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Administrative Staff and Library Staff are listed separately.

Heads of Department

Middle Eastern Studies

Prof Yaron Peleg

yp240@cam.ac.uk

Kennedy Leigh Professor in Modern Hebrew Studies

East Asian Studies

Professor Barak Kushner

bk284@cam.ac.uk

Professor of East Asian History

Teaching & Research Staff

Professor Mikael Adolphson

Keidanren Professor of Japanese Studies
sma75@cam.ac.uk

Dr Paul Anderson

University Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, Assistant Director, HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies
psa27@cam.ac.uk

Dr Assef Ashraf

Lecturer in the Eastern Islamic Lands and Persian-Speaking World
aa2098@cam.ac.uk

Dr Joshua Batts

Research Associate in Japanese Studies
jb2288@cam.ac.uk

Professor Amira K Bennison

Professor in the History and Culture of the Maghrib
amira.bennison@ames.cam.ac.uk

Mrs Toshimi Boulding

Language Teacher in Japanese
tb293@cam.ac.uk

Dr Adam Yuet Chau

Reader in the Anthropology of China
ayc25@cam.ac.uk

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Taiwan Studies
phc41@cam.ac.uk

Dr Kuan-Jen Chen

Isaac Newton Trust Postdoctoral Research Associate
kjc46@cam.ac.uk

Dr Magdalen M. Connolly

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
mmc53@cam.ac.uk

Dr Jonathan Duquette

Affiliated Lecturer in Sanskrit
jd861@cam.ac.uk

Mrs Farida El Keiy

Language Teaching Officer in Arabic , Year Abroad Arabic Coordinator
fhmze2@cam.ac.uk

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
hpe20@cam.ac.uk

Professor Khaled Fahmy FBA

His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa'id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies
kf375@cam.ac.uk

Dr Imre Galambos

Reader in Chinese
iig21@cam.ac.uk

University Lecturer in the Study of Late Imperial China
ng462@cam.ac.uk

Dr Mahbod Ghaffari

Associate in Persian Language and Culture
mg695@cam.ac.uk

Dr Mihye Harker

Sessional Instructor in Korean Language
mh963@cam.ac.uk

Dr Rachael Harris

Senior Language Teaching Officer in Arabic
rmh1001@cam.ac.uk

Dr Aaron D. Hornkohl

Language Teaching Officer in Hebrew
adh44@cam.ac.uk

Dr Heather Inwood

University Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture
hi208@cam.ac.uk

Dr Benjamin Kantor

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
bk407@cam.ac.uk

Dr Miki Kawabata

Senior Language Teaching Officer in Japanese
mk820@cam.ac.uk

Dr Saussan Khalil

Senior Arabic Language Teacher
smk58@cam.ac.uk

Professor Geoffrey Khan

Regius Professor of Hebrew
gk101@cam.ac.uk

University Lecturer in Korean Studies
nk588@cam.ac.uk

Mr Aishwarj Kumar

Language Teaching Officer in Hindi
ak403@cam.ac.uk

Professor Barak Kushner

Professor of East Asian History
bk284@cam.ac.uk

Dr Johan Lundberg

AHRC Research Assistant
jmvl2@cam.ac.uk

Dr Andrew Marsham

Reader in Classical Arabic Studies
adm56@cam.ac.uk

Professor Charles Melville

Emeritus Professor of Persian History, President, British Institute of Persian Studies, Director, Shahnama Project
cpm1000@cam.ac.uk

Dr Sherif Mohamed

Senior Language Teaching Officer in Arabic
sm2491@cam.ac.uk

Dr Masoud Mohammidirad

Masoud Mohammadirad

Research Associate in Hebrew Studies
mm2613@cam.ac.uk

Dr Dorota Molin

Research Associate in Hebrew & Aramaic Studies
dlm605@cam.c.uk

Professor James Montgomery

Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
jem33@cam.ac.uk

Dr Laura Moretti

Senior Lecturer in Pre-Modern Japanese Studies
lm571@cam.ac.uk

Dr John Nilsson-Wright

University Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Politics and International Relations
jhs22@cam.ac.uk

Dr Paul Noorlander

Research Associate in Hebrew & Aramaic Studies
pmn32@cam.ac.uk

Dr Charis Olszok

University Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture
co383@cam.ac.uk

Prof Yaron Peleg

Kennedy Leigh Professor in Modern Hebrew Studies
yp240@cam.ac.uk

Nicholas Posegay

Research Associate in Hebrew Studies
nrp40@cam.ac.uk

Dr Michael Rand

University Lecturer in Hebrew & Aramaic
mcr47@cam.ac.uk

Dr Henning Ambjorn Sjörs

Research Associate in Hebrew Studies
as2638@cam.ac.uk

Dr Brigitte Steger ブリギッテ・シテーガ

Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies
bs382@cam.ac.uk

Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science and Civilization
rs10009@cam.ac.uk

Mrs Kazumi Tanaka

Senior Language Teaching Officer in Japanese
kt486@cam.ac.uk

Christopher Tso

Research Associate in Japanese Studies
cjt74@cam.ac.uk

Professor Hans van de Ven FBA

Professor of Modern Chinese History
jjv10@cam.ac.uk

Dr Christine van Ruymbeke

Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Reader in Persian Studies
cv223@cam.ac.uk

Dr Vincenzo Vergiani

University Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
vv234@cam.ac.uk

Hsiaoching Wang

Language Teaching Officer in Chinese
hw522@cam.ac.uk

Language Teaching Officer in Chinese
elw39@cam.ac.uk

Dr Victoria Young

Kawashima Lecturer in Japanese Literature and Culture
vy202@cam.ac.uk

Reader in Chinese Language and Linguistics
by10001@cam.ac.uk

University Lecuter in Chinese Language & Linguistics
lz445@cam.ac.uk