Research Interests
- Zionism
- Israeli History
- Modern Jewish Thought
Research Interests
- Reviving Bernard Malamud's Reputation
- American Jewish Women Writers
- Jewish American Short Fiction
- Grammar in Writing Studies
Research Interests
- Holocaust
- Post-Holocaust Literature
Research Interests
- Sephardi Jewry
- Modern Jewish History
Research Interests
- Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
Research Interests
- Yiddish Language
- History
- Holocaust
Douglas F. Jones
Instructor/ Director of Religious Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- European Reformation, 16th and 17th Century England, Religious Dissent, Methods in the Study of Religion
- Reception of foundational or orthodox religious texts by supposedly radical Christian groups
- Sixteenth-century debates over Protestant biblical interpretation
- New religious movements in twentieth-century America
Jonathan Karp
Associate Professor; Associate Professor/ Undergraduate Director of Judaic Studies
History; Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Jewish Economic and Cultural History
- Christian-Jewish Relations
Research Interests
- The social and religious history of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
- "Fall" of the Roman Empire
- The relationship between history, law and literature
- Philosophy of history / Historical Theory
Lior Libman
Associate Professor of Israel Studies/ Director of the Center for Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Modern Hebrew Literature
- Israeli Literature
- Kibbutz and Socialist-Zionism's Literature
- Cultural and Intellectual History
- Literature and Cultural History in the formative years of Israeli statehood
Shay Rabineau
Chair of Judaic Studies/ Associate Professor of Israel Studies
Judaic Studies
Research Interests
- Israel/Palestine, Middle East Walking and Pilgrimage Routes
- Israeli Environmental History
- Historical Geography of the Middle East
Affiliated Faculty
Bryan Kirschen
Associate Professor; Associate Professor; Chair of Romance Languages; Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); The Linguistics Program; Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Contact Linguistics
- Language Variation
- Documentary Linguistics
- Language Ideologies
- Sephardic Studies
- Aljamiado Texts
Research Interests
- American Politics
- Public Opinion
- Campaigns and Campaign Finance
Research Interests
- Children's Literature
- American Literature
Kent F. Schull
Associate Professor; Director/CMENAS; TRIP Courtesy Title
History; Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- History of the Ottoman Empire
- Modern Middle East history
- Palestine-Israel
- Turkey
- Criminal justice in the Middle East
- Missiology
- Forced migration
- Middle East and North African diaspora communities