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Faculty of Oriental Studies

University of Oxford

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Diwakar Acharya

Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics

Usaama al-Azami

Usaama al-Azami

Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies

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Walter Armbrust

Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Arrzou Azad

Arezou Azad

Senior Research Fellow

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Imre Bangha

Associate Professor of Hindi

Umberto Bongianino

Umberto Bongianino

Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture

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Marilyn Booth

Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World

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Julia Bray

The Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic

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Dominic Parviz Brookshaw

Associate Professor of Persian Literature

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Emine Çakır

Instructor in Turkish

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Robert L. Chard

Associate Professor of Classical Chinese

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Young-hae Chi

Instructor in Korean

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Stephanie Cronin

Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Research Fellow

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Jacob L. Dahl

Professor of Assyriology

Matthew Erie

Matthew S. Erie

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies

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Giulia Falato

Departmental Lecturer in Chinese

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Jing Fang

Instructor in Chinese

George FitzHerbert

George FitzHerbert

Departmental Lecturer in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

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Linda M. Flores

Associate Professor of Japanese Literature

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Bjarke Frellesvig

Professor of Japanese Linguistics

Elizabeth Frood

Elizabeth Frood

Associate Professor of Egyptology

Christina Geisen

Christina Geisen

Departmental Lecturer in Egyptology

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Alain Fouad George

I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art & Architecture

Maziyar Ghiabi

Maziyar Ghiabi

Departmental Lecturer in Modern Iranian History

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Martin Goodman

Professor of Jewish Studies

Jennifer Guest

Associate Professor of Japanese

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Junko Hagiwara

Senior Instructor in Japanese

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Otared Haidar

Instructor in Arabic

Husam Haj Omar

Husam Haj Omar

Instructor in Arabic

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Henrietta Harrison

Stanley Ho Professor of Chinese History

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Nancy Hawker

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

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Edmund Herzig

Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies

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Margaret Hillenbrand

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

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Bo Hu

Instructor in Chinese

Pamela Hunt

Pamela Hunt

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

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Lama Jabb

Instructor in Tibetan

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Adriana X. Jacobs

Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature

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Nadia Jamil

Senior Instructor in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic

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Jeremy Johns

Professor of the Art & Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean

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Hiroe Kaji

Instructor in Japanese

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Shio-yun Kan

Senior Instructor in Chinese

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Taj Kandoura

Instructor in Arabic

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Jieun Kiaer

Young Bin Min-KF Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics

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Marianna Klar

Post-Doctoral Researcher (QuCIP project)

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James B. Lewis

Associate Professor of Korean History

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John J. Lowe

Associate Professor of Sanskrit

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Christopher Melchert

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Dirk Meyer

Associate Professor of Chinese Philosophy

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Laurent Mignon

Associate Professor of Turkish

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Christopher Minkowski

Boden Professor of Sanskrit

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Kaori Nishizawa

Instructor in Japanese

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Aslı Niyazioğlu

Associate Professor in Ottoman History

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Polly O'Hanlon

Professor in Indian History and Culture

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Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Director of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; President of OCHJS

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Mohamed-Salah Omri

Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature

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Richard Bruce Parkinson

Professor of Egyptology

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Luigi Prada

British Academy Research Fellow

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Tariq Ramadan (on leave of absence)

HH Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies

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David Rechter

Professor of Modern Jewish History

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Frances Reynolds

Shillito Fellow in Assyriology (part time)

Ulrike Roesler

Ulrike Roesler

Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Faculty Board Chair

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Eugene L. Rogan

Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History

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Christian C. Sahner

Associate Professor of Islamic History

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Alison G. Salvesen

Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity

Maren Schentuleit

Maren Schentuleit

Associate Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Studies

Nora K. Schmid

Nora K. Schmid

Post-Doctoral Researcher (QuCIP project)

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John Screnock

Research Fellow in Hebrew Bible

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Sahba Shayani

Instructor in Persian

Brasenose College

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Robert Simpson

Faculty Tutor (Ancient Egyptian and Coptic)

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Nicolai Sinai

Professor of Islamic Studies

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Yang Song

Shaw Instructor in Chinese

Tian Yuan Tan

Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅

Shaw Professor of Chinese

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David G.K. Taylor

Associate Professor of Aramaic and Syriac

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Luke Treadwell

Samir Shamma Lecturer in Islamic Numismatics

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Shelagh Vainker

Associate Professor of Chinese Art

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Theo Maarten van Lint

Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies

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Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina

Bahari Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies

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Zoe Waxman

Departmental Lecturer in Modern Jewish History

Ben Williams

Benjamin Williams

James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinic Hebrew

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Paul Wordsworth

Wainwright Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Zeynep Yürekli

Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture

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Gil Zahavi

Instructor in Modern Hebrew

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David Zakarian

Associate Faculty Member