STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Stanford, California

Program
Departments:
Cultural and Social Anthropology
History
Religious Studies
Program in Jewish Studies

Degrees Offered
BA
MA
PhD

Middle East Languages
Arabic (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced)
Hebrew (Beginning, Inter­mediate, Advanced)

Courses
Cultural and Social Anthropology
The Middle East Through Ethnography
History

Introduction to Islamic Civilization
Economic and Social History of the Modern Middle East
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Ottoman Empire
Islamic Reform on the Eve of Modernity Science in the Islamic World
Jews and Muslims
Zionism and its Critics
Jews in the Medieval Period
Jews in the Modern World
Judaism
The Modern European State and the Jews
Modern Jewish Identity
The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
Women in the Modern Middle East
Religious Studies

See Stanford Bulletin

Faculty
Cultural and Social Anthropology

Carol L. Delaney (Turkey)
History

Joel Beinin (modern Middle East, modern Egypt, Arab-Israeli conflict)
Kathryn Miller (Mudejars and Muslim Spain)
Aron Rodrigue (Ottoman Empire, Jews in the Middle East)
Ahmad Dallal (history of Islamic Science, early-modern Islam)
Steven Zipperstein (Zionism)
Jewish Studies

John Felstiner
Mark Mancall
Religious Studies 
Arnold Eisen (modern Judaism)
Charlotte Fonnobert (talmudic literature) 
Ebrahim Moosa (Islam)

Chairs/Directors
Carolyn Lougee-Chappell, Department of History
Steven Zipperstein, Program in Jewish Studies
Sylvia Yanugisako, Dept. of Culture and Social Anthropology
Carl Bielefeldt, Chair, Department of Religious Studies

Scholarships/Graduate Support
University fellowships (tuition plus stipend), FLAS Fellowships

Special Features
Joint degree with Humanities Special Program for PhD
MA History
JD Law

Inquiries
Department of History
Graduate Admissions Administrator
650-725-0712

Program in Jewish Studies
Steven Zipperstein, Director
650-725-5660
hf.szi@forsythe.Stanford.edu

Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
Chair
650-723-5038

Department of Religious Studies
Graduate Assistant
(650) 723-2548
rlente@leland.stanford.edu

Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305
www.stanford.edu

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 08, 2004

 

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