CMENAS Office
Kent Schull
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- History of the Ottoman Empire
- Modern Middle East history
- Palestine-Israel
- Turkey
- Criminal justice in the Middle East
- Missiology
- Forced migration
- Middle East and North African diaspora communities
Research Interests
- cultural resource management and heritage
- historical and contemporary archaeology
Affiliated Faculty
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- Journalism
- World literature
- Postcolonial novel
- Persian poetry
Research Interests
- Greek and Roman History
- Ancient Mediterranean
- Late Antiquity
Research Interests
- Zionism
- Israeli History
- Modern Jewish Thought
Ahmad Ayyad
Assistant Professor of Translation Studies
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Translation in conflict and war zones
- Political discourse analysis
- Translation and media
- Subtitling and politics
- Palestinian literature in translation
Research Interests
- Biogeography
- Plant Ecology
- Environmental History
- Energy and Society
- Weed Ecology and Evolution
- Ethic Cultural Trajectories
- Agricultural Origins
Research Interests
- Arabic Culture and Language
- North African Studies
- Popular Culture
- Islamic Studies
- Medieval Western Mediterranean Studies
Abagail Breidenstein
abreiden@binghamton.edu
Tina Chronopoulos
Associate Professor
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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
William Culverhouse
Associate Professor of Music; Director of Choral Activities; Director of Graduate Studies
Music
Dina Danon
ddanon@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Sephardi Jewry
- Modern Jewish History
Research Interests
- Ancient DNA
- Forensic genetics
- Bioarchaeology
- Molecular anthropology
Research Interests
- Modern Jewish Thought
- American Philosophical and Religious Thought
- Continental Philosophy of Religion
Omid Ghaemmaghami
omid@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- History and literature of the Bábà and Bahá’à religions
- Islamic intellectual history
- The Quran and its interpretation
- Arabic grammar
Research Interests
- Yiddish Language
- History
- Holocaust
Research Interests
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization
- Comparative Political Economy
Research Interests
- Jewish Economic and Cultural History
- Christian-Jewish Relations
Research Interests
- The social and religious history of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
- "Fall" of the Roman Empire
- The relationship between history, law and literature
- Philosophy of history / Historical Theory
Research Interests
- Turkish Linguistics
- Theoretical Linguistics (morphosyntax)
Bryan Kirschen
Chair of Romance Languages; Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Contact Linguistics
- Language Variation
- Documentary Linguistics
- Language Ideologies
- Sephardic Studies
- Aljamiado Texts
Lior Libman
Associate Professor of Israel Studies/ Director of the Center for Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Modern Hebrew and Israeli Literature and Cultural Studies
- Socialist-Zionism
- The Kibbutz
- Critical Theory
- Cultural and Intellectual History
Research Interests
- African history
- Modern Zanzibar
- Islam on the Swahili coast
- History and memory
- History of slavery
Research Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Feminist Theory
Nahed Noureddine
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Shay Rabineau
rabineau@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Walking and waymarking in Israel
- Trailology
- The Dead Sea environmental crisis
- Political geography of the Middle East
Christopher Robbins
crobbins@binghamton.edu
Andrew Scholtz
Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director AMS
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
Tarek Shamma
tshamma@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Translation and Culture
- Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies
- Cultural Studies
- The Arabian Nights
- The Bible in Islamic Cultures
Michel Shamoon Pour
Molecular and Biomedical Anthropology, Research Associate Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program
Research Interests
- Paleogenomics and population genetics of the Middle East
- Identity in the genomic era
- Tick-borne diseases
- Research education
Research Interests
- Early modern Ottoman history
- Environmental history
- History of science and technology
John H. Starks, Jr., Jr.
jstarks@binghamton.eduResearch 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
Research Interests
- Medieval art and architecture
- Medieval Mediterranean
- Cultural and artistic exchange
- Materials, media and materiality
- Ecological art history
Mary Youssef
Associate Professor/Undergraduate Director - Middle East Studies
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