Faculty Research Areas

• Ancient History
• Ancient Languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Greek, Coptic, Latin)
• Ancient history
• Ancient trade and international relations
• Arabic literature
• Archaeology
• Archaeology
• Archaeology of the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon)
• Bronze Age
• Christianity
• Classical Arabic Literature
• Classical Washington
• Critical Theory
• Cultural Heritage
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• Curriculum Theory
• Economic Development
• Ethics of Alterity
• Gender Studies
• Grammaticalization; typology; proficiency assessment; business Arabic; foreign language for specific purposes
• Greek and Roman echoes in early American art
• Integrating technology in teaching and learning foreign languages
• Intersectionality
• Islam
• Jewish Studies
• Judaism
• Language and identity
• Literacies and Translanguaging
• Military history
• Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture
• Multilingual Education
• Multilingual Literature/ Arabic Literature
• Poetry performance
• Roman Near East
• Roman art and archaeology
• Roman sculpture
• Second language acquisition
• Standards- Based Curriculum and Assessment Design
• Task-Based Language Learning
• Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
• Tourism
• Umayyad era
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