Faculty
Robert Abzug
He is currently finishing a biography of Rollo May, the influential American
psychologist, that focuses on the intersection of religion and psychology in
American culture. He is in the beginning stages of two projects. The first is a
reassessment of the impact of Jewish émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s on American
culture. The second is a photographic project on remaining signs of Texas Jewish
life from the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Aaron Bar-Adon
Sociolinguistics and language acquisition; Hebrew and Arabic language, literature, and linguistics
Miriam Bodian
Sephardic Jews in Europe,the history of the Inquisition and the Reformation, informing the broader history of late Medieval and early modern Europe. Her most recent research has begun also to broach the Jewish presence in the Atlantic world.Bodian’s current project, a detailed study of another Judaizer/martyr, Isaac de Castro Tartas
Susan Boettcher
Lutheran culture in the early confessional period (1546-1618) -- particularly sermons, theological controversies, pastoral care, confessional identity development, and university culture; Jewish-Christian relations
Pascale Bos
Dutch postwar literature and culture in comparative perspective, specialty area Jewish literature and literature about WW II (Memory of WW II), German-Jewish literature and history, History and Literature of the Holocaust, Holocaust and Gender, Holocaust and (trans-generational) trauma
David Crew
His current research and teaching interests include the history of popular culture and consumerism in twentieth-century Germany and Europe, the history and politics of memory, and the visual history of Germany in the twentieth century, with a specific focus upon photographic representations.
David J. Eaton
Water; natural resources; agriculture; health; urban services; water management in the Jordan River Basin; public administration, management, and dispute resolution
Karen Grumberg
Contemporary Hebrew literature and comparative Jewish literatures (Hebrew, French, English)
John Hoberman
European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race.
Robert King
Historical Linguistics; Yiddish; Languages of India.
Harold A. Liebowitz
Archaeology and art history of the land of Israel in the Biblical and Greco-Roman periods; art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East with particular emphasis on the Late Bronze to Mamluk Periods in Israel, Jordan, and Syria; daily life in Ancient Israel; material culture and literature of the period of the Mishnah and Talmud; medieval Jewish illuminated manuscripts from Spain, and Old Testament narrative painting from the Byzantine period until the Renaissance
Naomi Lindstrom
Latin American Narrative, Latin American Jewish Studies
Abraham Marcus
Arab and Ottoman history; Islamic history; social history of the Middle East; music cultures of the Middle East
Joan Neuberger
Professor Neuberger studies modern Russian culture in social and political context
Mary C. Neuburger
Professor Neuburger's focus is on modern southeastern Europe, her primary interests include ethnic conflict, nationalism, material culture, and gender
Martha Newman
Medieval Christian monasticism; monastic miracle collections and monastic attitudes toward women and the poor
Esther L. Raizen
Modern and classical Hebrew language, linguistics and literature; Hebrew as a foreign language; Jewish history and culture; Computer-assisted instruction and computational linguistics; Academic advising and student development
Yaron Shemer
Israel Studies, Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Israeli/Middle Eastern Cinema, Hebrew, and Filmmaking
L. Michael White
Religions of the Roman Empire, focusing heavily on the social context of Jews and Christians in the Graeco-Roman period by blending historical, literary, and sociological research, with traditional biblical studies and archaological field work.
Stacy Wolf
Performances of gender and sexuality in the American Broadway musical
Seth L. Wolitz
French, Jewish studies, Yiddish, and Afro-Antillian literature
Monica Yaniv
Modern Hebrew language, linguistics, Hebrew as a foreign language, syntax and spoken Hebrew.
Abraham Zilkha
Hebrew language and linguistics; modern Israel
