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Faculty List


 Hassan Aly, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Professor Emeritus, Economics (Economic Development; Middle East Economics; Applied Microeconomics) email: aly.1@osu.edu 
 Sean Anthony, Ph.D., The University of Chicago Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Early Islam and Late Antiquity; Islamic Thought; Classical Arabic Literature) email: anthony.288@osu.edu 
 Bulent Bekcioglu, MA, The Ohio State University Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Turkish Language) email: bekcioglu.1@osu.edu 
 Naomi Brenner, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/brenner.108 University of California at Berkeley Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture; Literary Multilingualism and Translation; Modern Yiddish Literature and Culture) email: brenner.108@osu.edu 
 John B. Casterline Ph.D., https://www.sociology.osu.edu/people/casterline.10 University of Michigan Professor, Sociology (Family; Methodology; Population) email: casterline.10@osu.edu 
 Stratos Constantinidis, Ph.D., https://theatre.osu.edu/people/constantinidis.1 University of Iowa Professor, Theater (Critical Theory Plato - Present; Research Method; Classical Drama; Medieval Drama; Elizabethan Drama; Aesthetic Styles; English Novel 19th Century; Greek Drama 15th - 20th Century; Greek Cinema; Greek Novel; Script Analysis; Translation; Adaptation; Creative Writing) email: constantinidis.1@osu.edu 
 Magda El-Sherbini, MA, https://nelc.osu.edu/people/el-sherbini.1 Catholic University of America Professor and Head Librarian, Middle East Studies Collection (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Turkish Studies; Global Information Society; Multilingual Subject Access and Access to Foreign Materials) email: el-sherbini.1@osu.edu 
 Carter Findley, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/findley.1 Harvard University Professor Emeritus, History (Islamic History; Comparative Empires; Power, Culture, and the State) email: findley.1@osu.edu 
 Daniel Frank, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/frank.152 Harvard University Associate Professor, Coordinator of Hebrew Language Program, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Medieval Jewish History; Bible, Judeo-Arabic) email: frank.152@osu.edu 
 Joseph Galron, M.L.S., https://library.osu.edu/people/galron.1 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Associate Professor and Jewish Studies Librarian, Special Collections and Area Studies (Germanic Languages and Literatures; Jewish Studies; Yiddish) email: galron.1@osu.edu 
 Matt Goldish, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/goldish.1 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor, History (Jewish History; Environment, Health, Technology, and Science; Religion in History) email: goldish.1@osu.edu 
 Esther Gottlieb, Ph.D., https://projectnarrative.osu.edu/people/gottlieb.26 University of Pittsburgh Senior Advisor for International Affairs and Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education, Office of International Affairs (Curriculum Assessment and Reform; Internationalization of the Learning Experience; World-Class Education; Higher Education) email: gottlieb.26@osu.edu 
 Fritz Graf, Ph.D., https://classics.osu.edu/people/graf.65 University of Zurich Distinguished University Professor, Director of Epigraphy, Classics (Greek Epigraphy; History of Scholarship; Ancient Religions and Mythologies) email:graf.65@osu.edu 
 Peter Hahn, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/hahn.29 Vanderbilt University Professor and Dean of Arts and Humanities, History (US History since 1877; Diplomatic History; Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy) email: hahn.29@osu.edu 
 Jane Hathaway, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/hathaway.24 Princeton University Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, History (Islamic History; Comparative Empires; Religion in History ) email: hathaway.24@osu.edu 
 Richard Herrmann, Ph.D., https://polisci.osu.edu/people/herrmann.1 University of Pittsburgh Professor Emeritus, Political Science (International Relations; American Foreign Policy) email: herrmann.1@osu.edu 
 Susan Huntington, Ph.D., https://history-of-art.osu.edu/people/huntington.1 University of California at Los Angeles Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, History of Art (South Asian Art and Culture; Buddhist Art and Artifacts) email: huntington.1@osu.edu 
 Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., https://germanic.osu.edu/people/jacobs.8 Columbia University Professor Emeritus, Germanic Languages and Literatures (Yiddish Phonology and Morphology; History of the Yiddish Language; Yiddish Linguistic Geography) email: jacobs.8@osu.edu 
 Pranav Jani, Ph.D., https://english.osu.edu/people/jani.4 Brown University Associate Professor, English (Postcolonial Studies; US Ethnic Studies; Marxism) email: jani.4@osu.edu 
 Xinquan Jiang, Ph.D., https://oia.osu.edu/directory University of Michigan Senior Research Associate, Office of International Affairs (Chinese; Korean; Internationalization in Higher Education; Assessment of Intercultural Competence) email: jiang.533@osu.edu 
 Hadi Jorati, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/jorati.2 Yale University Assistant Professor, History (Islamic Iran and Persianate Cultures; The Sciences in Islamic Traditions; Classical Arabic and Persian Historiography) email: jorati.2@osu.edu 
 Robin Judd, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/judd.18 University of Michigan Associate Professor, History (Modern European History; Jewish History; Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy; Power, Culture, and the State; Race, Ethnicity, and Nation; Religion in History) email: judd.18@osu.edu 
 Anthony Kaldellis, Ph.D., https://classics.osu.edu/people/kaldellis.1 University of Michigan Professor and Chair of Department, Classics (Greek Historiography, Plato, Byzantine Studies) email: kaldellis.1@osu.edu 
 Mehrak Kamali-Sarvestani, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/kamalisarvestani.1 University of Arizona Lecturer and Persian Language Program Coordinator, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Persian Language; Persian Literature; Contemporary Iranian Society) email: kamalisarvestani.1@osu.edu 
