Visiting Faculty and Researchers

Anahit Khosroeva

Visiting Scholar in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Appointment Dates: September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026
Anahit Khosroeva is a genocide scholar born in Armenia. Her research interests include comparative genocide studies, human rights, and international law. Dr. Khosroeva is the author of more than a dozen research books and monographs, as well as numerous...
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Sofia Melikyan

Visiting Scholar in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Appointment dates: July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027
Sofia Melikyan (née Moiseeva) is a specialist in Christian Arabic literature in the Middle Ages. Her PhD dissertation Arabic Melkite Hagiography of the 9 th–11 th Centuries: Its Genre and Style Characteristics (2012, Moscow State University) was published...
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Romy Neumark

Visiting Lecturer in Modern Hebrew
As an Israeli public broadcaster, she worked as a senior anchor at KAN before arriving at Harvard as a Nieman fellow (2023). Neumark created and hosted "Night News " on television and a weekly radio interview show at KAN and previously reported on in...
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Hanxu Qi

Fellow in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Appointment Dates: October 25, 2025 - August 31, 2026
I am currently pursuing a PhD in Assyriology in China. My current research project, titled "War Imagery, Rituals, and the Construction of Kingship in the Neo-Assyrian Empire," aims to examine the unique role of war rituals in shaping royal authority...
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Eve Sada

Postdoctoral Fellow in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Appointment dates: June 13, 2026 - June 12, 2027
Eve Georges Sada is a choral conductor and scholar whose work centers on the musical and cultural traditions of Assyrian communities, combining archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, and performance practice to document sacred and secular traditions...
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Justin Stearns

Visiting Scholar in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Appointment Dates: 9/1/2025 - 8/31/2026
Justin Stearns is Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests focus on the intersection of law, science, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East. His first book was a comparative intellectual...
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