Professors
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
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
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.
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
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 |
CAL 402
Education: Ph.D.- 2004, University of California- Los Angeles
Interests: Contemporary Hebrew literature and comparative Jewish literatures (Hebrew, French, English)
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
Faculty
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
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
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: New Testament | Early Christianity | Patristics | Nag Hammadi | Papyrology | Coptic Language and Literature
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
Anat Maimon
Lecturer
maimon@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6467 |
CAL 528
Interests: Hebrew Language, Israeli culture
Professors Emeriti
Aaron Bar-Adon
Professor Emeritus
bar-adon@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3594 |
WMB 6.132
Education: Ph.D., Hebrew University
Jo Ann Hackett
Professor
hackett@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-6951 |
CAL 501B
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Robert King
Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
rking@austin.utexas.edu |
CAL 501
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin
Interests: Historical Linguistics; Yiddish; Languages of India.
Harold Liebowitz
Professor Emeritus
liebowitz@utexas.edu |
512-475-6786 |
WMB 6.126
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Abraham Marcus
Faculty
amarcus@utexas.edu |
512-471-3261 |
GAR 3.406
Education: Ph.D., 1979, Columbia University
Interests: Arab and Ottoman history; Islamic history; social history of the Middle East; music cultures of the Middle East
Seth Wolitz
Professor Emeritus, L. D., Marie and Edwin Gale Chair Emeritus of Judaic Studies
slwolitz@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-5531 |
HRH 3.114A
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: French, Jewish studies, Yiddish, and Afro-Antillian literature