Joel Kuipers

Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs. Professor Luiper’s research interests include sociolinguistics, ritual speech, ethnography of reading and writing, medical discourse, video ethnography and Southeast Asia. Web site: http://home.gwu.edu/~kuipers

Jeffrey C. Anderson

Professor of Art History and Department Chair. Professor Anderson is author of The New York Cruciform Lectionary and the forthcoming Byzantine Monastic Hours in the Twelfth Century, and co-author of The Barberini Psalter: Codex Vaticanus Barberinianus Graecus 372.

Lowell Abrams

Associate Professor of Mathematics. Professor Abrams’ research focuses on the intersection of algebra, topology and combinatorics. He is interested in a variety of applications and approaches involving Frobenius algebras, Hopf algebras, coalgebras, studies homological algebra, and algebraic combinatorics. Web site: http://home.gwu.edu/~labrams

Jeffrey Cohen

Associate Professor of English and Human Services. Professor Cohen's research interests include: cultural clash and hybridity; the social function of monsters; Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, English, French, Irish, Welsh, Jewish, and Latin cultures in their medieval overlap; methodological work on postcolonial theory; and theories and representations of time. Web site: http://www.gwu.edu/~humsci/facpages/jjcohen.htm

Nathan Brown

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Professor Brown specializes in comparative politics (with a special interest in constitutionalism and democratization) and Middle Eastern politics. He is author of Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt, The Rule of Law in the Arab World, Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government, and Palestinian Politics Since the Oslo Accords, as well as articles on law, democracy, and society in the Arab world.

Teresa Murphy

Associate Professor of American Studies. Professor Murphy is the author of Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Antebellum New England . She is currently completing a textbook on U.S. Women's History as well as working on a scholarly monograph analyzing the evolution of writing about women's history during the nineteenth century.

Peter Rollberg

Associate Professor of Slavic and Film Studies. Professor Rollberg specializes in 19th and 20th century Russian literature, as well as Russian and German cinema. He has taught at Duke University and the University of Leipzig before coming to GWU in 1991. Peter Rollberg has edited several volumes on questions of literature and philosophy, with focus on Dostoevsky and Russian nationalism. He has won both a Trachtenberg Teaching Award and a Bender Teaching Prize.

Diana Lipscomb

Professor of Biology. Professor Lipscomb’s research is on the systematics and evolution of unicellular eukaryotes, or protists. Currently, her work focuses on the Phylum Ciliophora. Ciliates are especially important trophic links in microbial food webs because they are the major consumers of bacteria, pico- and nano-photosynthetic plankton, diatoms, dinoflagellates, and amoebae, and they are eaten in turn by animals such as crustacea in the zooplankton and larval fish.

Allida Black

Professor of History. Professor Black teaches courses in US women's political history, the New Deal, and recent political history. She directs the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, a documentary history of Eleanor Roosevelt's human rights record. She is currently writing a political biography of Eleanor Roosevelt and the textbook Human Rights: Pages from History for Oxford University Press. Scribners will release The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I, The Human Rights Years, 1945- 1948 in August 2006.

Eric Cline

Associate Professor of Classics and Anthropology, as well as Chair of the Department of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures. Professor Cline is an historian and active field archaeologist specializing in international trade and diplomacy in the ancient world. He is the author of Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea and co-editor of Amenhotep III: Perspectives on his Reign, and The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium BC. He has participated in more than 17 seasons of excavation and survey in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States, and is currently a Senior Staff Archaeologist at the ongoing excavations of Megiddo in Israel. A former Fulbright scholar, His most recent book, The Battles of Armageddon, a military history of Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age, was published in September 2000 by the University of Michigan Press.

Marc Saperstein

Professor of Religion. Professor Saperstein is the Charles E. Smith Professor of Modern Jewish History, and director of the Judaic Studies Program. He is continuing a long-term project on the 550 manuscript sermons of Saul Levi Morteira, leading rabbi of the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam from 1619-1660, as evidence for the nature of that community and its rabbinic leadership. A newer project is an investigation of sermons delivered by American and British rabbis during the Nazi period (1933-1945) as evidence for first-level responses to the persecution and eventual mass murder of Jews. This is part of a broader study of Jewish preaching that corresponds to historical events of the 19th and 20th centuries.