Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

David Schloen

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, was awarded the Levi-Sala Book Prize for his work on Ashkelon in the seventh century B.C.E in Biblical Archaeology Review.

Andrea Seri

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Equinox Publishing, 2012) and coedited Imagined Beginnings: The Poetics and Politics of Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogony in the Ancient World with Christopher Faraone (special issue of the Journal for Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2012).

Cornell Fleischer

Kanuni Suleyman Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by the University of Chicago.

Matthew W. Stolper

John A. Wilson Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited L’archive des Fortifications de Persépolis: Etat des questions et perspectives de recherché (Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2008) with Pierre Briant and Wouter Henkelman.

Fred M. Donner

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, published Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).

Na’ama Rokem

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to support her spring 2010 conference “German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation” and was appointed a fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Orit Bashkin

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was appointed a Teagle Fellow for the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.

Robert Ritner

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period (Writings from the Ancient World No. 21) (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Dennis G. Pardee

Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published A Manual of Ugaritic (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2009) and received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the University of Chicago.

Farouk Mustafa

(pen name Farouk Abdel Wahab), Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Love in Exile, a translation of a novel by Bahaa Taher (London: Arabia Books, 2008); The Lodging House, a translation of a novel by Khairy Shalaby (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008); and The Zafarani Files, a translation of a novel by Gamal al-Ghitani (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008).

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