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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

Jessica Lang, Co-Director, Jewish Studies Center

Professor; early American fiction; Jewish American literature; women’s fiction and composition

 

Andrew Sloin

Andrew Sloin, Co-Director, Jewish Studies Center

Associate Professor; Russian; East European; Soviet and Jewish history

 

Ruth Adler

Ruth Adler, Modern Languages

Professor; Hebrew and Comp. Lit.; Hebrew Literature; Jewish-American and Yiddish Literature; Sociopsychological Approaches to Literature; Pedagogy

 

Esther AllenEsther Allen, Modern Languages

Professor; Literary Translation; Translation Studies; Ecolinguistics; 19th and 20th-century Latin American Literature; 19th and 20th-century French Literature

 

Roslyn Bernstein

Roslyn Bernstein, Journalism

Professor Emeritus; Urban reporting; arts; culture; feature writing. Former Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program

 

Debra CaplanDebra 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

Vincent DiGirolamo, History

Associate Professor; 19th and 20th century history; immigration; labor; New York City; childhood

 

Linda Weisser Friedman

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

Kenneth J. Guest, Anthropology

Professor; globalization, cross-cultural interaction; immigration; religion; New York City

 

Gail Levin

Gail Levin, Fine and Performing Arts

Professor; 20th and 21st century art history; American Studies; and Women Studies

 

Meir Clubetski

Meir Lubetski, Modern Languages

Professor; Hebrew & Comp. Lit.; Ancient Near East Languages and Literature; The Bible World; Past Biblical and Rabbinic Literature

 

Katherine Pence

Katherine Pence, History

Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department;
German and Women’s History

 

Michael Staub

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

Elizabeth Wollman, Music

Associate Professor; Music History; Ethnomusicology; Popular Music; Fine and Performing Arts


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