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Faculty
Core Faculty
Michael S. Berger
Director of Undergraduate Studies // Rabbinic Judaism, Jewish law and ethics
Department of Religion
Michael J. Broyde
Law and religion, Jewish law and ethics, and comparative religious law
School of Law
William K. Gilders
Cultural history, Hebrew Bible, ritual in ancient Israel and its historical context, sexuality and gender (especially LGBTQ cultures)
Department of Religion
Hazel Gold
19th-21st century Spanish Peninsular literature & cultures, narrative theory, Ladino language, Sephardic and Latin American Jewish studies
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Eric L. Goldstein
American Jewish history, modern Jewish history
Department of History and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Pazit Kahlon Shelnutt
Lecturer and Language Coordinator in Hebrew
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
Jeffrey Lesser
History of Latin America, especially Brazil; ethnic and diaspora studies
Department of History
Geoffrey Levin
Director of Undergraduate Engagement // Israel/Palestine, diplomatic history, U.S. foreign policy, international relations
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Holocaust studies and Holocaust denial
Department of Religion
Tamar Menashe
Sociolegal, cultural, gender, and religious histories; interfaith relations; minority-state relations; civil & religious law
Department of History and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Craig Perry
History of the Jews in the Islamic World, medieval Middle East, history of slavery
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Kate Rosenblatt
American Judaism, American Religion, Politics and Religion
Department of Religion and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Ellie R. Schainker
Russian Jewish history, modern Jewish history, imperial Russian history, history of religious conversions
Department of History and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Don Seeman
Anthropology of religion, Jewish thought, medical anthropology, Jewish mysticism, Hasidism, phenomenology of religion
Department of Religion and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Miriam Udel
Yiddish language, literature, and culture
Department of German Studies and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Jacob L. Wright
History and archaeology of ancient Israel, Biblical interpretation, Northwest Semitic languages
Candler School of Theology
Ofra Yeglin
Modernist Hebrew poetry, modernism, poetics, Holocaust literature, Israeli culture
Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies
Visiting Faculty
Alicja Podbielska
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Religion and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Frank Voigt
DAAD Visiting Lecturer
German Studies and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies