People - Faculty

Name

Field of Interest

Khalid Ahmed

Assistant Teaching Professor

khalid4@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursday 12:30-2:00

Denny 245

Arabic, Language, Literature

Canan Bolel

Assistant Professor

cananbo@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment only

Denny 237

History, Jewish Studies, Ladino, Literature, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern Studies, Ottoman Studies, Sephardic Studies, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Terri L. DeYoung

Professor

tdeyoung@uw.edu / (206) 543-6184

Office Hours: By appointment

Denny 246

Arabic, Culture, Egypt, Film/Cinema, Iraq, Islamic Studies, Language, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Philosophy, Rhetoric and Composition

Hussein Elkhafaifi

Associate Professor

hme3@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Denny M 220C

Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Arabic Language and Culture, Heritage Language Learning, Language Identity, Language Pedagogy and Curriculum Development, Linguistics

Aria Fani

Associate Professor
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies
Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program

ariafani@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment only

Comparative Literature, Iranian Studies, Language Pedagogy, Modern Persian Literature, Nationalism, Persian, Translation Studies

Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz

Associate Teaching Professor

hadarkh@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment.

Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Language, Law and Political Thought, Literature, Philosophy, Religion

Selim Sırrı Kuru

Associate Professor
Director of Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
Graduate Program Coordinator

selims@uw.edu

Office Hours: TTh 11 AM-12 PM

Denny 220C

History, Islamic Studies, Literature, Medieval, Ottoman Turkish, Poetry and Poetics, Sexuality, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation, Turkish

Talant Mawkanuli

Teaching Professor
Director of Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Program

tmawkan@uw.edu

Office Hours: T 11:00-12:30 or by appointment

Denny 241

Central Eurasian, Endangered Languages, Islamic Studies, Language Documentation and Description, Lexicography, Linguistics, Minoritized Languages, Race and Ethnicity, Sociocultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Turkic

Kathryn Medill

Assistant Teaching Professor

kmed1@uw.edu

Office Hours: Winter 2026: Mon 2:00-3:00 PM, Wed 12:35-1:30 (walk in!)

DEN M-220B

Ancient, Assyriology, Bible Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Comparative Literature, History, Linguistics, Material Culture, Near Eastern Studies, Sociology

Elham Monfaredi

Assistant Teaching Professor

elhammon@uw.edu / 206-685-3743

Office Hours: By appointment

DEN 220A

Classroom Discourse, Intercultural Pragmatics, Language Pedagogy, Language Use in Social Interaction, Linguistics, Persian

Scott Noegel

Professor
Director of Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Program

snoegel@uw.edu

Antiquity, Aramaic, Art History, Assyrian, Babylonian, Biblical Hebrew, Classics, Egyptology, History, Literature, Medieval, Music, Religion, Sumerian, Ugaritic

Stephanie Selover

Chair
Associate Professor

sselover@uw.edu / 206.543.7145

Office Hours: By Appointment

Denny 220F

Anatolia, Ancient, Archaeology, Bible Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Near Eastern Studies, Violence and Trauma, War and Terror

Naomi B. Sokoloff

Professor
Director of Modern Hebrew and Israel Studies Program

naosok@uw.edu

Office Hours: W 11:00-12:30

Denny 220B

Comparative Literature, Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Literary Criticism

Mehari Worku

Assistant Teaching Professor

mworku3@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursday 2:00-5:00 pm

DEN 233

Biblical Hebrew

Melike Yucel-Koc

Associate Teaching Professor

yucelm@uw.edu / (206) 685-0324

Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 11:30-12:30 p.m.

Denny M 220F

Bilingualism, Comparative Linguistics, Education, Language Awareness, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Near Eastern Studies, Oral History, Pedagogy, Second Language Reading, Turkish

Emeriti Faculty

Nicholas Heer

Professor Emeritus

heer@uw.edu

Arabic, Islamic Studies, Language, Literature, Philosophy

Gary Martin

Teaching Professor Emeritus

garmar@uw.edu

Biblical Hebrew, Middle Eastern Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Textual Studies

Michael A. Williams

Professor

maw@uw.edu

Antiquity, Biblical Hebrew, Coptic Language, Early Christianity, Religion

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Ahuvia, Mika	Adjunct in MELC, Associate Professor, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies	mahuvia@uw.edu
Ben Ami, Shai	Acting Instructor	shaib@uw.edu
Bet-Shlimon, Arbella	Adjunct in MELC, Associate Professor, Department of History	shlimon@uw.edu
Chen, Annie T.	Adjunct in MELC, Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
Clauss, Jim	Adjunct in MELC, Professor, Department of Classics	jjc@uw.edu
Dhavan, Purnima	Adjunct in MELC, Associate Professor, Department of History	pdhavan@uw.edu
Kasaba, Resat	Adjunct in MELC, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies	kasaba@uw.edu
Ketchley, Sarah	Affiliate Instructor	ketchley@uw.edu
Lombardi, Clark	Adjunct in MELC, Professor, School of Law	lombardi@uw.edu
McCabe, Lillian	Lecturer	limccabe@uw.edu
Mosca, Matthew W	Adjunct in MELC, Associate Professor, Department of History, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies	mosca@uw.edu
Moujtahid, Amina	Lecturer	amoujt@uw.edu
Radnitz, Scott	Adjunct in MELC, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies	srad@uw.edu (206) 543-2467
Reid, Donald M.	Affiliate in MELC, Emeritus, Department of History	dreid@gsu.edu
Robinson, Cabeiri	Adjunct in MELC, Associate Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Samini, Naghmeh	Affiliate Assistant Professor	nsamini@uw.edu
Walker, Joel	Adjunct in MELC, Associate Professor, Department of History	jwalker@uw.edu

In Memoriam

People - In Memoriam
Name	Title
Andrews, Walter	Research Professor Emeritus
Bacharach, Jere	In Memoriam
Cirtautas, Ilse	Emeritus Professor
Ziadeh, Farhat J.	In Memoriam