Penn State Penn State: College of the Liberal Arts

Middle Eastern Studies

People

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People

Chair

Janina Safran
Associate Professor of History

Staff

Rachel Storey
Community Outreach and Media Engagement
Pronouns: she/her
Ben Whitesell
Academic Advisor

Faculty

Reham Aly
Associate Teaching Professor of Arabic
David Giguette Atwill
Professor of History
Gabeba Baderoon
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Assistant Professor of History
Jonathan Brockopp
Professor of History and Religious Studies
Michelle Campos
Associate Professor in Jewish Studies and History
Madhuri Desai
Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies
Ruth Edelstein
Lecturer in Hebrew
Lecturer of Arabic
Nergis Ertürk
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Eric Fleisch
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
Pronouns: he/him
Burleigh Hendrickson
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Faisal Husain
Assistant Professor of History
Linda Istanbulli
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Ann Killebrew
Associate Professor, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Anthropology
Alex Lubin
Professor of African American Studies
Maha Marouan
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies
Jake Nabel
Assistant Professor in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Laura Robson
Professor of History
Aaron Rubin
Professor of Jewish Studies, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Linguistics
Gonzalo Rubio
Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Lior Sternfeld
Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies
Daniel Tavana
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Christopher Tounsel
Assistant Professor of History and African Studies
Yael Warshel
Assistant Professor of Communications
Anna Ziajka Stanton
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Graduate Students

Hanan Al-Alawi
Pronouns: she/her
Olivia Crawford
Pronouns: she/her
Duncan Lien
Pronouns: he/him
Dina Mahmoud
Pronouns: she/her