Faculty and Staff

Director

Rubina K. Salikuddin

Assistant Professor and Director of the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African Studies Program on the Isabel Hamilton Benham Professorship in International Affairs
Areas of Focus

Medieval and early modern Iran and Central Asia, history of religion, commemoration and collective memory.

Contact
Location Old Library 219 - Office
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Steering Committee

Grace Morgan Armstrong

Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor Emeritus of French and Francophone Studies and Program Director of Middle Eastern Languages
Areas of Focus

French Middle Ages, stylistics, women writers

Contact
Location Old Library
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Jennie Bradbury

Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
On Leave
Areas of Focus

Social complexity in the ancient Near East; the role of "non-optimal" zones; burial traditions and mortuary practices; landscape archaeology, GIS and archaeological survey techniques; and cultural heritage.

Contact
Location Old Library 214 - Office
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David S. Byers

Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Research
Areas of Focus

Ethical theory, Psychoanalysis, Queer and trans theory, Clinical theory and practice, Adolescence, Bullying, International social work, Qualitative research.

Contact
Location GSSWSR 218 - Office
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Edwige Crucifix

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Graduate Advisor
Areas of Focus

20th and 21st C. Francophone Literature, Maghreb, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies.

Contact
Location Old Library 146 - Office
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Rocco Palermo

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Major Advisor (A-J)
Areas of Focus

Ancient Empires, Archaeology of South-West Asia from the Iron Age to the Roman Period, Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, Pottery Studies, Fieldwork Methodologies and Techniques.
 

Contact
Location Old Library 221 - Office
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Wu Xin

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
On Leave
Areas of Focus

Achaemenid Empire; Central Asian Art and Archaeology; Cultural interactions between the East and West

Contact
Location Old Library 233 - Office
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Staff