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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

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 3.204

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

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 |
232-6368 |
BUR 322

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; Co-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)

Joan Neuberger

Professor

neuberger@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7219 |
GAR 2.102

Education: Ph.D., 1985, Stanford University

Interests: modern Russian culture in social and political context

Mary Neuburger

Professor

burgerm@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7220 |
BUR 452

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

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

Ami Pedahzur

Faculty

pedahzur@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Haifa, Israel

L. Michael White

Professor; Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins

lmwhite@utexas.edu |
512-232-1438 |
BUR 502-12

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

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, Associate Professor

keren@austin.utexas.edu

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

Interests: Contemporary Hebrew literature and comparative Jewish literatures (Hebrew, French, English)

Tatjana Lichtenstein

Faculty

lichtens@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6171 |
GAR 0.110/CLA 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 |
475-7521 |
GAR 3.402

Education: Ph.D., 2001, Cornell University

Julia Mickenberg

Faculty

mickenberg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3607 |
BUR 456

Education: Ph. D., University of Minnesota

Martha G. Newman

Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies

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

Education: Ph.D., 1988, Stanford University

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

Esther Raizen

Associate Professor

raizen@austin.utexas.edu |
GEB 3.212

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

Rebecca Rossen

Associate Professor

r-rossen@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7153

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 |
Burdine 524

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

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

Alexander Weinreb

Associate Professor

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

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests: Social and political demography, data collection methods

Assistant Professors

Jonathan Kaplan

Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

jonathan.kaplan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9453 |
CAL 503

Education: Ph.D. 2010, Harvard University

Interests: Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic Judaism, Midrash, Literary Theory, History of Biblical Interpretation, Utopian Studies

Senior Lecturers

Yitskhok (Itzik) N. Gottesman

Senior Lecturer

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

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993

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@mail.utexas.edu |
232-1560 |
2.112C

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.