Geoffrey Khan#
| Membership Number: | 3927 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/directory/khangeoffrey |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge
- 2002 - 2012 Professor of Semitic Philology, University of Cambridge
- 1999 - 2002 Reader in Semitic Philology, University of Cambridge
- 1993 - 1999 Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, University of Cambridge
- 1990 - 1991 Fellow, Ibstitute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem
- 1987 - 1993 Research Associate, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research group, Cambridge University Library
- 1983 - 1997 Research Assistant, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research group, Cambridge University Library
Fields of Scholarship
- Semitic linguistics
- Philology
- Hebrew
- Neo-Aramaic
- Arabic
- Karaite tradition
- Dialectology
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Honorary Fellow of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
- 2004 Lidzbarski Gold Medal for Semitic philology of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
- 1998 Fellow of the British Academy
