Faculty
Expertise: Archaeology and history of ancient and late antique Christianity. Material culture and religions of eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Monasticism in Eastern Mediterranean World.
Expertise: Jews of the Islamic world, medieval Hebrew literature, medieval Jewish studies, Separdic studies, medieval Jewish thought
Expertise: Islamic thought, theology, law and jurisprudence; Arabic language (Qur'anic, classical, and modern); and Classical Arabic literature and poetry
Expertise: Cultural and intellectual history of Palestine/Israel; Mizrahi/Sephardi modern history; Israeli society and culture; Hebrew-Arabic literary history
Expertise: Russian-Jewish historian with research interests in gender, family, sexuality, radical movements, and everyday life
Expertise: Hebrew language, modern Israeli literature and culture, Israeli theater and drama pedagogy, creative reading and writing, theories and methodologies in second language acquisition
Expertise: Modern Jewish history, Holocaust studies
Expertise: Ancient, medieval and modern Jewish history and European intellectual history, legal and political thought of religious Zionists in the 20th century, relationship between law, religion and politics in Mandate Palestine and Israel
Expertise: Law, hermeneutics, narrative and thought in rabbinic literature, philosophies of time, legal theory, religions of late antique Mesopotamia and critical and literary theory
Expertise: Yiddish language and literature, East European Jewish cultural history
Expertise: Arabic language
Expertise: Classic Rabbinic literature, Talmud, Midrash, liturgy, ethics and Jewish political tradition
Expertise: History of American Jewish education, teaching and learning of Jewish history and social studies, Jewish youth, and LGBT Jews
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
Expertise: Jewish thought, Jewish law and ethics, Israeli religion and culture and Zionist intellectual history, political thought and human rights
Expertise: Hebrew Bible, religion, literature, and history of the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant, Northwest Semitic languages and texts (Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic), critical theory and the ancient Middle East
Expertise: American Jewish history, religion and life
Expertise: Islamic thought; Islamic law in theory and practice; Islamic history (late antique and medieval); Ethics and Sufism; Contemporary Muslim thought and practice; Gender and sexuality in Muslim societies.
Expertise: Modern Jewish history and thought
Expertise: Israeli society and culture in modern Hebrew literature as it relates to feminism, war and peace, the Holocaust, family structure, economic and cultural dislocation
Affiliated
Expertise: Early modern Jewish cultural history, women and gender, Jewish communal memory, Jews in Czech lands and the Habsburg monarchy
Expertise: Reading comprehension, biblical hermeneutics, both contemporary and rabbinic, as well as literary theory and criticism
Expertise: Philosophy of multiculturalism, women’s rights under Jewish and secular family law, social movements in support of Agunot, children's rights
Expertise: The history of ideas in the long early modern period (1500-1900), early modern English history, early modern European religious history
Expertise: Jewish-American literature, film, and television; gender and Jewish representation; Jewish comedy
Expertise: Jewish and Holocaust film, archivist and producer
Expertise: Ottoman history; charity and poverty in Islamic Societies; agrarian relations in Ottoman Palestine; city of Edirne, exploring how the city participated in the formation of Ottoman state and society in the first half of the 15th century.
Expertise: Islamic intellectual history (law, theology, philosophy, Sufism), Islam and modernity, classical Islamic curricula and education, Muslim musical practices
Expertise: Israeli history, gender, Orthodox Jews, politics of popular culture, television and film, nationalism, politics
Faculty Emeriti (Retired)
Expertise: Languages and cultures of ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern religions, magic, literature and thought, Hebrew Bible
Expertise: Early Christian literature and history, women and religion, history of sexuality and history of slavery, Christian studies, New Testament, Post-Biblical Judaism, Feminist Sexual Ethics
Expertise: Jewish education, curriculum and pedagogy in teacher education, learning to teach, mentoring and new teacher induction, professional development of teachers
Expertise: Contemporary Jewry, American Jewish sociology, Jewish literature, film and popular culture; changing construction of Jews gender roles and Jewish families
Expertise: Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern history; history of the Jewish people in Muslim lands
Expertise: Polish-Jewish history, Holocaust studies, East European Jewish history
Expertise: Medieval and early modern Jewish history, Jews of Venice, institution of the ghetto
Expertise: Modern Jewish history
Expertise: Jewish leadership, Jewish visual and material culture, museum studies
Expertise: American, Jewish, and Israeli history
Expertise: Hebrew Bible, biblical and Near Eastern ritual, law and history, Northwest Semitic languages and linguistics