Faculty Advisory Committee
Eugene R. Sheppard, Ph.D is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought, Associate Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, and is currently serving as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. He received his Ph.D. at UCLA in the department of History in 2001. In Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (Brandeis University Press 2006), he critically assesses the development of this controversial and enigmatic German-Jewish refugee's political philosophy and its legacy. Professor Sheppard is co-editing a volume on Simon Rawidowicz with David N. Myers; he and Samuel Moyn (Columbia University) are managing editors of a forthcoming series on Brandeis University Press/UPNE entitled Readings in Modern Jewish Thought. He is co-editor of the AJS Review book reviews. He is a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy.
Ilana Szobel, Ph. D, Assistant Professor on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature. Ms. Szobel’s dissertation examines the work of Dahlia Ravikovich (1936-2005), one of the most significant cultural figures in Israeli society since the 1967 war. In her teaching, Ms. Szobel presents the challenges posed by feminism, war and peace, family structure, economic and cultural dislocation as compelling entry points for the study of Israeli society and culture.