Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students
For Spring 2009 Office hours, please see the new
MESAAS Faculty Directory.
Staff |
Full-Time Faculty |
Visiting Faculty |
Emeritus Faculty |
Grad Students
Department Chair
Sudipta Kaviraj
Professor, South Asian Politics
412 Knox Hall
212-854-0714
sk2828@columbia.edu
Director of Graduate Studies
Timothy Mitchell
Professor, Arab Studies
407 Knox Hall
212-854-5252
tm2421@columbia.edu
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Nanor Kebranian
Assistant Professor, Armenian Studies
409 Knox Hall
212-851-4002
nk2334@columbia.edu
Staff
Jessica Rechtschaffer
Academic Department Administrator
401A Knox Hall
212-854-6512
jr650@columbia.edu
Jill Kitchen
Administrative Assistant
401 Knox Hall
212-854-2560
jk2989@columbia.edu
Leah Smith
Administrative Assistant
401 Knox Hall
212-854-2556
ls2548@columbia.edu
Full-Time Faculty
Ouijdane Absi
Lecturer, Arabic Language
415 Knox Hall
212-854-2057
oa2171@columbia.edu
May Ahmar
Lecturer, Arabic Language
314 Knox Hall
212-854-9810
ma2550@columbia.edu
Muhsin Al-Musawi
Professor, Arabic Studies
307 Knox Hall
212-854-4732
ma2188@columbia.edu
Gil Anidjar
Associate Professor, Religion & MEALAC
80 Claremont Avenue, Room 207, MC 9610
212-851-4130
ga152@columbia.edu
Ghada Badawi
Lecturer, Arabic Language
305 Knox Hall
212-854-9469
gb2248@columbia.edu
Tarik Belhoussein
Lecturer, Arabic Language
314 Knox Hall
212-851-9795
tb2315@columbia.edu
Taoufik Ben-Amor
Gordon Gray Jr Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies
Arabic Language Program Coordinator
Columbia Arabic Summer Program Director
308 Knox Hall
212-854-2895
tb46@columbia.edu
Nehama R. Bersohn
Lecturer, Hebrew Language
410 Knox Hall
212-854-6668
nrb1@columbia.edu
Rym Bettaieb
Lecturer, Arabic Language
415 Knox Hall
212-851-0487
rb2555@columbia.edu
Allison Busch
Assistant Professor, Hindi and Indian Literature
419 Knox Hall
212-854-9626
ab2544@columbia.edu
Partha Chatterjee
Professor, Anthropology & MEALAC
462 Schermerhorn Ext
pc281@columbia.edu
Jane Clayton
Associate, African languages
414 Knox Hall
212-854-2556
jnc2103@columbia.edu
Uri Cohen
Assistant Professor, Hebrew Literature
317 Knox Hall
212-854-4761
uc2107@columbia.edu
Hamid Dabashi
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature
416 Knox Hall
212-854-7524
hd14@columbia.edu
Ghazzal Dabiri
Lecturer, Persian Language
313 Knox Hall
212-854-6664
gd2287@columbia.edu
Mamadou Diouf
Leitner Family Professor of African Studies
316 Knox Hall
212-854-4083
md2573@columbia.edu
Etem Erol
Lecturer, Turkish Language
313 Knox Hall
212-854-0473
ee2105@columbia.edu
Reem Faraj
Lecturer, Arabic Language
415 Knox Hall
212-854-9917
rf2273@columbia.edu
Wael Hallaq
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
515 Knox Hall
212-851-9729
wh2223@columbia.edu
John Mtembezi Inniss
Lecturer, Swahili language
414 Knox Hall
212-854-9227
mji2108@columbia.edu
Charry Karamanoukian
Lecturer, Armenian language
311 Knox Hall
212-851-7083
ck2444@columbia.edu
Sudipta Kaviraj
Professor, South Asian Politics
Department Chair
412 Knox Hall
212-854-0714
sk2828@columbia.edu
Nanor Kebranian
Assistant Professor, Armenian Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
409 Knox Hall
212-851-4002
nk2334@columbia.edu
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature, History & MEALAC
401 Fayerweather
212-854-2584
rik2101@columbia.edu
Suman Mallipattana
Lecturer, Hindi-Urdu Language
309 Knox Hall
212-851-5682
svm2108@columbia.edu
Mahmood Mamdani
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government
Anthropology, International Affairs, and MEALAC
417 Knox Hall
212-854-8777
mm1124@columbia.edu
Joseph Massad
Associate Professor, Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History
516 Knox Hall
212-854-4722
jam25@columbia.edu
Brinkley M. Messick
Professor, Anthropology & MEALAC
863 Schermerhorn Ext
212-854-4552
bmm23@columbia.edu
Dan Miron
Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew Literature
318 Knox Hall
212-854-4730
dm20@columbia.edu
Timothy Mitchell
Professor, Arab Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
407 Knox Hall
212-854-5252
tm2421@columbia.edu
Youssef Nouhi
Lecturer, Arabic Language
305 Knox Hall
212-854-1184
yn2162@columbia.edu
Sheldon Pollock
The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
418 Knox Hall
sp2356@columbia.edu
Frances Pritchett
Professor, Modern Indic Languages
315 Knox Hall
212-854-4370
fp7@columbia.edu
Noha Radwan
Assistant Professor, Arabic Literature
517 Knox Hall
212-854-5137
nr2147@columbia.edu
Dalpat Rajpurohit
Lecturer, Hindi-Urdu Language
309 Knox Hall
212-854-2893
dr2474@columbia.edu
Rakesh Ranjan
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator Hindi-Urdu Language
411 Knox Hall
212-851-4107
rr2574@columbia.edu
Ruth Raphaeli-Slivko
Senior Lecturer, Hebrew Language
413 Knox Hall
212-854-6519
rr9@columbia.edu
George Saliba
Professor, History of Islamic Science
312 Knox Hall
212-854-4166
gas1@columbia
Nader Sohrabi
Assistant Professor, Ottoman History
513 Knox Hall
212-854-4766
ns605@columbia.edu
D. Samuel Sudanandha
Lecturer, Tamil Language
309 Knox Hall
212-854-4702
dss2121@columbia.edu
Mariame Sy
Lecturer, African Languages
310 Knox Hall
212-851-2439
sms2168@columbia.edu
Visiting Faculty
Tsipi Rubin
Visting Lecturer, Hebrew Language
410 Knox Hall
Somdev Vasudeva
Assistant Professor, Sanskrit
311 Knox Hall
212-854-1304
sv2246@columbia.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Edward Allworth
Professor Emeritus Turco-Soviet Studies
pjc1@columbia.edu
Theodore Riccardi, Jr.
