Affiliated Faculty

  • James P. Allen

    Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology

    Research Profile

    Interests: Ancient Egyptian language and literature

  • Laurel Bestock

    Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Egyptology and Assyriology, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture

    Research Profile

    Interests: Ancient Egypt; Sudan; archaeology

  • Susan Harvey

    Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion, Director of Early Cultures

    Research Profile

    Interests: Greek & Roman religions; late antiquity & Eastern Christianity

  • Nancy Khalek

    Associate Professor of Religious Studies

    Research Profile

    Interests: Hagiography; biography and historiography in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds; relic and saint veneration; Christian-Muslim dialogue; the relationship of material culture to religious life

  • Saul M. Olyan

    Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies, Director of the Judaic Studies Program, Professor of Religious Studies

    Research Profile

    Interests: Israelite and Canaanite history, literature and religion; history of biblical interpretation

  • Michael Satlow

    Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies

    Research Profile

    Interests: Early Judaism; issues of gender, sexuality, and marriage among Jews in antiquity; Dead Sea scrolls; Jewish theology; methodology in Religious Studies; the social history of Jews during the rabbinic period

  • John Steele

    Professor of Egyptology and Assyriology

    Research Profile

    Interests: Egyptology; history of science