Email: jwalker@u.washington.edu 

Dan Waugh, Ph.D. Yale (1972), Professor Emeritus, History and Jackson School; medieval Russia, Central Asia, Ottoman history. Email: dwaugh@u.washington.edu 

James Wellman, Ph.D. Chicago (1995), Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies;

Michael Williams, Ph.D. Harvard (1977), Professor, Jackson School and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; early Christianity and religions of antiquity. Email: maw@u.washington.edu 

George Wright, Ph.D. Michigan (1977), Researcher, Family Medicine; health systems of Central Asia. Email: gwright@fammed.washington.edu  

Farhat Ziadeh, Barrister-at-Law University of London (1946), Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; Arabic language and literature, Islamic institutions. Email: farhat@u.washington.edu 

Craig Zumbrunnen, Ph.D. California-Berkeley (1973), Professor, Geography; Central Asian geography, demographics, urbanization. Email: craigzb@u.washington.edu 

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