Middle East
Faculty
- Choon Hwee Koh: Ph.D., Yale University, 2020
Ottoman Empire
chkoh@history.ucla.edu - Michael Morony: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1972
Pre-Modern Middle East
310-825-1962; morony@history.ucla.edu - James L. Gelvin: Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992
Social and Cultural History of the Modern Middle East
310-206-4854; gelvin@history.ucla.edu - Sebouh Aslanian: Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007.
Early Modern World and Armenian History; Middle Eastern Studies
310-825-4261; saslanian@history.ucla.edu
Emeritus Faculty
- Nikki Keddie: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Iranian History
keddie@history.ucla.edu - Afaf Marsot: Ph.D., Oxford University, 1963
Egyptian History
amarsot@ucla.edu
Affiliated Faculty
- Jessica Goldberg: Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006
Medieval History; Jewish History; History of Medieval Trade, Business, and Industry; Definitions of Regions and Regional Identity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
310-267-5942; goldberg@history.ucla.edu - Nile Green: Ph.D., London University, 2002
World History; Muslims in Global History; Early Modern and Modern History of India/Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia
310-825-9498; green@history.ucla.edu - Sarah Abrevaya Stein: Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 1999
Jewish, Europe, Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History; History of Jewish Historiography
310-825-4153; sstein@history.ucla.edu - Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Ph.D, Delhi School of Economics, 1987
Medieval and Early Modern South Asian and Indian Ocean History; History of European Expansion; Comparative History of Early Modern Empires; World History
310-825-3376; subrahma@history.ucla.edu
Introduction
The Middle Eastern field offers instruction in the history of the region stretching from Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean in the west to Iran in the east, from Armenia and the Caucasus in the north to the Arabian peninsula in the south, North Africa, the Ottoman Balkans, and Islamic Iberia, from the period of Late Antiquity (fourth-seventh centuries) to the present day. Permanent faculty consists of Choon Hwee Koh (Ottoman Empire), Michael Morony (pre-modern Middle East), James L. Gelvin (modern Middle East) and Sebouh Aslanian (Armenian history, World history). More information about faculty can be obtained from their individual History Department websites.
Applications
In addition to fulfilling the requirements for admission to the History Department, students should have a background in at least one Middle Eastern language and provide evidence of previous coursework in Middle Eastern history. Students are expected to have an excellent command of spoken and written English.
Program Requirements
For information regarding the degree requirements for the History Department, please click here.
For more information regarding the program requirements, please visit: https://grad.ucla.edu/programs/social-sciences/history/
