MEAMS Faculty

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Maher Bahloul

Arabic Lecturer

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
LT 504

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
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Hilary Becker

Associate Professor

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
LT 503

Research Interests

  • Roman Economy and Materiality
  • Pigments
  • Etruscan Archaeology
  • Latin and Etruscan epigraphy
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Tina Chronopoulos

Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director - AMS

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
LT 515

Research Interests

  • Greek and Latin Hagiography
  • 11th- and 12th-cent. Medieval Latin literature
  • Reception of Classical Latin Literature in the medieval period
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Carina de Klerk

Lecturer

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
LT 517

Research Interests

  • Archaic and Classical Greek poetry
  • Theatre and performance
  • Reception studies
  • Language pedagogy
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Omid Ghaemmaghami

Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director - Middle East Studies

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
LT 512

Research Interests

  • Islamic intellectual history
  • The Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths
  • Shīʿī Islam
  • The Quran and its interpretation
  • Arabic grammar
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Andrew Scholtz

Associate Professor/Chair

Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
LT 509

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
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John H. Starks, Jr.

Collegiate Professor of Newing; Associate Professor

Residential Life; Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
C4 119A

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
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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
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