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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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William Hoyt Worrell |
1908 - 1910 1925 - 1949 |
Professor of Semitics |
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George G. Cameron |
1948 - 1975 |
Professor of Near Eastern Studies Chair Department of Near Eastern Studies |
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George F Hourani |
1950 - 1967 | Professor of Arabic Studies |
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Ernest N. McCarus |
1952 - 1995 |
Professor of Arabic and Kurdish Chair Department of Near Eastern Studies |
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George E. Mendenhall |
1952 - 1986 | Professor of Ancient and Biblical Studies |
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Herbert H. Paper |
1953 - 1977 | Professor of Linguistics and Near Eastern Studies |
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George Makdisi |
1953 | Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies 1957 |
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James Stewart Robinson |
1956 - 2000 | Professor of Turkish Studies |
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Oscar L. Chavarria Aguilar |
1957 - 1967 |
Professor of Indic Languages and Linguistics Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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James A. Bellamy |
1959 - 1995 |
Professor of Arabic Literature Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Kenneth Allin Luther |
1963 - 1997 | Professor of Persian Studies |
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John F. Kolars |
1964 - 1994 |
Professor of Near Eastern Studies Professor of Geography |
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Charles R. Krahmalkov |
1965 - 2004 | Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature |
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John A. Bailey |
1966 - 1980 | Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literature |
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Gernot L. Windfuhr |
1966 - 2009 |
Professor of Iranian Studies Chair Department of Near Eastern Studies |
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Raji M. Rammuny |
1966 - 2014 | Professor of Arabic |
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Ernest T. Abdel-Massih |
1968 - 1982 |
Professor of Arabic & Berber Director Center for Near Eastern & North African Studies |
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Edna A. Coffin |
1970 - 2002 |
Professor of Modern Hebrew Research Scientist Center for Research on Learning and Teaching |
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David N. Freedman |
1971 - 1993 |
Professor of Biblical Studies Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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James W. Flanagan |
1973 - 1974 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Ziona Hanash Kopelovich |
1975 | Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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David C. Jacobson |
1977 - 1979 |
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Matthew W. Stolper |
1977 - 1980 | Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Piotr A Michalowski |
1981 - 2016 |
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilization & Languages Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Kovork B. Bardakjian |
1983 - 2000 |
Marie Manoogian Professor of Armenian Languages and Literature Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Avraham Balaban |
1984 - 1989 | Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Raymond Joseph Hoffmann |
1986 | Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Peter B. Machinist |
1986 - 1990 | Associate Professor of Biblical Studies |
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Mustansir Mir |
1986 - 1993 | Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Raymond H. Van Dam |
1987 - 2016 |
Professor of History Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Kevork B. Bardakjian |
1987 - 2020 |
Professor of Armenian Languages & Literatures Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures |
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Jarl E. Fossum |
1988 - 1998 | Professor of New Testament Studies |
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Mark S. Bernstein |
1992 - 1999 | Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies |
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Norman Yoffee |
1993 - 2010 |
Professor of Near Eastern Studies Chair Department of Near Eastern Studies Curator, Museum of Anthropology |
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Sherman A. Jackson |
1997 - 2011 |
Professor of Near Eastern Studies Arthur F. Thurnau Professor |