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Miriam Bodian

Professor

bodian@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4358 |
GAR 2.104A

Education: Ph.D., 1988, Hebrew University

Interests: Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions; post-Expulsion Sephardic Jewry; Jews and the Reformation

Davida H Charney

Faculty

dcharney@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8746 |
PAR 131

Education: Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University

David Crew

Professor

dfcrew@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7232 |
GAR 2.126

Education: Ph.D., 1975, Cornell University

Interests: history of popular culture and consumerism in twentieth-century Germany and Europe, the history and politics of memory, and the visual history of Germany in the twentieth century

David Eaton

Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor in Natural Resource Policy Studies

eaton@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8972 |
SRH 3.344

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Interests: U.S.-Mexico environmental cooperation, new methods for evaluation of air pollution emissions, joint management by Palestinians and Israelis of shared groundwater, and water conservation in Texas

Steven J. Friesen

Faculty

friesen@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: Social history of the early Christian churches | Roman imperial cults | Revelation and apocalypticism | indigenous religions | social locations and functions of religion

Michael P Harney

Professor

harney@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4936 |
BEN 3.148

Education: Ph.D.-Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature, Comparative literature, literary theory, cultural theory.

Geraldine Heng

Professor

heng@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7480 |
PAR 213

Education: Ph.D., Cornell University

John Hoberman

Professor

hoberman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6368 |
BUR 336

Education: Ph.D. Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race.

Naomi Lindstrom

Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture; Director, Gale Collaborative for the Study of Jewish Life in the Americas

lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4936 |
BEN 4.144

Education: Ph. D., Arizona State University

Interests: Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Literary Translation, Comparative Study of Jewish Life in the Americas (Latin America, U.S., Canada)

Julia Mickenberg

Professor

mickenberg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7277 |
BUR 420

Education: Ph. D., University of Minnesota

Mary Neuburger

Professor

burgerm@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9124 |
BUR 452

Education: Ph.D., 1997, University of Washington

Interests: Southeastern Europe, Bulgaria, food history, urban culture, consumption, gender, identity

Alexander Weinreb

Professor

aweinreb@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-0437 |
RLP 2.620E

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests: Social and political demography, data collection methods

L. Michael White

Professor; Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins

lmwhite@utexas.edu |
512-232-1438 |
BUR 504/BUR 529

Education: Ph.D., Yale University

Interests: Archaeology of ancient Synagogues; New Testament and Christian origins; social context of Jews and Christians in the Graeco-Roman period; Graeco-Roman Religion

Associate Professors

Hina Azam

Associate Professor, Islamic Studies

hina.azam@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8393 |
CAL 506

Education: Ph.D., 2007, Duke University, Department of Religion

Interests: Islamic law, ethics, theology, exegesis, hadith studies; Women/gender/sexuality in Islam; comparative religions of the Middle East; pedagogy and the teaching of Islamic Studies at the college level

Daniel Birkholz

Associate Professor

birkholz@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8807 |
PAR 225

Education: Ph.D., 1999, University of Minnesota

Interests: Middle English literature (especially lyric); Anglo-Norman literature (especially fabliau); geography, travel writing, and the history of cartography; medieval manuscript culture (miscellanies especially); Viking literature and culture; biography and biographical theory; post-medieval medievalism; pedagogy; Digital Humanities

Pascale Bos

Associate Professor

pascalebos@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6373 |
BUR 314

Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

Interests: 20th-century Comparative Western European and US literature; cultural studies, gender and memory, autobiography, Holocaust (history/culture/literature), sexual violence in armed conflict

Karen Grumberg

Center Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Faculty Coordinator, Israel Studies; Associate Professor

keren@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5134

Education: Ph.D.- 2004, University of California- Los Angeles

Interests: The Gothic; Comparative Literature; Modern Hebrew literature; 19th- and 20th-century American literature

Jonathan Kaplan

Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies; Associate Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies

jonathan.kaplan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9453 |
CAL 413

