Maher Bahloul
Arabic Lecturer
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Arabic translation and digital challenges
- Arabic language and linguistics
- Arabic pidgin and language development
- Language learning and performative pedagogy
- Learning through the arts
Hilary Becker
Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director AMS
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Roman Economy and Materiality
- Pigments
- Etruscan Archaeology
- Latin and Etruscan epigraphy
Jeffrey A. Becker
Lecturer
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Mediterranean archaeology
- Italo-Roman architecture and urbanism
- Ancient geography
Tina Chronopoulos
Associate Professor/Chair
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Greek and Latin Hagiography
- 11th- and 12th-cent. Medieval Latin literature
- Reception of Classical Latin Literature in the medieval period
Carina de Klerk
Lecturer
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Archaic and Classical Greek poetry
- Theatre and performance
- Reception studies
- Language pedagogy
Omid Ghaemmaghami
Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director - Middle East Studies
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Islamic intellectual history
- The Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths
- Shīʿī Islam
- The Quran and its interpretation
- Arabic grammar
Gregory Key
Turkish Lecturer
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Turkish Linguistics
- Theoretical Linguistics (morphosyntax)
Andrew Scholtz
Associate Professor
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- The Passions 一 Especially Desire and Envy 一 in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- The Social Psychology of Greek Rhetoric
- Intersections of Ancient Greek & Roman Sexuality, Ideology, Politics and Literature
- Literary Theory
John H. Starks, Jr.
Collegiate Professor of Newing; Associate Professor
Residential Life; Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- Greek and Roman Comedy (theater history, performance, gender)
- Non-"Western" Ethnicity around the Ancient Mediterranean, esp. Africa and the Levant
- Hellenistic and Roman Social History
- Greek and Latin Epigraphy
- Roman Historiography (including Greek historians of Rome) and Classical Biography
Mary Youssef
TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Research Interests
- The Contemporary Egyptian Novel
- Modern Arabic Literature
- Arab Diasporic Literature
- African Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- Migration Studies
- Race Studies
- Gender Studies
