Jay Berkovitz, Professor and Chair of Department, B.A., Brandeis, 1973; M.A., 1977; Ph.D., 1983.

Aviva Ben-Ur, Associate Professor, B.A., Wellesley, 1990; M.A., Columbia, 1992;
M.Phil., 1994; Ph.D., Brandeis, 1998.

Tayeb El-Hibri, Professor, B.A., Stanford, 1986; M.A., Columbia, 1988; M.Phil., 1989; Ph.D., 1993.

Olga Gershenson, Professor, B.A., Ural State University, 1990; M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2003.

David Mednicoff, Director, Middle Eastern Studies, A.B., Princeton, 1982; A.M., Harvard, 1988; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1989; Ph.D., Harvard, 2007. 

Ralph Melnick, Lecturer, B.A., New York, 1968; M.S.L.S., Columbia, 1970; M.A., M.Phil., Columbia/Union Theological Seminary, 1974, 1975; Ph.D., Reconstructionist Rabbinical College/Temple University, 1968-1969; Ph.D., Columbia/Union Theological Seminary, 1977.

Robert A. Rothstein, Professor, S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; A.M., Harvard, 1961; Ph.D., 1967.

Susan Shapiro, Associate Professor, B.A., Washington, 1973; Ph.D., Chicago, 1983.

Malissa Taylor, Assistant Professor, A.B., Princeton, 1997; M.A., New York University, 2003; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2011. 

Ofir Zussman, Lecturer, B.A., Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, 1998; M.A., Cambridge, 2000; Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2014.