Associated Faculty
Faculty affiliated with Jewish Studies come from a range of disciplines, including Anthropology, English, Fine and Performing Arts, History, Journalism, Modern Languages, and Sociology. The conversations initiated across these fields and between faculty, students of all backgrounds, and community members, bring to bear new perspectives on traditional areas of study and reflection.
Jessica Lang, Co-Director, Jewish Studies Center
Professor; early American fiction; Jewish American literature; women’s fiction and composition
Andrew Sloin, Co-Director, Jewish Studies Center
Associate Professor; Russian; East European; Soviet and Jewish history
Ruth Adler, Modern Languages
Professor; Hebrew and Comp. Lit.; Hebrew Literature; Jewish-American and Yiddish Literature; Sociopsychological Approaches to Literature; Pedagogy
Esther Allen, Modern Languages
Professor; Literary Translation; Translation Studies; Ecolinguistics; 19th and 20th-century Latin American Literature; 19th and 20th-century French Literature
Roslyn Bernstein, Journalism
Professor Emeritus; Urban reporting; arts; culture; feature writing. Former Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program
Debra Caplan, Theater
Associate Professor; world theater; Yiddish theater and drama; theatrical travel and Jewish performance culture. Prof. Caplan teaches JWS 3060: Immigration in Theater and Film and regularly mentors student theater and independent study projects related to Yiddish and Jewish studies
Vincent DiGirolamo, History
Associate Professor; 19th and 20th century history; immigration; labor; New York City; childhood
Linda Weiser Friedman, Zicklin School of Business, Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics
Professor; Humor Studies; Social Media; Corporate Social Responsibility; Programming Languages; Quantitive Research Methods
Kenneth J. Guest, Anthropology
Professor; globalization, cross-cultural interaction; immigration; religion; New York City
Gail Levin, Fine and Performing Arts
Professor; 20th and 21st century art history; American Studies; and Women Studies
Meir Lubetski, Modern Languages
Professor; Hebrew & Comp. Lit.; Ancient Near East Languages and Literature; The Bible World; Past Biblical and Rabbinic Literature
Katherine Pence, History
Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department;
German and Women’s History
Michael E. Staub, English
Professor; modern and contemporary literature; American cultural and intellectual history; documentary and nonfiction writing; American ethnic and minority literature; Jewish and Holocaust studies
Elizabeth Wollman, Music
Associate Professor; Music History; Ethnomusicology; Popular Music; Fine and Performing Arts