The Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program is designed for students with a master’s degree who wish to pursue research with a comparative perspective in the following fields: Near Eastern languages and literature (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian [or Dari or Tajik]); Turkish and Central Asian Turkic languages; Near Eastern linguistics; Islamic topics, namely Islamic law, history, institutions, theology and mysticism; comparative religion (Judaism, Christianity and Islam); or interdisciplinary investigations of modern topics using the social sciences.
Degree offered
Doctor of Philosophy (Near and Middle Eastern Studies)
Program director/interdisciplinary group chair
- Cabeiri deBergh Robinson, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Interdisciplinary faculty group membership
The following are the core/voting graduate faculty members of the interdisciplinary group. For a complete list of faculty active in the program, see the program website.
- Denya Al-Saleh, Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
- Mika Ahuvia, Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
- Arbella Bet-Shlimon, Associate Professor, Department of History
- Canan Bolel, Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Elena Campbell, Associate Professor, Department of History
- Daniel Chirot, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies & Department of Sociology
- Karam Dana, Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell
- Terri DeYoung, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Purnima Dhavan, Associate Professor, Department of History
- Jennifer Dubrow, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature
- Hussein Elkhafaifi, Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Aria Fani, Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Kathie Friedman, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
- Liora Halperin, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies and Department of History
- Resat Kasaba, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
- Selim S. Kuru, Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Clark B. Lombardi, Professor, School of Law
- James Long, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
- Brian McLaren, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture
- Victor Menaldo, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
- Devin E. Naar, Associate Professor, Department of History & Jackson School of International Studies
- Scott Noegel, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Arzoo Osanloo, Associate Professor, Law, Societies and Justice
- Noam Pianko, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
- Scott Radnitz, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
- Cabeiri deBergh Robinson, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
- Haideh Salehi-Esfahani, Principal Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Economics
- Stephanie Selover, Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Naomi Sokoloff, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Joel Walker, Associate Professor, Department of History
- Michael Williams, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
- Hamza Zafer, Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures