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Faculty & Staff

MESC Staff

NAME POSITION
Peter Bechtold Director, Middle East Studies Center/Prof.Political Science
Jean Campbell Associate Director, Middle East Studies Center
Lydia Beyoud Office Coordinator
Randa Benaziz Student Worker
Rebecca Hodgin Student Worker
Basak Bugdaypinar Community Liaison
Shelly Maslen Intern

Middle East Associated Faculty

NAME POSITION/DEPARTMENT MIDDLE EAST FOCUS
Diana Abu-Jaber Associate Professor, English Jordan, Palestine, Literature
Pelin Basci Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature Turkish Language, Turkey, Women in the Middle East
Peter Bechtold Director, Middle East Studies Center/Prof. Political Science Sudan, Middle East Region, U.S. Foreign Policy
Lindsay Benstead Associate Professor, Political Science North Africa, Morocco, Algeria, political institutions, public opinion
Kimberley Brown Professor, Linguistics Iran, Persian Language
Jean Campbell Associate Director, Middle East Studies Center Anthropology, Education, Arab World, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Karen Carr Associate Professor, History History, Archaeology, Tunisia
Grant Farr Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Iran, Afghanistan
James Grehan Assistant Professor, History Ottoman History, Syria, Lebanon
Kris Kern Preservation/Catalog Librarian, Library Arabic language materials
Tugrul Keskin Assistant Professor, International and Middle Eastern Studies Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies, Islamic Movements and Kurdish/Turkish Nationalism
Masoud Kheirabadi Adjunct Assistant Professor International Studies
Jon Mandaville Professor, Dean Emeritus, History, Middle East Studies Center Ottoman History, History of Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, Syria, Yemen
Anne McClanan Associate Professor, Art Byzantine Art and Architecture
Laura Robson Assistant Professor, History Modern Middle East History, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria
Anousha Sedighi Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures Persian language, Persian literature, Iranian culture
Sarah Sterling Adjunct Asst. Professor, Anthropology Ancient Egypt
Danelle Stevens Associate Professor, Curric/Instruction Turkey, education
Barbara Tint Associate Professor/Assistant Director, Conflict Resolution Program Palestinian/Israeli issues, conflict resolution
Nohad Toulan Dean Emeritus, College of Urban and Public Affairs Egypt, urban planning in Arab World
Steven Wadley Associate Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures Muslim minorities in China
Keith Walters Professor, Applied Linguistics North African languages and culture
Michael Weingrad Director, Judaic Studies Program Israel, Hebrew language and literature
Birol Yesilada Professor, Political Science/Intl Studies, Chair, Contemporary Turkish Studies Turkey, Cyprus, political economy, conflict resolution

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