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Academic Staff

Staff members at the University whose research are fully or partly within Middle Eastern studies, with countries of main interest.

Department of Archaeology, History, Culture Studies and Religion @ahkr
Øisteins gt. 3, N-5007 Bergen [Fax: 5558 9654]

Archaeology

History Culture Studies
  • Haci Akman, Dr., Assoc. Professor (Turkey) (tel. 5558 2232)
History of Religions

Department of Comparative Politics @ isp
Christies gt. 15, N-5007 Bergen [Fax: 5558 2175]

  • Liv Tønnessen, Research fellow (Lebanon, Syria, Sudan) (tel. 5557 4376)
Department of Foreign Languages @if
Sydnesplass 7, N-5007 Bergen [Fax: 5558 4260].

Arabic

Department of Geography @geog
Fosswinckelsgt 6, N-5007 Bergen [Fax: 55 58 30 99]
Faculty of Law @jur
Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, N-5010 Bergen [Fax: 5558 9510]
Department of Linguistic, Literary and esthetic studies @lle
Sydnesplass 7, N-5007 Bergen [Fax: 5558 9660] Classical studies

Department of Music - The Grieg Academy @grieg
Lars Hilles gt. 3, N-5015 Bergen [Fax: 5558 6960]

Department of Social Anthropology @sosantr
Fosswinckelsgt. 6, N-5007 Bergen [Fax: 5558 9260]
Department of Sociology @sos
Fosswinckelsgt. 6, N-5007 Bergen [Fax: 5558 9199]

Bergen Museum @bmu
Harald Hårfagresg. 1, N-5007 Bergen [Fax: 5558 9364]

  • Else J. Kleppe, Dr., Assoc. Professor (Sudan, East Africa) (tel. 5558 3127)
Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK) @skok
Allégt. 34, N-5015 Bergen [Fax 5558 9664].
Unifob Global (Centre for Development Studies) @global
Nygårdsgt. 5, N-5015 Bergen. Office 5558 9309 [Fax 5558 9892]. Professor Leif Manger (tel. 5558 9267) is director of Unifob Global.
Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (SMI) @smi
Nygårdsgt. 5, N-5015 Bergen. Office 5558 2647 [Fax 5558 9891]. Professor Bjørkelo, is also attached to the History department.

Translation of titles used:

  • Associate Professor: Førsteamanuensis
  • Professor seconded: Professor II (20 pct. position at Bergen)
  • Research associate: Forsker
  • Research fellow: Forskingsstipendiat (often Ph.D. students with a 3-4 year salaried contract and some teaching obligations).
    NFR: Norwegian Research Council, a major funding body.

    Persons with marked (underline) names can be reached by e-mail. Bergen e-mail addresses are standardized in this way: FirstName.LastName@Department.uib.no. The @-signature of each department is indicated beside its name above. Scandinavian characters are changed in the pattern æ > a; ø > o; å > a. Thus, Joseph Norment Bell at Foreign Languages (@if) is: joseph.bell@if.uib.no and Anders Bjørkelo at anders.bjorkelo@smi.uib.no.


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    Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (SMI)
    Phone + 47 55 58 26 47, fax + 47 55 58 98 91, e-mail: post@smi.uib.no
    Postal address: SMI, University of Bergen. PO Box 7800 Bergen, Norway
    Visiting address: SMI, 5th floor , Stein Rokkans Hus, Nygårdsgaten 5, 5015 Bergen