Lafayette College, a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S., welcomes 11 new professors this fall, including Rachel Goshgarian, the College said on its website.

Goshgarian who earned her Ph.D. in history and Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University, joins the faculty as an assistant professor of history. Goshgarian comes to Lafayette from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, where she was a senior fellow in the university’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations. Her areas of expertise include Armenian and Anatolian culture, on which she has published and presented extensively. Goshgarian is also proficient in a number of languages needed for researching old texts, including Arabic, Armenian, and Turkish.

She is currently at work on Ahis. Futuwwa and the City: Urban Culture and Inter-Faith Interaction in Late Medieval Anatolia.