Less Recent Emeriti:
Emeriti Faculty
(In order of retirement)
Chava Boyarin, Lecturer in Hebrew
Jaleh Pirnazar, Lecturer in Persian, ret. 2018
Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, ret. 2011
Martin Schwartz, Professor of Iranian Studies, ret. 2011
Hamid Algar, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Persian Literature, ret. 2010
Ayla Algar, Lecturer in Turkish
Guitty Azarpay, Professor of Near Eastern studies, ret. 2004
Anne D. Kilmer, Professor of Assyriology, ret. 2001
Wolfgang Heimpel, Professor of Mesopotamian and Sumerian cultures, ret. 2000
Muhammad Siddiq, Professor of Arabic Literature
David Larkin, Lecturer in Egyptology
James Monroe, Professor of Classical Arabic Literature
In Memoriam
David Stronach (1931–2020), Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology from 1981 to 2008.
Ariel Bloch (1933–2018), Professor of Near Eastern Studies from the 1960s to 1994.
William Brinner (1924-2011), Professor of Near Eastern Studies from 1956 to 1991.
Cathleen Keller (1945-2008), Professor of Egyptology from 1983 to 2008.