Professors

Robert B. Alter
(The Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature), Ph.D. Harvard University. Hebrew literature, modern and biblical

Daniel Boyarin
(The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture), Ph.D. Jewish Theological Seminary. Cultural studies in Talmud and Midrash; gender and sexuality; hermeneutics; ancient Judaism and Christianity

Ronald S. Hendel
(The Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies), Ph.D. Harvard University. Ancient Hebrew language, literature, religion, and culture

Chana Kronfeld
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Hebrew, Yiddish, poetics, literary historiography

Margaret Larkin
Ph.D. Columbia University. Arabic literature

Francesca Rochberg
(The Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies), Ph.D. University of Chicago. Ancient Mesopotamia, science and religion, Akkadian

Martin Schwartz
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Old/Middle Iranian, Indo-European, Zoroastrianism, poetics and Semitics

Muhammad Siddiq
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Comparative literature, Arabic and Hebrew literature

Hamid Algar
(Emeritus), Ph.D.

Guitty Azarpay
(Emerita), Ph.D.

Ariel A. Bloch
(Emeritus), Ph.D.

Wolfgang J. Heimpel
(Emeritus), Ph.D.

Anne D. Kilmer
(Emerita), Ph.D.

James T. Monroe
(Emeritus), Ph.D.

David B. Stronach
(Emeritus), M.A.

Associate Professors

Shahwali Ahmadi
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles. Persian literature and literary history

Marian Feldman
Ph.D. Harvard University. Ancient Near Eastern art, Eastern Mediterranean interconnections, Bronze Age Aegean art and archaelogy

Carol A. Redmount
Ph.D. University of Chicago. Egyptian archaeology and culture, Syro-Palestinian and biblical archaeology

Niek Veldhuis
Ph.D. University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Ancient Mesopotamian languages and cultures

Assistant Professors

Benjamin Porter
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Near Eastern archaeology

Lecturers

Rutie Adler
M.A. University of California, Berkeley; M.A., San Francisco State University. Linguistics, Hebrew linguistics, English as a second language, Hebrew as a second language

Ayla Algar
M.A. University of California, Berkeley. Turkish language and literature, language pedgogy

Hatem Bazian
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Arabic language, Islamic law

Chava Boyarin
M.A. Hebrew University; M.A. City University of New York; Diploma in Applied Linguistics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Modern and biblical Hebrew

John L. Hayes
Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles. Semitic linguistics, Arabic, Akkadian, and Sumerian

David Larkin
B.A. University of California, Berkeley. Egyptian, Coptic

Sanjyot Mehendale
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Near Eastern archaeology, central Asia

Laurie Pearce
Ph.D. Yale University. Akkadian, Assyriology, Cuneiform

Jaleh Pirnazar
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Modern Iranian history, Persian language and literature, Iranian cinema

Sonia S'hiri
(Coordinator of the Arabic Language Program), Ph.D. University of Edinburgh. Arabic language and literature