Jewish Studies Program

FACULTY AND SPECIALIZATIONS

Ross Brann

Paul and Berthe Hendrix Director of Jewish Studies

Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies (Near Eastern Studies)

Judeo-Arabic Studies & Religion and Literature

Leslie Adelson

Professor (German Studies)

German-Jewish literature and culture

David Bathrick

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor, Holocaust film studies

Professor Emeritus

Vicki Caron

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

Modern European Jewish history

Molly Diesing

Professor (Linguistics)

Yiddish linguistics

Ziad Fahmy

Assistant Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Modern Middle East History

Kim Haines-Eitzen

Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Chair (Near Eastern Studies)

Director of the Religious Studies Program

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

Roald Hoffman

Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letter (Chemistry)

Professor Emeritus

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

Paul Hyams

Professor (History)

Medieval Jewish history

Lori Khatchadourian

Assistant Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Archaeology

Dominick LaCapra

B. & E.M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies (History and Comparative Literature)

Modern European intellectual and cultural history, including critical theory, trauma studies, and fascism

Marilyn Migiel

Professor (Romance Studies)

Italian literature

Chris Monroe

Senior Lecturer (Near Eastern Studies)

Near Eastern Mediterranean studies; Nautical archaeology

Lauren Monroe

Associate Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Director of Undergraduate Studies (Near Eastern Studies)

Hebrew Bible studies

Richard Polenberg

G. Smith Professor of American History (History)

Modern American political and social history 1930-present

David S. Powers

Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Director of Graduate Studies (Near Eastern Studies)

Islamic history and law

Eric Rebillard

Professor (Classics and History)

Jews in the Roman Empire

Nava Scharf

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

Hebrew language

Dan Schwarz

Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow

Holocaust studies; Modernism; Twentieth Century Novel; Literary Theory

Gavriel Shapiro

Professor (Comparative and Russian Literature)

Russian-Jewish literature

Shalom Shoer

Senior Lecturer (Near Eastern Studies)

Hebrew language

Deborah Starr

Associate Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

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

Patrick Stevens

Librarian

Judaica bibliography

Jonathan Tenney

Assistant Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Ancient Near Eastern studies

Shawkat M. Toorawa

Associate Professor (Near Eastern Studies)

Arabic literature; Islamic studies

Samantha Zacher

Associate Professor (English)

Old and Middle English literature; manuscript studies; rhetoric; patristic and medieval biblical exegesis, history of the English language

Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Faculty

Alexandra Kleinerman

Postdoctoral Associate (Near Eastern Studies)

Assyriology

Anna Glazova

Mellon Fellow (German Studies)

German studies

Barbara Johnson

South Asian Studies