Department Faculty
![Guy Antebi](faculty/images/antebi-guy.jpg)
Expertise: Hebrew language, educational technology
![Darlene Brooks Hedstrom](faculty/images/hedstrom-darlene-brooks.jpg)
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.
![Jonathan Decter](faculty/images/decter-jonathan.jpg)
Expertise: Jews of the Islamic world, medieval Hebrew literature, medieval Jewish studies, Separdic studies, medieval Jewish thought
![Carl Sharif El-Tobgui](faculty/images/el-tobgui-carl-sharif.jpg)
Expertise: Islamic thought, theology, law and jurisprudence; Arabic language (Qur'anic, classical & modern) and Classical Arabic literature and poetry
![Yuval Evri](faculty/images/evri-yuval.jpg)
Expertise: Cultural and intellectual history of Palestine/Israel; Mizrahi/Sephardi modern history; Israeli society and culture; Hebrew-Arabic literary history
![ChaeRan Freeze](faculty/images/freeze-chaeran.jpg)
Expertise: Russian-Jewish historian with research interests in gender, family, sexuality, radical movements, and everyday life
![Sara Hascal](faculty/images/hascal-sara.jpg)
Expertise: Hebrew language, modern Israeli literature and culture, Israeli theater and drama pedagogy, creative reading and writing, theories and methodologies in second language acquisition
![Laura Jockusch](faculty/images/jockusch-laura.jpg)
Expertise: Modern Jewish history, Holocaust studies
![Alexander Kaye](faculty/images/kaye-alex2018.jpg)
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
![Lynn Kaye](faculty/images/kaye-lynn.jpg)
Expertise: Law, hermeneutics, narrative and thought in rabbinic literature, philosophies of time, legal theory, religions of late antique Mesopotamia and critical and literary theory
![Ellie Kellman](faculty/images/kellman-ellie.png)
Expertise: Yiddish language and literature, East European Jewish cultural history
![Hanan El-Sayed Khashaba](faculty/images/khashaba-hanan.jpg)
Expertise: Arabic language
![Reuven Kimelman](faculty/images/kimelman-reuven.jpg)
Expertise: Classic Rabbinic literature, Talmud, Midrash, liturgy, ethics and Jewish political tradition
![Jonathan Krasner](https://www.brandeis.edu/american-studies/images/faculty/krasner-jonathan.jpg)
Expertise: History of American Jewish education, teaching and learning of Jewish history and social studies, Jewish youth, and LGBT Jews
![Jon Levisohn](faculty/images/levisohn-jon.jpg)
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
![Yehudah Mirsky](faculty/images/mirsky-yehudah.jpg)
Expertise: Jewish thought, Jewish law and ethics, Israeli religion and culture and Zionist intellectual history, political thought and human rights
![Madadh Richey](faculty/images/richey-madadh.jpg)
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
![Jonathan Sarna](faculty/images/sarna-jonathan.jpg)
Expertise: American Jewish history, religion and life
![mariam sheibani](mariam-sheibani-headshot.jpg)
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.
![Eugene Sheppard](faculty/images/sheppard-eugene.jpg)
Expertise: Modern Jewish history and thought
![Esther Shorr](faculty/images/shorr-esther.jpg)
Expertise: Hebrew language
![Ilana Szobel](faculty/images/szobel-ilana.jpg)
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
![Ziva Hassenfeld](faculty/images/hassenfeld-ziva.jpg)
Expertise: Reading comprehension, biblical hermeneutics, both contemporary and rabbinic, as well as literary theory and criticism
![Lisa Joffe](faculty/images/joffe-lisa-fishbayn.jpg)
Expertise: Philosophy of multiculturalism, women’s rights under Jewish and secular family law, social movements in support of Agunot, children's rights
![David Katz](faculty/images/katz-david.jpg)
Expertise: The history of ideas in the long early modern period (1500-1900), early modern English history, early modern European religious history
![Sharon Pucker Rivo](faculty/images/pucker-rivo-sharon.jpg)
Expertise: Jewish and Holocaust film, archivist and producer
![Amy Singer](faculty/images/singer-amy.jpg)
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.
![Aaron Spevack](faculty/images/spevack-aaron.jpg)
Expertise: Islamic intellectual history (law, theology, philosophy, Sufism), Islam and modernity, classical Islamic curricula and education, Muslim musical practices
![Shayna Weiss](faculty/images/weiss-shayna.jpg)
Expertise: Israeli history, gender, Orthodox Jews, politics of popular culture, television and film, nationalism, politics
Faculty Emeriti (Retired)
![Tzvi Abusch](faculty/images/abush-tzvi.jpg)
Expertise: Languages and cultures of ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern religions, magic, literature and thought, Hebrew Bible
![Bernadette Brooten](faculty/images/brooten-bernadette.jpg)
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
![Sharon Feiman-Nemser](faculty/images/feiman-nemser-sharon.jpg)
Expertise: Jewish education, curriculum and pedagogy in teacher education, learning to teach, mentoring and new teacher induction, professional development of teachers
![Sylvia Fishman](faculty/images/fishman-sylvia.jpg)
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
![Jehuda Reinharz](faculty/images/reinharz-jehuda.jpg)
Expertise: Modern Jewish history
![Ellen Smith](faculty/images/smith-ellen.jpg)
Expertise: Jewish leadership, Jewish visual and material culture, museum studies
![Ilan Troen](../troen-cropped.jpg)
Expertise: American, Jewish, and Israeli history
![David Wright](faculty/images/wright-david.jpg)
Expertise: Hebrew Bible, biblical and Near Eastern ritual, law and history, Northwest Semitic languages and linguistics