Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Faculty Committee

The four-member HBI Faculty Committee advises HBI on how to deepen our relationships with the degree-granting programs and departments at Brandeis University by involving their faculty and students in our projects and programs. The HBI directors, in cooperation with the Provost, select the faculty members.

Current Members

Gannit Ankori
Professor of Art History and Theory; Chair in Israeli Art; Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Board of Director on behalf of Brandeis at the Graduate Consortium of Women's Studies (MIT)
781-736-7254 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 312

Expertise:Israeli and Palestinian Art; Frida Kahlo; Gender and Art; Curatorial theory and practice

Jon Levisohn
Jon Levisohn
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Educational Thought
781-736-2941 A. Shapiro Academic Complex 125
Office Hours: On leave fall 2019

Expertise: Philosophy of education, with particular interest in purposes, processes, and outcomes of Jewish education in all of its various settings, scholarship of teaching classical Jewish texts

Ellen Smith
Ellen Smith
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership
781-736-2998 Lown 204
Office Hours: Sabbatical 2019-20

Expertise: Jewish leadership, Jewish visual and material culture, museum studies

ChaeRan Freeze
ChaeRan Freeze
Frances and Max Elkan Chair in Modern Jewish History
781-736-2987 Lown 312
Office Hours: On leave fall 2019

Expertise: Russian-Jewish historian with research interests in gender, family, sexuality, radical movements, and everyday life