Affiliated Faculty

Anthropology

H. Samy Alim, Assistant Professor
Sondra Hale, Professor
Nancy Levine, Professor, Anthropology
Susan Slyomovics, Professor, Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies

Architecture and Urban Design

Samuel Aroni, Director, Special Academic Cooperative Projects

Art History

Irene Bierman, Associate Professor
Susan Downey, Professor
Steven Nelson, Assistant Professor

History

Edward A. Alpers, Professor, History
S. Scott Bartchy, Senior Lecturer S.O.E.
Ra'anan Boustan, Assistant Professor of Early Judaism and Ancient Mediterranean Religions
James Gelvin, Professor
Richard Hovannisian, Professor Emeritus
Nikki Keddie, Professor Emerita
Ghislaine Lydon, Assistant Professor, History
Afaf Marsot, Professor Emerita
Michael Morony, Professor
David Myers, Professor
Gabriel Piterberg, Associate Professor
Claudia Rapp, Professor, MENAS Chair
Teofilo Ruiz, Professor

Comparative Literature

Nouri Gana, Assistant Professor
Gil Zehava Hochberg, Assistant Professor
Françoise Lionnet, Professor
Aamir Mufti, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

Economics

Sule Ozler, Associate Professor

English

Ali Behdad, Professor
Janet Hadda, Professor Emerita
Saree Makdisi, Professor

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Carol Bakhos, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies
Amin Banani, Professor Emeritus of Persian & History
Arnold Band, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew & Comparative Literature
Andras Bodrogligeti, Professor Emeritus of Turkic Languages
Ra'anan Boustan, Assistant Professor of Early Judaism and Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Giorgio Buccellati, Professor Emeritus of Assyriology, History & Archaeology
Aaron A. Burke, Assistant Professor of Archaeology of Ancient Israel & the Levant
Elizabeth Carter, Chair & Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
Michael D. Cooperson, Associate Professor of Arabic
S. Peter Cowe, Narekatsi Professor of Armenian Studies
Herbert A. Davidson, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew
Jacco Dieleman, Assistant Professor of Egyptology
Robert K. Englund, Professor of Assyriology & Sumerology
Nancy Ezer, Lecturer in Hebrew
Michael Fishbein, Lecturer in Arabic
Latifeh Hagigi, Lecturer in Persian
Lev Hakak, Professor of Hebrew
David G. Hirsch, Librarian & Assistant Adjunct Professor
Robert Hoyland, Professor of Arabic
Ralph Jaeckel, Lecturer Emeritus in Turkish
Anahid Keshishian, Lecturer in Armenian
Hagop Kouloujian, Lecturer in Armenian
Guliz Kuruoglu, Lecturer in Turkish
Nahid Pirnazar, Adjunct Lecturer in Iranian Studies
Ismail K. Poonawala, Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Yona Sabar, Professor of Hebrew
William Schniedewind, Professor of Biblical Studies & Northwest Semitics
M. Rahim Shayegan, Musa Sabi Assistant Professor of Iranian
Susan Slyomovics, Professor, Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Willeke Wendrich, Associate Professor of Egyptian Archaeology & History
Hossein Ziai, Professor of Iranian & Islamic Studies

Political Science

Leonard Binder, Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Michael L. Ross, Associate Professor of Political Science; Chair, Acting Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Steven L. Spiegel, Professor, Political Science and Director, Center for Middle East Development

Public Health

Osman Galal, Professor
Gail Harrison, Professor

Sociology

Andreas Wimmer, Professor

Women's Studies

Sondra Hale, Professor

World Arts and Cultures

Allen F. Roberts, Professor

Spotlight

Slyomovics Named Director of Near East Center
Anthropologist Susan Slyomovics takes the helm of CNES a year after her arrival at UCLA. Her current research focuses on human rights in the context of Morocco and Algeria's reparations commissions and the French colonial infrastructure in North Africa.