Judaic Studies

Allan M. Arkush, Professor

BA, Cornell University; MA, Jewish Theological Seminary; PhD, Brandeis University

Affiliated: History, Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA)

Specialty: Modern Jewish history and thought

Paul-William Burch, Adjunct Lecturer

BA, University of Maryland; MA, University of Mississippi; MFA, George Mason University; PhD, °®¶¹´«Ã½ (SUNY)

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007-2008

Specialty: Holocaust literature; literature of witness and extremity; literature of the American war in Vietnam

C. Beth Burch, Professor

BA, Southwestern Oklahoma State University; MA, Oklahoma State University; PhD, Purdue University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006-2007

Specialty: American Jewish literature; American Jewish women writers; English grammar and composition

Dina Danon, Associate Professor

BA, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Stanford University

Affiliated: History, Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA); Religious Studies

Specialty: Sephardi Jewry; Modern Jewish History

Randy L. Friedman, Associate Professor

BA, Yale University; PhD, Brown University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2011-2012

Affiliated: Comparative Literature; Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA);Religious Studies

Specialty: Modern Jewish thought; American pragmatism; philosophy of religion; Husserlian phenomenology

Gina Glasman, Lecturer

BA, University of Cambridge; MA, Jewish Theological Seminary; MA, Columbia University

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2015-2016

Affiliated: Russian and East European Program (REEP)

Specialty: Yiddish Language; History; Holocaust

Douglas F. Jones, Instructor

BA, Hobart William Smith Colleges; MA, University of Chicago; PhD, University of Iowa

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Religious Studies

Specialty: Sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious history; religious sectarianism and radicalism

Jonathan Karp, Associate Professor

BA, Tufts University; MA, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; PhD, Columbia University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2019-2020

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA); Religious Studies

Specialty: Jewish economic and cultural history; Christian-Jewish relations

Michael J. Kelly, Lecturer

PhD, University of Leeds

Affiliated: Comparative Literature; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: History and literature; intellectual history; historical theory; late antiquity and early middle ages; Mediterranean

Lior Libman, Assistant Professor

BA, MA, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Affiliated: Comparative Literature; Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA)

Specialty: Hebrew and Israeli literature; Kibbutz and Socialist-Zionism; cultural and intellectual history; critical theory

Shay C. Rabineau, Associate Professor

BA, University of Oklahoma; PhD, Brandeis University

Affiliated: History; Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA)

Specialty: Israel/Palestine, Middle East walking and pilgrimage routes; Israeli environmental history; historical geography of the Middle East

Orly Shoer, Lecturer

BEd, Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2016-2017

Affiliated: Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR)

Hebatalla Taha, Assistant Professor

BA, George Washington University; MA, PhD, University of Oxford

Affiliated: Center for Israel Studies (CIS-ISR); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA)

Specialty: Intersection of violence and economy in the Middle East; Palestine/Israel, capitalism, colonialism; political economy, development, peace; nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, nuclear politics, nuclear technology