University of Toronto

 

GRADUATE FACULTY MEMBERS 2010-11

 

FULL MEMBERS

905-525-9140 x.23541
vaksan@mcmaster.ca

V.H. AKSAN, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Eighteenth century Ottoman history.
Department of History, McMaster University

P.A. BEAULIEU, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Assyriology, Mesopotamian history, Akkadian language
Room 409, 4 Bancroft Avenue

416-946-3244
harryfox@chass.utoronto.ca

* H. FOX, Ph.D. (Hebrew University)
Jewish literature and Judaism in late antiquity.
Room 313, 4 Bancroft Avenue

K.A. GRZYMSKI, Ph.D. (University of Calgary)
Archaeology of ancient Egypt and Sudan.
Royal Ontario Museum, room 604

*A. HARRAK, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Aramaic-Syriac languages and literatures; Syriac historical writings.
Room 314, 4 Bancroft Avenue

T.P. HARRISON, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Syro-Palestinian archaeology; ceramic analysis; Tell Madaba Project; Tell Tayinat Project
Room 418, 4 Bancroft Avenue

P.W.T. KINGSTON, D. PHIL. (Oxford University)
Modern Middle Eastern history and politics; international relations.
Munk Centre for International Studies
Room 211N, 1 Devonshire Place

***B.T. LAWSON, Ph.D. (McGill University 416-978-3080
todd.lawson@utoronto.ca
Link to website
Islamic religion; mystical Quranic exegesis
Room 327, 4 Bancroft Avenue

416-978-3182
ronald.leprohon@utoronto.ca
Brief curriculum vitaeR.J. LEPROHON, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Ancient Egyptian history and religion; relations with Nubia.
Room 303, 4 Bancroft Avenue

T. MEACHAM, Ph.D. (Hebrew University)
Early Jewish literature and religion and women's studies.
Room 202S, 4 Bancroft Avenue

S. METSO, Th.D. (University of Helsinki) 416-946-3243
s.metso@utoronto.ca
Brief curriculum vitae
Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Second Temple Judaism
Room 307, 4 Bancroft Avenue

H. NAJMAN, Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Second Temple history and literature; Dead Sea Scrolls; Hebrew Bible; Rabbinic literature; Judaism and Christianity in antiquity
Centre for Jewish Studies, 100 St.George St., 5th floor

J.A. REILLY, Ph.D. (Georgetown University)
Socioeconomic history of the Arab Middle East, 18th century to the present.
Room F305, University College

W. SALEH, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Qur'an and Tafsir, apocalyptic literature,
Bible in Islam, manuscript tradition
Room 220, 4 Bancroft Avenue

M.E. SUBTELNY, Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Classical Persian language and literature; history and culture of mediaeval Iran and Central Asia.
Room 216, 4 Bancroft Avenue

*M. TAVAKOLI-TARGHI, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Middle Eastern history, modernity, nationalism and Orientalism
Room 329, 4 Bancroft Avenue

 

J.G. TAYLOR, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Hebrew scriptures/Old Testament; Northwest Semitic languages and literatures.
Wycliffe College, 5 Hoskin Avenue

M.A. WEGNER, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
Egyptian language, history & archaeology
Room 422, 4 Bancroft Avenue

 

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

 

M. FADEL , Ph.D. (University of Chicago); J.D. (University of Virginia) 416-946-0589
mohammad.fadel@utoronto.ca

Assistant Professor of Law; Islamic Law
Faculty of Law, 78 Queen's Park

416-946-0740
katja.goebs@utoronto.ca
Brief curriculum vitae*K. GOEBS, Ph.D. (Oxford University)
Ancient Egyptian language and literature, religion, and history
Room 333, 4 Bancroft Avenue

 

S. GÜNTHER, DR.PHIL. (University of Halle-Wittenberg) +49-551-39-4397
s.guenther@uni-gottingen.de
Brief curriculum vitae
Arabic Language and Literature; Classical Islamic Thought, Islamic Education and Philosophy; Quran and Hadith
University of Göttingen, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies

 

J. HANSSEN, Ph.D. (Oxford University)
Modern Arab intellectual history; late Ottoman empire; urban studies; Middle East international relations
Room 317, 4 Bancroft Avenue