Education: Ph.D. 2010, Harvard University

Interests: Hebrew Bible (with specific interest in Song of Songs, Daniel, and Jonah), Second Temple Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Judaism, Midrash, Literary Theory, History of Biblical Interpretation, Utopian Studies

Tatjana Lichtenstein

Associate Professor; Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies

lichtens@austin.utexas.edu |
737-701-0600 |
GAR 0.110/RLP 2.402C

Education: Ph.D. 2009, University of Toronto, Canada

Interests: Twentieth century Eastern European history, Nationalism, Minorities and state-building, Zionist movement in the Bohemian Lands

Tracie M. Matysik

Associate Professor

matysik@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7521 |
GAR 3.402

Education: Ph.D., 2001, Cornell University

Martha G. Newman

Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies

newman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8660 |
BUR 532/GAR 3.408

Education: Ph.D., 1988, Stanford University

Interests: Medieval Christian monasticism; monastic miracle collections and monastic attitudes toward women and the poor

Na'ama Pat-El

Associate Professor

npatel@austin.utexas.edu |
232-8292 |
WMB 5.144

Education: Ph.D., 2008, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Semitic Philology), Harvard University

Interests: Comparative Semitic Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Languages in Contact,

Hervé Picherit

Associate Professor, French Studies

picherit@utexas.edu |
512-471-6874 |
HRH 3.104B

Education: PhD, Stanford

Interests: 20th century French literature, French cinema, the novel, the avant-garde, philosophies of fiction

Esther Raizen

Associate Professor

raizen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2094 |
GEB 3.212/CAL 507

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Rebecca Rossen

Associate Professor

r-rossen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7153 |
WIN 1.144

Education: Ph.D.(2006), Northwestern University

Interests: Ethnicity, nationality, and gender in performance; Jewish identity in American dance and media; Holocaust performance

Jonathan Schofer

Associate Professor

jonschofer@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8382 |
BUR 524

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests: Classical Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism, Hebrew Bible, law, ethics, mysticism, biblical interpretation (midrash)

Bruce Wells

Associate Professor

bruce.wells@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3463 |
CAL 414

Education: PhD, Near Eastern Studies, 2003, Johns Hopkins University

Interests: Historical and cultural contexts of the Hebrew Bible; pentateuchal studies; biblical law; priestly literature; economic, administrative, and legal systems of ancient Israel and Mesopotamia; marriage, sex, and family relations in the ancient world; religion and law

Assistant Professors

Geoffrey Smith

Faculty

gssmith@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Senior Lecturers

Yitskhok (Itzik) N. Gottesman

Senior Lecturer

itzikgottesman@utexas.edu |
512-232-6366 |
BUR 308

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests: Yiddish language, culture, theater, and drama; Jewish folklore; east European Jewish music, Jewish American immigrant life

Suzanne Seriff

Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology; Independent Museum Curator and Consultant

sseriff@austin.utexas.edu |
512- 232-1560 |
SAC 4.126

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Anthropology of Museum Representation; Representation of Jews in American Public Culture (museums, world's fairs, cartoons, theatre, literature); American Jewish Visual and Folk Culture; Texas Jews; The Galveston Movement.

Amelia Weinreb

Senior Lecturer

amy.weinreb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2204 |
RLP 4.412

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Lecturers

Jason Lustig

Israel Institute Teaching Fellow and Lecturer, History

jlustig@austin.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, UCLA, History

Anat Maimon

Lecturer

maimon@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6467 |
CAL 528

Interests: Hebrew Language, Israeli culture

Philip Yoo

Faculty

philip.yoo@austin.utexas.edu

Professors Emeriti

Robert H. Abzug

Founding Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, Audre & Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies. Co-Director of the Gale Collaborative on Jewish Life in the Americas

zug@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7240 |
GAR 3.310

Education: Ph.D., History, 1977, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: Social Reform and Religious Life in Antebellum America, America and the Holocaust, and the Interpenetration of Religion and Psychology in Modern American culture