Indian and Himalayan Culture
tr9@columbia.edu
Ehsan Yarshater
Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies
Director, Center for Iranian Studies
ey4@columbia.edu
Graduate Students
For current and updated listings, please consult the MESAAS Graduate Student Directory.
Insaf Ali
ima2104@columbia.edu
Leyla Amzi
la2142@columbia.edu
Safoora Arbab
sa2235@columbia.edu
Ari Ariel
aa2093@columbia.edu
Ari Babinsky
ab3109@columbia.edu
Golbarg Bashi
gb2192@columbia.edu
Soraya Batmanghelichi
ksb2010@columbia.edu
Neda Bolourchi
nb2294@columbia.edu
Raphael Botiveau
rpb2109@columbia.edu
Thomas Casey
thc2114@columbia.edu
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
asc2112@columbia.edu
Owen Cornwall
otc2101@columbia.edu
Corbett Costello
cc2771@columbia.edu
Victor Bartholomew D'Avella
vbd2101@columbia.edu
Abdullah Daouk
aad28@columbia.edu
Arthur Dudney
add2115@columbia.edu
Abdulwahid Duso
ad2777@columbia.edu
Valentine Boatwright Edgar
vbe1@columbia.edu
Abdi Ega
ale2108@columbia.edu
Elazar Elhanan
ee2202@columbia.edu
Elaine Fisher
emf2127@columbia.edu
Michael Golan
mzg2104@columbia.edu
Rebecca Gould
rrs40@columbia.edu
Rawan Hadid
rh2487@columbia.edu
Elizabeth Holt
emh2105@columbia.edu
Mouannes Hojairi
mmh2019@columbia.edu
Farbod Honarpisheh
fh2180@columbia.edu
Elizabeth Johnston
eej2101@columbia.edu
Namrata Kanchan
nk2280@columbia.edu
Omar Khalifah
ok2153@columbia.edu
Mohamad Khan
mk2580@columbia.edu
Nadia Khan
nk2277@columbia.edu
Yasmine Khayyat
ymk2103@columbia.edu
Chad Kia
ck50@columbia.edu
Yuval Kremnitzer
yk2412@columbia.edu
Joel Lee
jgl2119@columbia.edu
Cheryl Leung
cel2129@columbia.edu
Yitzhak Lewis
yml2108@columbia.edu
Katherine McCulloch
kpm2120@columbia.edu
Ashley McKannon
aem2189@columbia.edu
Wesley Michel
whm2104@columbia.edu
Alaa Milbes
ajm2183@columbia.edu
Haroon Moghul
hsm2115@columbia.edu
Leila Mouri Sardar Abady
lm2614@columbia.edu
Tsolin Nalbantian
tn2111@columbia.edu
Kaveh Farzad Niazi
kfn2101@columbia.edu
Golnar Nikpour
gn67@columbia.edu
Cenk Palaz
cc2408@columbia.edu
Sara Pekow
sap2139@columbia.edu
Nabila Pirani
np2347@columbia.edu
Casey Primel
ctp2108@columbia.edu
Dina Ramadan
dar2103@columbia.edu
Yasmine Ramadan
yar2104@columbia.edu
Hamid Rezai
hr2106@columbia.edu
Sam Rubin
ser2156@columbia.edu
Zahra Sabri
zs2164@columbia.edu
Miho Sato
ms3798@columbia.edu
Linda Sayed
ls2168@columbia.edu
Vanessa Schiavi
vs2307@columbia.edu
Suzanne Schneider Reich
sls2001@columbia.edu
Abeer Shaheen
as3110@columbia.edu
Nathanael Shelley
nps2104@columbia.edu
Zoe Slatoff
zps1@columbia.edu
Peter Sobieraj
pcs2129@columbia.edu
Kamal Soleimani
ks2473@columbia.edu
Aditi Surie
ads2165@columbia.edu
Allia Tamzali
at2384@columbia.edu
Audrey Truschke
aat2120@columbia.edu
Kadir Ustun
ku2005@columbia.edu
Nader Uthman
nku2001@columbia.edu
Shreya Vora
snv2103@columbia.edu
Tyler Williams
tw2231@columbia.edu
Veli N. Yashin
vny1@columbia.edu
Maheen Zaman
maz2105@columbia.edu