NELC faculty also hold close connections with the University of Pennsylvania Museum (which draws several of its curators from the faculty of NELC), the Middle East Center, the Center for Ancient Studies, the Program in Ancient History, and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

· Roger M.A. Allen, Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (modern Arabic literature) - home page
· Dan Ben-Amos, Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Folklore & Folklife (African, Jewish and Middle Eastern folklore) - home page
· Paul Cobb, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
· Jamal Elias, Professor of Religious Studies
· Talya Fishman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies (Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods)- home page
· Grant Frame, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (Assyriology and Ancient Near East)
· Nili Gold, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (Hebrew language and literature)
· Jessica L. Goldberg, Assistant Professor of History
· Renata Holod, Professor of History of Art; Curator of Islamic Art, University Museum (Islamic art) - home page
· Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Assistant Professor of History (modern Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, and Iran) - home page
· Joseph Lowry, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (medieval Islam, Islamic law)
· Ian Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science (Middle Eastern politics) - home page
· 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) - home page
· Annette Y. Reed, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
· Heather Sharkey, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (Islamic history, thought and culture)
· David P. Silverman, Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. Professor of Egyptology; Curator, Egyptian Section, University Museum (Egyptology)
· Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology; Curator, Near East Section, University Museum (Iranian studies, Middle Eastern anthropology) - home page
· David M. Stern, Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature (Classical Hebrew and Jewish literature) - home page
· Jeffrey H. Tigay, Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures (Biblical Studies) - home page
· Stephen J. Tinney, Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology; Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, University Museum (Sumerian language and literature)
· Eve M. Troutt Powell , Associate Professor of History (Middle Eastern History) - home page
· Robert Vitalis, Associate Professor of Political Science - home page
· Josef W. Wegner, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; Assistant Curator, Egyptian Section, University Museum (Egyptology, Egyptian archaeology)
· Richard L. Zettler, Graduate Chair, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; Associate Curator-in-Charge, Near East Section, University Museum (Near Eastern Archaeology)

EMERITUS FACULTY

· Robert H. Dyson, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Anthropology (Iran)
· Barry L. Eichler, Emeritus 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)
· William L. Hanaway, Emeritus Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Persian)
· 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)
· David B. O'Connor, Emeritus Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Emeritus Curator, Egyptian Section, University Museum (Egyptology; Egyptian archaeology)
· Åke W. Sjøberg, Emeritus Clark Research Professor of Assyriology; Emeritus Curator, Tablet Collection, University Museum (Sumerian)