Council on Middle East Studies

Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse, Ste 232, 432.5596

Chair
Abbas Amanat (History)

Professors
Abbas Amanat (History), Harold Attridge (Religious Studies), Ivo Banac (History), Gerhard Böwering (Religious Studies), Adela Yarbro Collins (Divinity), John J. Collins (Divinity), Benjamin Foster (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Steven Fraade (Religious Studies), Beatrice Gruendler (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Dimitri Gutas (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Frank Hole (Anthropology), Stanley Insler (Linguistics), Bentley Layton (Religious Studies), Ivan Marcus (History), Ashgar Rastegar (Medical School), W. Michael Reisman (Law), Lamin Sanneh (History), Harvey Weiss (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Robert Wilson (Religious Studies)

Associate Professor
Maria Georgopoulou (History of Art)

Assistant Professors
John Darnell (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Frank Griffel (Religious
Studies), Pauline Jones Luong (Political Science), Kaveh Khoshnood (Epidemiology & Public Health), Ellen Lust-Okar (Political Science), Leila Parsons (History)

Lecturer
Adel Allouche (History, Religious Studies)

Senior Lectors
Ayala Dvoretzky, Bassam Frangieh, Fereshteh Amanat-Kowssar

Lector
Neta Stahl

Librarians
Simon Samoeil (Sterling Memorial Library), Ulla Kasten (Babylonian Collection), Susan Matheson (Yale University Art Gallery Ancient Arts)

Students with an interest in the Middle East should apply to one of the University’s degree-granting departments, like Anthropology, History, Linguistics, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Political Science, or Religious Studies. The Council on Middle East Studies is part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. It has been organized to provide guidance to graduate students who desire to use the resources of the departments of the University that offer Middle East-related courses. The council brings together faculty and students sharing an interest in the Middle East by sponsoring conferences, discussions, films, and a lecture series by scholars from Yale as well as visiting scholars. It provides information concerning grants, fellowships, research programs, and foreign study opportunities. It also administers research projects in a variety of Middle East-related areas.

In addition to the resources of the individual departments, Yale’s library system has much to offer the student interested in Middle East Studies. Of particular note are the collections of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, as well as large holdings on the medieval and modern Middle East.

Inquiries about Middle East Studies should be directed to the Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, PO Box 208206, New Haven CT 06520-8206.

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