Faculty and Staff
Leadership and Staff
Victor Vitkin, Executive Director, Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry
Daniel Terris, Vice President for Global Affairs and Director, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life
Jonathan Sarna, Chairman of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program and Professor of American Jewish History
Marci Borenstein, Director of the Office of High School Programs
Yana Drozdovski, Program Manager
Masha Sherman, Program Administrator
Faculty Advisory Committee
The Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry (BGI) is comprised of faculty members whose areas of expertise and interest contribute to the overall vision and mission of the institute.
Irina Dubinina, Director of the Russian Language Program and Lecturer in Russian in the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature
Sylvia Fishman, Professor of Contemporary Jewry and American Jewish Sociology in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Sylvia Fuks Fried, Director of Publications, Schusterman Center. ExecutiveDirector, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry and Associate Editor of the Tauber Series with Brandeis University Press/UPNE.
Derek Isaacowitz, Associate Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Edward Kaplan, Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Religious Studies and Romance Studies
Janna Kaplan, Lecturer in Psychology and Senior Research Associate at the Graybiel Lab
Dmitry Kleinbock, Professor and Graduate Advising Head, Department of Mathematics
Antony Polonsky, Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Departments of History and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Jonathan Sarna, Professor of American Jewish History and Director of its Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program
Sabine von Mering, Associate Professor of German and Women's and Gender Studies; Director of the Center for German and European Studies