Near and Middle Eastern Studies

Emeritus Faculty

Jere Bacharach (deceased) (PhD, History, Michigan, 1967), Professor Emeritus, History;
Research Interests: the Islamic Middle East
jere@uw.edu
Gad Barzilai (PhD, Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1987), Professor Emeritus, Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS);
Research Interests: political science and law; politics, law, state and society
gbarzil@uw.edu
Daniel Chirot (PhD, Sociology, Columbia, 1973), Professor, Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS) & Sociology;
Research and Teaching Interests: causes of ethnic conflict and its solutions
chirot@uw.edu
Nicholas Heer (PhD, Oriental Studies, Princeton, 1955), Professor Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (NELC);
Research Interests:  Arabic language and literature, Islamic theology and philosophy
heer@uw.edu
Martin Jaffee (PhD, Religious Studies, Brown, 1980), Professor Emeritus, Comparative Religion, Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS);
Research Interests: Judaism in late antiquity
jaffee@uw.edu
Joel Migdal (PhD, Political Science, Harvard, 1972), Professor Emeritus, Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS);
Research and Teaching Interests: state and society in the Third World, Middle East politics
migdal@uw.edu
James W. Murray (PhD, Chemical Oceanography, MIT, 1973), Professor Emeritus, Oceanography, College of the Environment;
Research Interests: chemical oceanography in the Black Sea and eastern tropical Pacific
jmurray@uw.edu
Haideh Salehi-Esfahani(PhD, Economics, U. Pennsylvania 1985), Principal Lecturer, Economics;
Research and Teaching Interests: international economics, economic development
haideh@uw.edu
Philip Schuyler (PhD, Music, UW, 1979), Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Music/Ethnomusicology
Research Interests: ethnography of performance, Middle East, Africa, Arab world
pds2@uw.edu
Michael Williams (PhD, Religion, Harvard, 1977), Professor, Comparative Religion, Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS)
Research and Teaching Interests:early Christianity and religions of antiquity; heterodox religious movements; alternative cosmological myths and social behaviors