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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

Susham Bedi
sb12@columbia.edu

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