Graduate studies in NELC are conducted under the auspices of the Graduate Group in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In the Graduate Group faculty, the Standing Faculty of NELC is augmented by archeologists, historians, art historians, and specialists on religions of Near Eastern origin who share its focus on the primary sources of the Near East. Many emeritus faculty also continue to be active in working with students in the MA and PhD programs.
NELC faculty also hold close connections with Penn Museum (which draws several of its curators from the faculty of NELC), the Middle East Center, the Center for Ancient Studies, the program in Ancient History, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and the program in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, among other programs and institutions.
Timothy Hogue
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite History and Culture
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Jennifer Houser Wegner
Curator, Egyptian Section, Penn Museum Adjunct Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (Egyptology)
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
Modern Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, and Iran
Harun Küçük
Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Joseph E. Lowry
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Medieval Islam, Islamic Law
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Holly Pittman
Bok Family Professor in the Humanities
Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Lauren Ristvet
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Near Eastern Archaeology
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Fatemeh Shams
Associate Professor of Persian Literature
Persian Literature
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Heather J. Sharkey
Department Chair Professor of Modern Middle Eastern and North African History
Modern Islamic History, Thought & Culture
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David P. Silverman
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. Professor of Egyptology Curator, Egyptian Section, University Museum
Egyptology
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