
Core Faculty





Rebecca Johnson
Associate Professor of English and the Humanities & Director of the Middle East and North African Studies Program


Wendy Pearlman
Interim Director and DUS, MENA; Crown Professor of Middle East Studies, Department of Political Science

Carl Petry
Professor Emeritus of History and Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Chair in Middle East Studies

Michael Rakowitz
Alice Welsh Skilling Professor of Art, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art, Theory, Practice


Jessica Winegar
Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities


İpek Yosmaoğlu
Associate Professor of History & Director of the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program