People

Erin Dickerson

erindickerson@fas.harvard.edu

AM Candidate in Regional Studies—Middle East

Erin Dickerson earned her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 2026, majoring in Middle Eastern studies with a concentration in Turkish and a minor in political science. She is a Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) recipient, Foreign Language and...

Majid Dohan

PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Middle East Studies

Eric Edstam

eedstam@fas.harvard.edu

Web Editor and Communications Coordinator

Eric received his AB in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard and has worked at the University for several years, at the Divinity School, the Center for the Study of World Religions, and the Economics Department. He has studied studio...

Khaled El-Rouayheb

kel@fas.harvard.edu

James Richard Jewett Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Khaled El-Rouayheb’s research interests include: the intellectual and cultural history of the Arabic-Islamic world in the Mamluk and early-Ottoman periods (1200-1800); the history of Arabic logic; Islamic theology and philosophy. He holds a BA in...

Mark Elliott

Vice Provost for International Affairs

Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History

Nalan Erbil

nalanerbil@fas.harvard.edu

Preceptor in Modern Turkish, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Nalan Erbil’s research focuses on nineteenth-century Ottoman and modern Turkish literature, migration, and Turkish language pedagogy. Her current project theorizes an Ottoman and Turkish literary critical-ethical method implicit in the concept and...

Deren Ertas

derenertas@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies

I am a PhD Candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program at Harvard University. My research interests include state-formation, environmental history, the history of economic and political thought, and labor history. My dissertation...

Leila Fawaz

Leila.Fawaz@tufts.edu

Visiting Scholar

Professor Emerita, Tufts University

Leila Fawaz is Professor Emerita of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School and of History in the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. She was the founding director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean...

Noah Feldman

nfeldman@law.harvard.edu

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Noah Feldman is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard and the Founding Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School. He is the Chair of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, co-chair...

Elizabeth Flanagan

elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu

Program Coordinator for Events

Before joining CMES Liz worked for over five years in the office of Harvard's Vice President for Administration, where she managed the Vice President's daily schedule, correspondence, special events and web news. She has an MA in Art History from Columbia...

Luis Manuel Girón Negrón

giron@fas.harvard.edu

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Professor Girón-Negrón was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and has been teaching at Harvard since he obtained his doctoral degree in 1997. In his teaching and in his research, he seeks to elucidate the interplay between the languages and literatures of...

Byron Good

byron_good@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology and former Chair (2000-06), Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Professor Good conducted research...