** R.D. HOLMSTEDT, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin) 416-978-3180
robert.holmstedt@utoronto.ca
Brief curriculum vitae
Biblical Hebrew language and Northwest Semitic languages
Room 412, 4 Bancroft Avenue

416-586-5696
robm@rom.on.ca
Visit Prof. Mason's website
Link to ROM websiteR. MASON, Ph.D. (Oxford University)
Archaeological materials, archeometry & medieval Middle Eastern archaeology
Royal Ontario Museum, room 606

416-946-3347
amira.mittermaier@utoronto.ca

A. MITTERMAIER , Ph.D. (Columbia University)
Modern Islam; Islamic Egypt; anthropology of Islam; modern Islamic thought
Room 332, Jackman Centre for the Humanities

moghissi@yorku.ca

H. MOGHISSI, Ph.D. (Queen's University)
Gender, politics and cultures in the Middle East; women and Islam; gender, violence & social policy; migration & diaspora
York University, Atkinson Faculty

416-946-3417
enrico.raffaelli@utoronto.caE. RAFFAELLI , Ph.D. (E.P.H.E. Paris)
Zoroastrianism
Room 328, 4 Bancroft Avenue

C. REICHEL, Ph.D. (University of Chicago) 416-946-0741
clemens.reichel@utoronto.ca
Mesopotamian archaeology
Room 406, 4 Bancroft Avenue

416-586-5692
karinr@rom.on.caK. RUEHRDANZ , D.Sc. Phil (Martin Luther University)
Islamic art and architecture
Royal Ontario Museum, room 606

604-827-4316
thomas.schneider@ubc.ca
T. SCHNEIDER, Dr.Phil. (Basel)
Egyptian history and chronology, cultural relations within the Ancient Near East, Egyptian phonolgy

S. VIRANI, Ph.D. (Harvard University)905-828-5283
shafique.virani@utoronto.ca

Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi'ism (both Twelver and Ismaili), Islamic literatures in Arabic, Persian and South Asian languages.

MEMBERS EMERITI

E. BIRNBAUM, Dipl OAS (University of London)
Ottoman and modern Turkish language and literature; Islamic manuscripts; Islamic bibliography.
Room 306, 4 Bancroft Avenue

J.R. BLACKBURN, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Ottoman history; Arabic language.

P.E. DION, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Literature and history of ancient Israel; West Semitic epigraphy.

L.R.M. GARSHOWITZ, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Medieval and modern Hebrew, Aramaic; Jewish history
Room 306, 4 Bancroft Avenue

L.V. GOLOMBEK, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
Islamic art and architecture, especially of Iran; Islamic epigraphy.
Royal Ontario Museum, room 606

kgrayson@chass.utoronto.ca

A.K. GRAYSON, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
Assyrian and Babylonian literature and history.

 

A. HASSANPOUR, Ph.D. (University of Illinois) 416-946-5216
amirhp@chass.utoronto.ca
Modern Middle East: social movements, nationalism, minority rights, media & communication technologies; social theory & methodology
Room 318, 4 Bancroft Avenue

J. S. HOLLADAY, JR., Th.D. (Harvard University)
Palestinian archaeology; Egyptian-Asian interconnections.
Room 420, 4 Bancroft Avenue

416-946-3461

A. JWAIDEH, D.Phil. (Oxford University)
Mediaeval Islamic history and modern Arab history; Abbasid society and economy; Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1914.
Room 219, 4 Bancroft Avenue
416-586-5695
edk@rom.on.ca
Link to Royal Ontario Museum page

 

E.J. KEALL, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
Archaeology of pre-Islamic Iran and Iraq; Islamic art and archaeology, Islamic city.
Royal Ontario Museum, room 606

R.T. LUTZ, (University of Toronto)
Biblical Hebrew language and literature
Room 306, 4 Bancroft Avenue

A. PIETERSMA, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Hellenistic Greek, concentrating on the so-called Septuagint.

E.J. REVELL, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Biblical Hebrew language, Masorah, Semitic grammar.

R. SANDLER, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
20th centure Persian literature; contemporary women writers
Room 206, 4 Bancroft Avenue

R. M. SAVORY, Ph.D. (University of London)
History of Iran; Persian language.
Larkin Building #202A, Trinity College

R.F.G. SWEET, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)
Babylonian literature; social and economic history.