Faculty and Staff

Director

Jennie Bradbury

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Areas of Focus
Social complexity in the ancient Near East; the role of "non-optimal" zones; burial traditions and mortuary practices; landscape archaeol...
Contact
Phone
610-526-5659
Location Old Library 214
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Faculty

Grace Morgan Armstrong

Eunice M. Schenck 1907 Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Director of Middle Eastern Languages
Areas of Focus
French Middle Ages, stylistics, women writers
Contact
Phone
610-526-5386
Location Old Library 150
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Edwige Crucifix

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Areas of Focus
20th and 21st C. Francophone Literature, Maghreb, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies.
Contact
Phone
610-526-5384
Location Old Library 146
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Pardis Dabashi

Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus
Twentieth-century literature, film, modernism, the novel, theory
Contact
Phone
610-526-5308
Location English House 211
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Sylvia W. Houghteling

Assistant Professor of History of Art
Areas of Focus
Early Modern Art | South Asian Art | Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Contact
Phone
610-526-5652
Location Old Library 232
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Agnès Peysson-Zeiss

Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies
Areas of Focus
20th-21st century Francophone Literature and Culture, Trauma Studies, Translation Studies and Foreign Language Pedagogy.
Contact
Phone
610-526-5387
Location Old Library 153
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Rubina K. Salikuddin

Assistant Professor on the Isabel Hamilton Benham Professorship in International Affairs
Areas of Focus
Medieval and early modern Iran and Central Asia, history of religion, commemoration and collective memory.
Contact
Phone
610-526-7747
Location Old Library 212
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Aytug Sasmaz

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Areas of Focus
Middle East politics; political parties; social policy; local politics; democratic decline
Contact
Phone
610-526-5326
Location Dalton 100G
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Staff