 Ousman Kobo, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/kobo.1 University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Professor, History (African History; Comparative Empires; Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy; Race, Ethnicity, and Nation; Religion in History) email: kobo.1@osu.edu 
 Rattan Lal, Ph.D., https://senr.osu.edu/our-people/rattan-lal The Ohio State University Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources (Environmental Quality and Sustainability; Food Security; Climate Change and Soil Carbon; Soil Degradation and Restoration) email: lal.1@osu.edu 
 Scott Levi, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/levi.18 University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor, History (Islamic History; Russian and East European History; Global Early Modern; Comparative Empires; Religion in History) email: levi.18@osu.edu 
 William Liddle, Ph.D., https://polisci.osu.edu/people/liddle.2 Yale University Professor Emeritus, Political Science (Islam; Southeast Asia) email: liddle.2@osu.edu 
 Morgan Liu, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/liu.737 University of Michigan Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Ethnological Approaches to Cities, Space, and Materiality; Anthropology of the State, Post-socialism, and Neoliberalism; Oil and Energy Industries in Central Asia and Azerbaijan; Cultural Anthropology of Muslim Societies) email: liu.737@osu.edu 
 Peter Mansoor, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/mansoor.1 Ohio State University Professor, General Raymond Mason Chair of Military History, History (US History since 1877; Military History; Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy) email: mansoor.1@osu.edu 
 Danielle Marx-Scouras, Ph.D., https://frit.osu.edu/people/marx-scouras.1 Columbia University Professor, French and Italian (Contemporary French and Francophone Literature; Intellectual History and Theory; Popular Music) email:marx-scouras.1@osu.edu 
 Melinda McClimans, Ph.D., https://mesc.osu.edu/people/mcclimans.2 Ohio State University Assistant Director, Middle Eastern Studies Center (Critical Global Education; Pedagogy/Learning; Middle East Curriculum) email: mcclimans.2@osu.edu 
 Joy McCorriston, Ph.D., https://anthropology.osu.edu/people/mccorriston.1 Yale University Professor, Anthropology (Archaeology; Environmental Anthropology; Paleoecology; Behavioral Ecology; Social-ecological Systems) email: mccorriston.1@osu.edu 
 Sam Meier, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/meier.3 Harvard University Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Hebrew Bible; Ancient Semitic Languages and Texts; Comparative Semitic Linguistics) email: meier.3@osu.edu 
 Katherine Meyer, Ph.D., https://sociology.osu.edu/people/meyer.23 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Associate Provost and Professor Emeritus, Sociology (Political Sociology and Social Movement; Religion; Social Change and Conflict) email: meyer.23@osu.edu 
 Ila Nagar, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/nagar.5 The Ohio State University Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Sociolinguistics, Ethnography, Language Variation and Change; Language, Gender, and Sexuality; South Asia Studies and Hindi Pedagogy) email: nagar.5@osu.edu 
 Alam Payind, Ph.D., https://mesc.osu.edu/people/payind.1 Indiana University Director, Middle East Studies Center https://mesc.osu.edu/ Adjunct Professor, International Studies https://internationalstudies.osu.edu/ and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Islamic Jurisprudence; Geopolitics) email: payind.1@osu.edu 
 John Quigley, L.L.B., https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/professor/john-b-quigley/ Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus, College of Law (International Law) email: quigley.2@osu.edu 
 Tamar Rudavsky, Ph.D., https://philosophy.osu.edu/people/rudavsky.1 Brandeis University Professor, Philosophy (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; Jewish and Islamic Philosophy; Phenomenology and Existentialism) email: rudavsky.1@osu.edu 
 Danielle Schoon, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/schoon.2 University of Arizona Senior Lecturer, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Turkish Studies; Romani Studies; Performance Studies; Ethnography) email: schoon.2@osu.edu 
 Johanna Sellman, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/sellman.13 The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Contemporary Arabic Literature; Migration and Diaspora; Translation Studies; Visual Culture of the Middle East) email: sellman.13@osu.edu 
 Ahmad Sikainga, Ph.D., https://history.osu.edu/people/sikainga.1 University of California-Santa Barbara Professor, History (African History) email: sikainga.1@osu.edu 
 Michael Swartz, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/swartz.69 New York University Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Division of Comparative Studies and Melton Center for Jewish Studies (Rabbinic Studies; Magic and Ritual; Judaism and Late Antiquity) email: swartz.69@osu.edu 
 Adena Tanenbaum, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/tanenbaum.8 Harvard University Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Philosophical Themes in Hebrew Poetry from Spain; Medieval Jewish Intellectual History) email: tanenbaum.8@osu.edu 
 Inés Valdez, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Associate Professor and Program Director of the Latino/a Studies Program, Political Science and Latino/a Studies (Latina/o Political Thought; Political Theory of Migration; Cosmopolitanism) email: valdez.39@osu.edu 
 Burkhard Von Rabenau, Ph.D., https://knowlton.osu.edu/people/von-rabenau-0 University of California-Berkeley Professor Emeritus, Knowlton School of Architecture (Urban/Regional Economic Development and Growth; Problems of Urbanization) email: vonrabenau.1@osu.edu 
 Mohan Wali, Ph.D., https://senr.osu.edu/sites/senr/files/imce/files/CVs/Wali_CV2014.pdf The University of British Columbia Professor Emeritus, School of Environment and Natural Resources (Ecosystem Disturbance and Rehabilitation/Restoration; Sustainable Development, Energy Use and Policy) email: wali.1@osu.edu 
 Sabra Webber, Ph.D., https://nelc.osu.edu/people/webber.1 University of Texas-Austin Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Department of Comparative Studies https://comparativestudies.osu.edu/ (Folkloristics; Ethnography; Colonial/Contemporary North Africa; Disciplinary Dialogues and Histories) email: webber.1@osu.edu