As a budding cultural anthropologist, I would like to know for future reference. Also I have always had an interest in the Middle East. Again, I’d prefer the Big 10 or Pac-12.
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Do you have a particular interest within the Middle East? Each department tends to specialize in certain areas. Additionally, the number of good Arabic and Hebrew programs is much larger than the number of good Turkish, Persian, Armenian, etc. programs.
To pick two examples, Indiana U offers classes in languages like Kazakh and Pashto that are offered almost nowhere else, and UCLA boasts that it is the only American university to offer all stages of Persian.
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I’m interested in the languages and politics of the Middle East. Also the history.
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Pac 12 – Berkeley, UCLA, Arizona, Washington
Big 10 – Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio State, Maryland
The other major programs are NYU, UT Austin, Georgetown, Chicago, Brandeis, and several Ivies (Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, et al).
As I noted earlier, each of these will have different areas of strength – Arabic, Islamic studies, Maghreb studies, Iranian studies, Jewish studies, Turkish, ancient Middle Eastern studies, comparative Semitics, etc.
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