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Areas of expertise: Byzantine Studies, Mediterranean Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Licence in Mediaeval Studies, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto Ph.D., Byzantine Studies, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK M.A., Byzantine Studies, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK Certificate in Museology and Restoration of works of art, Universitá Internazionale dell’Arte, Florence, Italy Diploma, Art History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK B.A., Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece


Areas of expertise: Ancient World / Classics, Literature, Middle East Studies, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Globalization, Film, Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies and Judaism


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Yale University (Comparative Literature) B.A. Yale University (Art History; Italian Literature)

Camilo Gómez-Rivas

Camilo Gómez-Rivas

Professor of Mediterranean Studies

Literature Department

Areas of expertise: Middle Ages, Mediterranean Studies, Middle East Studies, Legal Studies


Biography, Education and Training

I specialize in the cultures, history, and literatures of the medieval and early modern western Mediterranean. My book, Law and the Islamization of Morocco under the Almoravids: the Fatwās of Ibn Rushd al-Jadd to the Far Maghrib, analyzes a group of legal consultative texts between Cordoba and the Far Maghrib (what is today Morocco) and argues that legal institutions developed in the latter in response to the social needs of growing urban spaces and the administrative needs of the first Berber-... more »

Alma R Heckman

Alma R Heckman

Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies, Associate Professor

History Department, Jewish Studies

Areas of expertise: Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. in History, UCLA, 2015. C.Phil. in History, UCLA, 2012. MA in History, UCLA, 2012. B.A. in French (major) and Middle Eastern Studies (major), Wellesley College, 2009.


Areas of expertise: Middle East Studies, North Africa, Mediterranean Studies, Sociology, Comparative Politics, Critical Theory, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies


Biography, Education and Training

My research spans the field of Middle Eastern studies, critical security studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and comparative politics, combining an ethnographic approach with a conceptual apparatus inspired by critical theory. I am particularly interested in the effects of protracted and entangled crises (popular uprisings, “war on terror,” refugee crisis, neoliberalization) in North Africa and beyond. My first book, The Suspended Disaster: Governance by Catastrophization in B... more »

Anne S Kreps

Anne S Kreps

Associate Professor

History Department

Areas of expertise: Ancient World / Classics, Mediterranean Studies, Religion and Secularism


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D University of Michigan, Near Eastern Studies M.A. University of California-Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies (Judaic Studies)

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