Faculty
Program Faculty
![david katz](https://www.brandeis.edu/history/images/faculty/katz-david.jpg)
David Katz
Professor of History, Department of History
Director and Undergraduate Advising Head, History of Ideas Program
![Joel Christensen](images/faculty/christensen-joel.jpg)
Joel Christensen
Professor of Classical Studies
![Stephen Dowden](images/dowden-stephen.png)
Stephen Dowden
Professor of German Languages and Literature
![Matthew Fraleigh](images/fraleigh-matthew2.png)
Matthew Fraleigh
Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture
![Caren Irr](images/faculty/irr-caren.jpg)
![Jeffrey A. Lenowitz](images/faculty/lenowitz-jeffrey.jpg)
Jeffrey A. Lenowitz
Meyer and W. Walter Jaffe Associate Professor of Politics
![Robin Feuer Miller](images/faculty/miller-robin.jpg)
Robin Feuer Miller
Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities
Expertise: The novel in Russia and Europe of the 19th century, the short story in Russia, the literature of childhood and children's literature
![kathleen moran](images/faculty/moran-kate.jpg)
Kathleen Moran
Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy
![John Plotz](images/faculty/plotz-john.jpg)
![david powelstocik](images/faculty/powelstock-david.jpg)
David Powelstock
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature
![chandler rosenberger](images/faculty/rosenberger-chandler.jpg)
Chandler Rosenberger
Associate Professor of International and Global Studies and Sociology
![umrao sethi, assistant professor](https://www.brandeis.edu/philosophy/images/faculty-staff/sethi-umrao.jpg)
Umrao Sethi
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Philosophy of mind, metaphysics, early modern philosophy, metaphysics of perceptual experience, and the nature of sensible qualities
![eugene sheppard](images/faculty/sheppard-eugene.jpg)
Eugene Sheppard
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought
![Bernard Yack](images/faculty/yack-bernard.jpg)
Bernard Yack
Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy