Senior Research Scholar

Keith Feldman

Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Ethnic Studies

Keith P. Feldman is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies and a core faculty member in the Program in Critical Theory. Trained in literary and cultural studies, his research interests include Theories of Race and Ethnicity; Cultures of the African, Arab, and Jewish Diasporas; Visual Culture Studies; Postcolonial Theory; and Critical Theory. Feldman received his BA in Literature from Brown University in 2000, his MA in Literature from the George Washington University in 2003, and his PhD in Literature from the University of Washington in 2008.

Mia Fuller

Associate Professor of Italian Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Italian Studies

Mia Fuller is an Associate Professor of Italian Studies. She is a cultural anthropologist who has combined fieldwork and archival research in her studies of architecture and city planning in the Italian colonies between 1869 and 1943. Her book on the subject, Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism (Routledge, 2007) won the International Planning History Society Book Prize, 2008. She is also the co-editor (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat) of Italian Colonialism (Palgrave, 2005), and she collaborated with filmmaker Caterina Borelli on the documentary film “Asmara...

Reza Ghahramani

Lecturer in Persian; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Born in Shiraz, Iran, Reza Ghahramanifirst started to learn German after High school on his own and quickly grew to love the German language, and eventually decided to earn two bachelor’s degrees at once: one in German Language and Literature from the Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) and one in the Applied Translation (German-Persian) from the Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch (IAUCTB) both in Tehran.

Ghahramani continued his education at the Tarbiat Modares University (TBU) in Tehran receiving a M.A. in German Pedagogy with a MA thesis entitled “...

Soroor Ghanimati

Guitty Azarpay Distinguished Visiting Instructor; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Soroor Ghanimati was the Guitty Azarpay Distinguished Visiting Instructor in the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (previous the Department of Near Eastern Studies). Soroor Ghanimati received her Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation entitled "Kuh-e Khwaja: A Major Zoroastrian Temple Complex in Sistan." Dr. Ghanimati has many publications and extensive archaeological field work. She speaks English, Persian, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Classical...

Deniz Göktürk

Professor of German; CMES Senior Research Scholar
German

Professor Göktürk earned her Dr.phil. at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in 1995, with a dissertation on literary and cinematic imaginations of America in early twentieth-century German culture. She also worked as a certified translator of Turkish for law courts, hospitals and publishers for several years. Her first full-time teaching appointment was at the University of Southampton, UK, in the School of Modern Languages and the Film Program from 1995 to 2001. She joined the Department of German at Berkeley in fall 2001. She has served as graduate adviser and, since 2013, department...

Emily Gottreich

Adjunct Professor of Global Studies and Political Economy; CMES Senior Research Scholar
History
International and Area Studies

Emily Gottreich is an Adjunct Professor in Global Studies and Political Economy and Faculty Affiliate in the departments of History and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Between 2009-2013 she was the President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). She is also Founding Director (along with Aomar Baum, UCLA and Susan Miller, UC Davis) of the MENA-J (MENA Jewry) Program, a UC-systemwide initiative to study, document, and preserve Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa.

Prof. Gottreich received a Ph.D. in...

Atreyee Gupta

Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art
History of Art

Atreyee Gupta’s area of expertise is Global Modernism, with a special emphasis on the aesthetic and intellectual flows that have cut across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the twentieth century onwards. Her research and teaching interests cluster around visual and intellectual histories of twentieth-century art; the intersections among the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement, and art after 1945; new media and experimental cinema; and the question of the global as materially, intellectually, and politically constellated around decolonization....

Bruce Hall

Associate Professor of History; CMES Senior Research Scholar
History

Bruce Hall is Associate Professor of History. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual history in West and North Africa, located at the intersection of West Africa’s Muslim high intellectual culture and social and economic issues which that intellectual culture sought to address. His first book, A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) is an intellectual history of arguments made about race and slavery in the West African Sahel. It reveals the long history of racial ideas in this region, and the different work that racial ideas were made to...

John L. Hayes

Lecturer Emeritus in Arabic and Comparative Semitics; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

John Hayes received his Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA in 1984. Since then he has taught at Cal, with occasional visiting stints elsewhere. His principal interests are Semitic linguistics; the history of Arabic and the grammatical study of Arabic; Sumerian; the contemporary Middle East. Dr. Hayes is a recipient of an Honorary Membership in the Golden Key International Honor Society.

Courses taught by Dr. Hayes include: Semitics 100A-B: Aramaic; Semitics 205A-B: Ugaritic; Semitics 209A-B: Northwest Semitic epigraphy; Semitics 200A:...

Ron Hendel

Norma and Sam Dabby Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Ron Hendel was the Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies. He served as a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1999 and has served as chair of Jewish Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. Hendel approaches the Hebrew Bible from a variety of angles – history of religions, textual criticism, linguistics, comparative mythology, literature, and cultural memory. He is the editor-in-chief of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition, a new critical edition of the Hebrew text, whose first...