Faculty

Samer Abboud

Ph.D., University of Exeter
Middle East Politics, International Political Economy, Politics of the Global South

Karla G. Bohmbach

Ph.D., Duke University
Biblical Studies, Women and Religion, Ancient History

David Imhoof

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Modern German History, the Holocaust, European Cultural History

Shari Jacobson

Ph.D., Stanford University
Anthropology of Religion, Jewish Diaspora, Latin America

Rabbi Nina Mandel

M. H. L., Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, M.A., University of Pennsylvania
Jewish and Israeli Cinema, Tanakh, Women in Judaism

Rabbi Kate Palley

M. H. L., Jewish Theological Sekminary of America
Classical Jewish Texts, Jewish Ethics, Midrash

W. Douglas Powers

Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, M.F.A., Ohio University
Theatre Arts, Religious Drama, Yiddish Theatre, American Indian Drama

Laurence Roth

Director of Jewish Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
American literature and popular culture, American-Jewish literature, Jewish cultural studies, literary theory

Lissa Skitolsky

Ph.D., Emory University
Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Holocaust Studies