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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

Associate 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.

Muriam H Davis

Muriam H Davis

Associate Professor

History Department

Areas of expertise: North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies


Biography, Education and Training

2004-2006: MA in Arab Studies, Georgetown University 2006-2008: MA in Culture and Theory, University of California, Irvine 2008-2015: PhD in History, NYU  2015-2016: Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute 


Areas of expertise: Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Critical Theory, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Thomas Serres is a specialist of North African and Mediterranean politics and his scholarship focuses on questions of crisis, economic restructuring and authoritarian upgrading. His first book studies the politics of catastrophization in post-civil war Algeria. This forthcoming monograph is entitled Managing the Crisis, Blaming the People: The Suspended Disaster in Bouteflika's Algeria (Gérer la Crise, Blâmer le Peuple: De la Catastrophe Suspendue dans l'Algérie de Bouteflika... more »


Areas of expertise: Political Theory, Middle East Studies


Biography, Education and Training

My areas of expertise are Arab and Islamic political thought, postcolonial theory, critical theory, comparative political theory, and Middle East politics.  I earned my MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Berkeley, and BA in Political Science from Cairo Univeristy. My research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, and the University of California President's Faculty Research Fellowship.  I am interested in studying how... more »


Areas of expertise: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Colonialism, Middle East Studies


Biography, Education and Training

I received my Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin, where I trained in transnational American studies, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, and comparative colonialisms. My research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism, U.S. empire, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. My first book, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke University Press, 202... more »

Azrikam Amram

Azrikam Amram

Israel Institute Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Assistant Adjunct Professor

Anthropology Department

Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Foreign Policy, Ethnography, Middle East Studies


Biography, Education and Training

  My research interests are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Food Anthropology, and tourism. My research engages specifically with the relations between Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in food spaces (namely, restaurants, cafes, markets, and culinary tours). Lately, I’m getting more and more interested in environmental issues, especially, the ways our food systems are influencing, and influenced by climate change.

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