Senior Research Scholar

Maria Mavroudi

Professor of History and Ancient Greek & Roman Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar
History
Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Maria Mavroudi is a Professor in the department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies (DAGRS) and History. She is a Byzantinist, whose research focuses on the relations between Byzantium and the Arabs, especially bilingualism in Greek and Arabic in the Middle Ages and its implications for cultural exchange between the Byzantine and Islamic world, including the development of Byzantine and Islamic science. Mavroudi earned her B.A. in Philology from the University of Thessaloniki and her Ph.D. in Byzantine Studies at Harvard University. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars in the field...

Sanjyot Mehendale

Lecturer in Central Asian Archaeology; Chair
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
Numata Center for Buddhist Studies

Dr. Sanjyot Mehendale is an archaeologist specializing in trade and cultural exchange of the early Common Era. She serves as Chair of the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Vice-Chair of the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies and Lecturer in Central Asian Archaeology in the...

Minoo Moallem

Professor of Gender and Women's Studies; Director of Media Studies; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Gender & Women's Studies

Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies. She chaired the Gender and Women’s Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley from 2008–2010 and the Women’s Studies department at San Francisco State University from 2001–2006. Moallem has recently ventured in digital media. Her online project, “Nation-on-the Move”(design by Eric Loyer), was recently published in Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (Special issue on Difference, Fall 2007). She is currently working on a book exploring the commodification of the nation through...

Haitham Salah El-Din Mohamed

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

Haitham Mohamed has been lecturer of Arabic at Berkeley since 2013. Prior to that he taught at the American University in Cairo.

Khalid M. Mosalam

Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering; Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Khalid M. Mosalam is Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center and Taisei Chair Professor of Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the built environment and infrastructure and their resiliency in the face of extreme events. Prof. Mosalam also chairs the Al Falah Program in Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley, which aims at facilitating technical and academic exchange between UC Berkeley and counterparts in the Middle East or Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries on issues of science and technology that are of common interest...

Laura Nader

Professor of Anthropology; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Anthropology

Laura Nader is a Professor of Anthropology. Her current work focuses on how central dogmas are made and how they work in law, energy science, and anthropology. Nader’s areas of interest include comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, comparative family organization, the anthropology of professional mindsets and ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America, and the contemporary United States. Her films To Make the Balance and Little Injusticesare widely disseminated. Nader is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in...

Dima Nasser

Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Rexhina Ndoci

Lecturer in Modern Greek
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Stefania Pandolfo

Professor of Anthropology; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Anthropology

Stefania Pandolfo is an Associate Professor of Anthropology. Her research involves the study of theories and forms of subjectivity and their contemporary predicaments in the Middle Eastern and Muslim world. Pandolfo’s writing, teaching and research cover the following themes: narrative, trauma, psychoanalysis and the unconscious, memory, historicity and the hermeneutics of disjuncture, language and poetics, experimental ethnographic writing, anthropology and literature, dreaming and the anthropological study of the imagination, intercultural approaches to different ontologies and systems...

Laurie Pearce

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

Laurie Pearce is a Lecturer in Assyriology in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches courses in the Akkadian language, the history of Mesopotamia. Her research interests are focused on the social and economic history of Babylonia in the late first millennium BCE.