People

Active Faculty

• Tina Chronopoulos
  Email: tchronop@binghamton.edu
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and Medieval Studies. PhD, 2006, King's College London, University of London. Classical/medieval Latin literature, lives of saints, transmission of classical literature, palaeography.
• Tayseer Gomaa
  Email: tgomaa@binghamton.edu
  Lecturer in Arabic and Near Eastern Studies, PhD, 1995, Alexandria University: Anthropology and Cultural History.
• Gerald E. Kadish
  Email: kadishg@binghamton.edu
  Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies, PhD, 1964, University of Chicago: Ancient Egyptian.
• R. Kevin Lacey
  Email: klacey@binghamton.edu
  Associate Professor of Arabic, PhD, 1984, Harvard University: Arabic language and literature, Arabic language teaching, Islamic intellectual history, Islamic mysticism, Persian language and literature.
• Eid Mohamed
  Email: emohamed@binghamton.edu
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic, PhD, 2011, George Washington University: Middle Eastern Studies, Arab history and culture, US-Middle East encounters.
• Talat Okby
  Email: tokby@stny.rr.com
  Adjunct Professor of Arabic. MLS, 1970, State University of New York at Albany. Classical Arabic poetry and multimedia.
• Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit
  Email: zppetit@binghamton.edu
  Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics, PhD, 1962, Cornell University: Classical Greek and Latin literature, satire, irony, pastoral poetry, mythology.
• Andrew Scholtz
  Email: ascholtz@binghamton.edu
  Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of Department, Ph.D. 1997, Yale University: Greek Literature.
• John H. Starks, Jr.
  Email: jstarks@binghamton.edu
  Assistant Professor of Classics, Ph.D. 2004, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Non-Western Ethnicity in the Classical World, Greek and Roman Drama, Roman Historiography.

Emeriti

• SauI Levin
  Distinguished Professor of Ancient Languages, Emeritus, PhD, 1949, University of Chicago: Comparative linguistics, early literature, Bible.
• Khalil I. Semaan
  Professor Emeritus of Arabic, PhD, 1959, Columbia University: Arabic and Islamic thought and letters.
• Daniel Williman
  Professor of Latin and History, PhD, 1973, University of Toronto: Medieval Europe; institutional and cultural history; Latin language and medieval Latin literature; history of European law; codicology and library history; paleography and diplomatics; Avignonese papacy, 1316-1420.

Staff

Margaret Dwyer
Email: mdwyer@binghamton.edu
Departmental Secretary

Phone: (607) 777-6709
Fax: (607) 6406

Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, LT1117
Binghamton University
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
PO BOX 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

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