Middle Eastern Studies Affiliate Faculty

Mohammad Alhawary, Associate Professor
MLL & L/IAS, Kaufman Hall, rm 218
Phone: (405) 325-1467; E-mail
Ph.D. from Georgetown University; Arabic applied linguistics; Arabic grammatical and lexicographic tradition; Classical & Neoclassical Arabic literature; literary and cultural theory.



Khosrow Bozorgi, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Architecture, Gould Hall, rm 162
Phone: (405) 325-3348; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania; Islamic architecture history/theory; Middle Eastern architecture



Firat Demir, Assistant Professor
Economics, Hester Hall 324a
Phone: (405) 325-5844; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame; international finance, and economic development



Charles Kimball, Presidential Professor and Director of Religious Studies
Religious Studies Program, Dale Hall Tower 804
Phone: (405) 325-5015; Email
Th.D. from Harvard university, the Divinity School; History of Religion with specialization in Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations



Ori Kritz, Assistant Professor
MLL & L, Kaufman Hall, rm 206
Phone: (405) 325-1542, E-mail
Ph.D. from Columbia University; Hebrew language and Jewish literature (Jewish humor; Hebrew Bible as literature; modern Hebrew prose; Jewish literature: from Bible to modern American)



Joshua Landis, Assistant Professor
History/IAS, Hester Hall, rm 123
Phone: (405) 325-6356; E-mail
Ph.D. from Princeton University; history of Islam; Islamic politics today; society and culture in the modern Middle East; religion in modern Middle Eastern politics; The Arab-Israeli conflict; topics in U.S. diplomatic relations in the Middle East; International relations in the Middle East



Shmuel Shepkaru, Associate Professor
History, DAHT, rm 305
Phone: (405) 325-6508; E-mail
Ph.D. from New York University; Late Antiquity and Medieval Jewish History, Hebrew



Daniel Snell, L.J. Semrod Presidential Professor of History
History, DAHT, rm 403a
Phone: (405) 325-6002; E-mail
Ph.D. from Stanford University; Near Eastern studies; Near East languages and literature



Dinah Assouline Stillman, French Instructor
Modern Languages, Kaufaman Hall 340
Phone: (405) 325-1425; E-mail
Master’s in Hebrew Linguistics, "licences d'enseignement et de litterature" from the Sorbonne in English and Hebrew and a Diplome Superieur in Modern Hebrew from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris; Postcolonialist cultures & literatures (films), French Culture, Literature and Cinema



Norman A. Stillman, Schusterman/Josey Chair of Judaic History
History, DAHT 305d-f
Phone: (405) 325-6508; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania; Islamic social history and culture, Arabic dialectology with an interest in Jews and other minorities, the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia)



David R. Vishanoff, Assistant Professor
Religious Studies, Dael Hall Tower 804
Phone: (405) 325-1150; E-mail
Ph.D. from Emory University; Islamic theology, law, and religion; Muslim-non-Muslim interaction; comparative sacred texts; religious interaction in South Asia; introduction to religious studies; Abrahamic religions; Arabic language.