Ralph A. Austen Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966. Professor of African History, Committee on the General Studies in the Humanities, International Relations, Jewish Studies, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1967. African economic history; comparative slavery and slave trade; colonialism and imperialism; African literature; witchcraft.
Cornell Fleischer Ph.D., Princeton University, 1982. Kanunî Süleyman Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Islamic and Ottoman History, History of Culture, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1993. Medieval and early modern Islamic history; social and cultural history; comparative studies in early modern societies.
Walter Kaegi Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965. Professor of Byzantine History, the Ancient Mediterranean World, the Division of the Humanities, and the College; Voting Member of the Oriental Institute. Teaching at Chicago since 1965. Byzantine and late Roman political, social, military, and religious structure; historiography; European military history and strategy; Byzantino-Islamic history.
Bernard Wasserstein D.Phil.Oxford, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford, 2001. Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History. Teaching at Chicago since 2003. Jewish and Middle Eastern history, and the politics and diplomacy of twentieth-century Europe.
John Woods Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974. Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College; Director of the Middle East Center. Teaching at Chicago since 1970. State formation and economic history in the premodern Islamic Middle East and Central Asia.
Associated Faculty
Nadia Abu-El-Haj (Anthropology)
Kagan Arik (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Betul Basaran (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Orit Bashkin (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Yuval Ben-Bassat (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Philip Bohlman (Music)
Menahem Brinker (Jewish Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Richard L. Chambers (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Robert Dankoff (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Fred M. Donner (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Ariela Finkelstein (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Michael Fishbane (Jewish Studies)
Victor Friedman (Slavic Languages and Literature)
McGuire Gibson (Archeology)
Norman Golb (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Gideon A. Gottlieb (Law School)
Gene Gragg (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Choukri Heddouchi (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Janet Johnson (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Wadad Kadi (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Joel Kraemer (Jewish Studies)
Bruce Lincoln (Divinity School)
Saba Mahmood (Divinity School)
Marvin Mikesell (Geography)
Heshmat Moayyed (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Kathleen Morrison (Anthropology)
Farouk Mustafa (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
C. M. Naim (South Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Robert Nelson (Art History)
Hakan Özoglu (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Dennis Pardee (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
John Perry (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Maurice Pomerantz (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Montserrat Rabadan-Carrascosa (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Farkhondeh Sheyasteh (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Holly Shissler (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
Martin Stokes (Music)
Lisa Wedeen (Political Science)
Tony Wilkinson (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
K. Aslihan Yener (Archeology)
Marvin Zonis (Graduate School of Business)