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Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

 

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Administrative Staff and Library Staff are listed separately,

as are Directors of Study for AMES, who are not necessarily Faculty staff.

Heads of Department

Middle Eastern Studies

Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies

 

East Asian Studies

Professor of East Asian History

 

Teaching & Research Staff

Professor Mikael Adolphson Photo by Danish Saroee for SCAS
Keidanren Professor of Japanese Studies
sma75@cam.ac.uk
Dr Paul Anderson
HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal University Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies, Assistant Director, HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies
psa27@cam.ac.uk
Dr Assef Ashraf
University Assistant Professor in the Eastern Islamic Lands and Persian-Speaking World
aa2098@cam.ac.uk
Dr Ian Atkinson
Research Associate in Hebrew Linguistics and Philology
ia431@cam.ac.uk
Dr Thomas P. Barrett
Postdoctoral Research Associate in East Asian History
tpb41@cam.ac.uk
Professor Amira K Bennison
Professor in the History and Culture of the Maghrib
amira.bennison@ames.cam.ac.uk
Professor Adam Yuet Chau
Professor of the Anthropology of China
ayc25@cam.ac.uk
Dr Po-Hsi Chen
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies
phc41@cam.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Duquette
Leverhulme Trust Research Associate, Late Vedānta project, Affiliated Lecturer in Sanskrit, Faculty of Divinity, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Trinity Hall
jd861@cam.ac.uk
Mrs Farida El Keiy
Language Teaching Officer in Arabic , Year Abroad Arabic Coordinator
fhmze2@cam.ac.uk
Dr Hajni Elias
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Affiliated Lecturer in Chinese Art and Material Culture
hpe20@cam.ac.uk
Dr Xin Fan Xin Fan
Teaching Associate in Modern Chinese History
xf247@cam.ac.uk
Dr Noga Ganany
University Assistant Professor in the Study of Late Imperial China
ng462@cam.ac.uk
Wiktor Gebski
Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow in Hebrew Studies
wmg24@cam.ac.uk
Dr Mahbod Ghaffari
Associate in Persian Language and Culture
mg695@cam.ac.uk
Dr Joseph Habib
Postdoctoral Associate in Hebrew Linguistics and Philology
jh2410@cam.ac.uk
Dr Mihye Harker
Korean Language Teaching Associate
mh963@cam.ac.uk
Dr Aaron D. Hornkohl
Language Teaching Officer in Hebrew
adh44@cam.ac.uk
Dr Heather Inwood
University Associate Professor in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
hi208@cam.ac.uk
Dr Benjamin Kantor
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
bk407@cam.ac.uk
Dr Miki Kawabata
University Associate Professor in Japanese
mk820@cam.ac.uk
Dr Saussan Khalil Saussan Khalil
Senior Teaching Associate in Arabic
smk58@cam.ac.uk
Professor Geoffrey Khan
Regius Professor of Hebrew
gk101@cam.ac.uk
Dr Nuri Kim
University Assistant Professor 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 Christian Locatell
Research Associate in Hebrew Studies
cl900@cam.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Marsham
Professor of Classical Arabic Studies
adm56@cam.ac.uk
Dr Masoud Mohammadirad
Research Associate in Linguistics
mm2613@cam.ac.uk
Dr Dorota Molin
Research Associate in Hebrew & Aramaic Studies
dm605@cam.c.uk
Dr Elizabeth Monier
Assistant Professor in Modern Arabic Studies
ei211@cam.ac.uk
Professor James Montgomery
Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
jem33@cam.ac.uk
Dr Paul Moore
Teaching Associate in Hebrew and Aramaic
pm470@cam.ac.uk
Professor Laura Moretti
Professor of Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
lm571@cam.ac.uk
Dr Vinoth Murali
Research Associate in Sanskrit Studies
vm443@cam.ac.uk
Dr John Nilsson-Wright
University Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Politics and International Relations
jhs22@cam.ac.uk
Dr Paul Noorlander Photo of Dr Paul Noorlander
Research Associate in Hebrew & Aramaic Studies
pmn32@cam.ac.uk
Dr Vladimir Olivero
Research Associate in Hebrew Linguistics and Philology
vo228@cam.ac.uk
Dr Charis Olszok
University Assistant Professor in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture
co383@cam.ac.uk
Ergin Opengin Man sitting in front of bookshelf
Research Associate in Iranian Linguistics
eo397@cam.ac.uk
Professor Yaron Peleg
Kennedy Leigh Professor of Modern Hebrew Studies
yp240@cam.ac.uk
Dr Nick Posegay
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
nrp40@cam.ac.uk
Dr Avital Rom Avital Rom, Dr Avital Rom
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Chinese Studies, Gulbenkian Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College
ahr33@cam.ac.uk
Dr Nanase Shirota
Japan & the World Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ns637@cam.ac.uk
Dr Henning Ambjörn Sjörs
Research Associate in Hebrew Studies
as2638@cam.ac.uk
Dr Brigitte Steger ブリギッテ・シテーガ
University Associate Professor 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
Professor Hans van de Ven FBA
Professor of Modern Chinese History
jjv10@cam.ac.uk
Professor Christine van Ruymbeke
Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies
cv223@cam.ac.uk
Ms Hsiaoching Wang
Language Teaching Associate in Chinese
hw522@cam.ac.uk
Dr Rong Wu
Chiang Ching-kuo Postdoctoral Fellow, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College
rw492@cam.ac.uk
Ms Emma Wu
University Associate Professor in Chinese
elw39@cam.ac.uk
Dr Victoria Young
Kawashima University Associate Professor in Japanese Literature and Culture
vy202@cam.ac.uk
Dr Lucy Zhao
Assistant Professor in Chinese Language & Linguistics
lz445@cam.ac.uk

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