Program of Jewish Studies

FACULTY AND SPECIALIZATIONS

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Deborah Starr

Director, Program of Jewish Studies

Associate Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Modern Arabic & Hebrew literature; critical theory; Middle Eastern film

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Leslie Adelson

Professor (German Studies)

German-Jewish Literature and Culture

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Glenn Altschuler

Thomas & Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies (American Studies)

Dean, School of Continuing Education

American culture and politics
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Ross Brann

Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies

Alice H. Cook House professor and dean
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Vicki Caron

Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies (History)
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Holly Case

Associate Professor (History)

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Molly Diesing

Associate Professor (Linguistics)

Yiddish Linguistics
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Ziad Fahmy

Assistant Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Modern Middle East history

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Kim Haines-Eitzen

Chair, Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Varieties of early Christianity and early Judaism; Greco-Roman religions; gender studies

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Roald Hoffman

Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters (Chemistry and Chem Bio)
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Peter Uwe Hohendahl

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German and Comparative Literature (German Studies)

Director of Institute for German Cultural Studies

Eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature; intellectual history; literary and social theory; comparative literature.

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Paul Hyams

Professor (History)

Medieval Jewish History

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Dominick LaCapra

B. & E.M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies (Society for Humanities)

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Marilyn Migiel

Professor (Romance Studies)

Italian literature

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Chris Monroe

Senior Lecturer and Assistant Curator (Near Eastern Studies)

Near Eastern Mediterranean Studies; Nautical Archaeology

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Lauren Monroe

Assistant Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Hebrew Bible Studies

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David I. Owen

Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (Near Eastern Studies)

Ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology; Assyriology; Biblical history and archaeology; maritime history and archaeology
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Richard Polenberg

G. Smith Professor of American History (History)

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David S. Powers

Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Director of Graduate Studies (Near Eastern Studies)

Islamic history and law

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Eric Rebillard

Professor (Classics)

Jews in the Roman Empire

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Nava Scharf

Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Hebrew Language Program (Near Eastern Studies)

Hebrew language

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 Dan Schwarz

Frederic J. Whiton Professor and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (English)

Holocaust Studies

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Gavriel Shapiro

Professor (Russian Literature)

Russian-Jewish literature

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Shalom Shoer

Senior Lecturer (Near Eastern Studies)

Hebrew language

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Patrick Stevens

Librarian

Judaica Bibliography

Shawkat M. Toorawa

Associate Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Arabic literature; Islamic studies

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Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Faculty

Alex Kleinerman

Postdoctoral Associate (Near Eastern Studies)

Assyriology

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Anna Glazova

Mellon Fellow (German Studies)

German studies