| Standing Faculty |
| Roger
M. A. Allen |
Professor of Arabic in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
(modern Arabic literature) |
rallen@ccat.sas.upenn.edu |
| Dan
Ben-Amos |
Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Folklore (African,
Jewish and Middle Eastern Folklore) |
dbamos@sas.upenn.edu |
| Barry L. Eichler |
Associate Professor of Assyriology in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations;
Associate Curator-in-charge Tablet Room - Babylonian Section, University
Museum (Assyriology; ancient Near East; Biblical and Jewish studies) |
beichler@ccat.sas.upenn.edu |
| Grant Frame |
Associate Professor of Assyriology in Near
Eastern Languages & Civilizations |
gframe@sas.upenn.edu |
| Nili Gold |
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (Hebrew
language and literature) |
niligold@sas.upenn.edu |
| Joseph Lowry |
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (medieval
Islam; Islamic law) |
elowry@sas.upenn.edu |
| Heather
Sharkey |
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (Islamic
history, thought and culture) |
hsharkey@sas.upenn.edu |
| David P. Silverman |
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. Professor of Egyptology; Curator, Egyptian Section,
University Museum (Egyptology) |
dsilverm@sas.upenn.edu |
| David
M. Stern |
Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature (Classical Hebrew
and Jewish literature) |
dstern@ccat.sas.upenn.edu |
| Jeffrey
H. Tigay |
Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures
( Biblical Studies) |
jtigay@ccat.sas.upenn.edu |
| Stephen J. Tinney |
Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology; Associate Curator,
Babylonian Section, University Museum (Sumerian language and literature) |
stinney@sas.upenn.edu |
| Josef W. Wegner |
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; Assistant
Curator, Egyptian Section, University Museum (Egyptology, Egyptian archaeology) |
jwegner@sas.upenn.edu |
| Richard L. Zettler |
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations;
Associate Curator-in-Charge, Near East Section of the University Museum |
rzettler@sas.upenn.edu |
| Graduate Group Faculty |
| The standing faculty in the Department is augmented by archaeologists, historians, art historians, and specialists on religions of Near Eastern origin who
share its focus on the primary sources of the Near East. Many of these faculty offer courses that are cross-listed in the Department and are members of the NELC
Graduate Group. |
| Talya Fishman |
Associate Professor of Religious Studies (Jewish intellectual and cultural
history of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods) |
tfishman@sas.upenn.edu |
| Renata Holod |
Professor of History of Art; Curator of Islamic Art, University Museum
(Islamic art) |
rholod@sas.upenn.edu |
| Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet |
Assistant Professor of History (modern Middle East, the Ottoman Empire,
and Iran) |
fks@history.upenn.edu |
| Ian Lustick |
Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science (Middle Eastern politics) |
ilustick@sas.upenn.edu |
| Holly Pittman |
College for Women Class of 1963 Endowed Term Professor of History of Art;
Curator, Near East Section, University Museum (Ancient Near Eastern art) |
hpittman@sas.upenn.edu |
| Brian Spooner |
Professor of Anthropology; Associate Curator-in-Charge, Near East Section,
University Museum (Iranian studies, Middle Eastern anthropology) |
spooner@sas.upenn.edu |
| Richard L. Zettler |
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Associate Curator-in-Charge, Near
East Section, University Museum (Near Eastern archaeology) |
rzettler@sas.upenn.edu |
| Barbara R. von Schlegell |
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Islamic studies) |
brvs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu |
| Emeritus Faculty |
| Robert H. Dyson, Jr. |
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology (Iran) |
robertd@sas.upenn.edu |
| William L. Hanaway |
Emeritus Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Persian) |
whanaway@mec.sas.upenn.edu |
| Erle V. Leichty |
Emeritus Clark Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Emeritus
Curator, Akkadian Language and Literature, University Museum (ancient Near
East) |
| James D. Muhly |
Emeritus Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (ancient Near Eastern
history; Hittitology) |
| Thomas Naff |
Emeritus Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Middle Eastern
history) |
tnaff@sas.upenn.edu |
| David B. O'Connor |
Emeritus Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Emeritus Curator,
Egyptian Section, University Museum (Egyptology; Egyptian archaeology) |
doconnor@sas.upenn.edu |
| Åke W. Sjøberg |
Emeritus Clark Research Professor of Assyriology; Emeritus Curator, Tablet
Collection, University Museum (Sumerian) |
