MELC Chair & Faculty Advisers
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Wali Ahmadi (284 Social Sciences Bld)
Associate Professor of Persian Literature
ahmadi@berkeley.edu
GRADUATE ADVISERS
Head Graduate Adviser & Graduate Adviser in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Niek Veldhuis (280 Social Sciences Bld)
Professor of Assyriology
veldhuis@berkeley.edu
Graduate Adviser in Islamic Studies/Arabic/Persian/Hebrew
Asad Q. Ahmed (272 Social Sciences Bld)
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
asad.ahmed@berkeley.edu
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISERS
Ancient Studies
Benjamin Porter (240 Social Sciences Bld)
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
bwporter@berkeley.edu
Islamic Studies/Arabic/Persian/Hebrew
Ahmad Diab (290 Social Scinces Bld)
Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature
diab@berkeley.edu
EQUITY ADVISER
Rita Lucarelli (266 Social Sciences Bld)
Associate Professor of Egyptology
lucarelli@berkeley.edu
FACULTY ADVISER FOR GSI AFFAIRS
Carol Redmount (244 Social Sciences Bld)
Associated Professor of Egyptology
redmount@berkeley.edu
