Faculty

Jesse S. Arlen is Lecturer in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of many articles and book chapters relating to medieval religious literature and intellectual history, with particular attention to asceticism and mysticism. He is the...

Mazalit Haim is a scholar of modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture. Her research explores the politics of hope and despair in modern Jewish and Israeli literature, visual art, museums, and public culture. Drawing on affect theory, psychoanalysis...

Dr. Adi Mahalel teaches Yiddish Studies. He earned his PhD from Columbia University and is the author of The Radical Isaac: I. L. Peretz and the Rise of Jewish Socialism (SUNY Press) and the translation and scholarly introduction of Hanan Ayalti’s Boom...

Abdul Manan is a scholar of Islam, devotional literature, and material religion, specializing in Islamic discourses on poetry with a focus on the Persianate world. Urdu and Persian literature is at the heart of his teaching and research interests. At...

Jessica Marglin’s research examines the history of Jews in North Africa and the Mediterranean in the modern period, with a particular emphasis on law. She draws on sources in Arabic, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and multiple European languages. Her first book, A...

Research interests: Modern Middle Eastern History (Ottoman and Post-Ottoman);  Social and Cultural History; Historical Anthropology; Empire/Law

Adam Mestyan is a historian of the modern Middle East and the Ford Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern...

Vladimir Olivero teaches classes in Biblical Hebrew and other Semitic languages. After completing a BA and MA in Classics at the University of Milan, he earned an MSt in Classical Hebrew Studies and a DPhil (PhD) in Oriental Studies from the University of...

She has been an Arabic Lecturer at Alexandria University, Egypt, from 2016 to 2024. She also worked as a lecturer of Arabic in the summer program "ARANAS" at Al-Akhawayn University, Morocco. She has been a full certified tester for Oral Proficiency by the...

Anna Glenn is an Assyriologist specializing in the Sumerian language. Her work focuses on Sumerian literature, religion, and scribal culture of the early second millennium BCE. Starting from a strong philological basis, her research explores topics...