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Faculty | | Biale, David | (530) 752-1640 | 3238 SSH | | David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History. He has just published a new book Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians ( 2007, University of California Press) and has completed a draft of another book entitled "Not in the Heavens: The Legacy of Secular Jewish Thought." This year he will be editing the section on Judaism of the Norton Anthology of World Religions.
| | | | Janowitz, Naomi | (530) 752-6255 | 924 Sproul | | Naomi Janowitz is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Religious Studies Program. Her areas of interest are Judaism in the Greco-Roman context, Hellenistic religions, methods in the study of religions and the psychoanalytic study of religion. Publications include: Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity (Penn State Univ. Press, 2002) and Magic in the Roman World (Routledge, 2001). Her current research is focused on the emergence of martyrdom in the ancient world. In 2005, she received a Distinguished Teaching Award. She teaches a course on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
| | | | Kelman, Ari Y. | (530) 752-5227 | 3120 Hart | | Ari Y Kelman is an assistant professor of American studies and a member of the Jewish Studies Program Committee. He is the author of Station Identification: a Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States (2008, University of California Press), and the co author, with Steven M. Cohen, of a number of studies of contemporary Jewish identities. He sits on the editorial board of the quarterly "guilt and pleasure," and is actively involved in a number of Jewish cultural projects. His current research interests include music, identity, community, and contemporary worship. | | | | Maoz, Zeev | (530) 752-1989 | 246 SSH | | Zeev Maoz is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Relations Program. His recent book is: Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy (University of Michigan Press, 2006). He teaches the Arab Israeli Conflict and International Politics of the Middle East. | | | | Wolf, Diane L. | (530) 752-1158 | 2267 SSH | | Diane L. Wolf is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Jewish Studies Program. Her recent publications include Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland (University of California Press 2007) and Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas (Duke Univ. Press, 2007). She teaches Contemporary American Jewish Identities and Communities. Her interests include family, gender, immigration, diaspora, trauma and memory, ethnography, and critical approaches to Jewish culture. Her current research is on Jews and circumcision. | | | Lecturers | | Belser, Julia Watts | | | | Julia Watts Belser is completing her Ph.D. in Jewish Studies in the Joint Doctoral Program at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union. Her interests include rabbinic literature, Jewish identity in late antiquity, and issues of gender in early Judaism. Her dissertation is entitled "Between the Human and the Holy: The Construction of Talmudic Theology in Masekhet Ta'anit." She was ordained as a rabbi from the Transdenominational Academy for Jewish Religion in 2007. She will be teaching Rabbinic Literature as well as the Introduction to Judaism in Winter. | | | | Braun, Alisa | (530) 754-7007 | 2229 SSH | | Alisa Braun is the Program Coordinator as well as a lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program. She teaches courses on modern Jewish literature, film, and visual culture. She is working on a book that explores the involvement of American Jewish writers in patron/protege relationships. Other areas of interest include Yiddish language and culture, writing and the marketplace, and literary celebrity. She teaches Secular Jewish Culture this Fall in addition to Jewish Identity and Visual Culture. In Winter she will teach Cinema and the American Jewish Experience and Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe.
| | | | Galoob, Robert | | | | Robert Galoob is a doctoral student in the Cultural and Historical Studies of Religion at the Graduate Theological Union and has an MA in Jewish Studies. His interests include Jewish-Christian relations, medieval Jewish history, Jewish martyrdom and anti-Semitism. He will teach the History of Anti-Semitism in Spring quarter. | | | | Raab, Alan | (530) 752-1062 | 724 Sproul | | Alon Raab has a degree in Jewish History with an emphasis on the ancient Near East. He taught at both the University of Oregon and at Portland State University for many years in the Department of Religious Studies (OU) and the Departments of Foreign Languages and History (PSU). He teaches first and second year Hebrew, The Bible through Film and the Israeli-Palestinian Encounter through Film and Literature.
| | | | Shreibman, Henry | | | | Henry Shreibman has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and is an ordained rabbi as well as a Doctor of Divinity. He is an adjunct faculty member in Religion and Philosophy at Dominican University, having taught at Spertus College in Chicago, Gratz College in Philadelphia as well as the Dept. of Theatre Arts at the Hebrew University. His area of interest is comparative religion of the ancient world. He will be teaching the Introduction to Jewish Cultures in Fall. | | | | Terry, Wendy R. | | | | Wendy R. Terry has a Ph.D. in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union and is a Lecturer in the Religious Studies Program. She regularly teaches the department's lower division survey courses, the upper division methods course required of majors and minors, as well as biblical studies courses. Her research foci include Christian Spirituality, History of Christianity, medieval mysticism, and the application of tools from Linguistics to the study of historical texts. She is teaching Hebrew Scriptures in Fall. | | | Affiliates | | Arnett, Carlee | (530) 752-0751 | 413 Sproul Hall | | Carlee Arnett is an Associate Professor in the Department of German. Trained as a Germanic Linguist, her main areas of research are theoretical syntax, historical linguistics and second language acquisition. She has an interest in the syntax, history and instruction of Yiddish. She teaches German Jewish Intellectual Thought and is interested in Jewish cultures in the German speaking world, particularly current groups in Germany. | | | | Fisher, Jaimey | (530) 752-1039 | 409 Sproul Hall | | Jaimey Fisher is Associate Professor of German who teaches often in Film Studies program as well. Aside from film studies, areas of expertise are twentieth and twenty first century German culture, intellectual history, and psychoanalysis. His current projects include a book length study of post 1989 German visual culture in light of European integration and another on wartime and postwar mobilization films from the 1910s through the 1950s. Some of his relevant publications include Disciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War (Kritik series, Wayne State UP, 2007) as well as an article in a forthcoming volume on
Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, and Memory. (Camden House). Relevant courses are: Nazi Perpetrators in Holocaust Cinema; The Holocaust and its Literary Representation; Multiculturalism in German Literature and Cinema in post 1989 Germany.
| | | | Hagen, William | (530) 752-0101 | 4204 SSH | | William Hagen is Professor of History whose specialization is German history. Among his many publications are Germans, Poles and Jews: the Nationality Conflict in the Prussian East, 1722-1914 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980) and articles focusing on the German-Jewish reaction to violence against Jews in Poland. One of his current projects is focused on “Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918-1920: Folk Vengeance and Apocalyptic Fears.” He teaches a course on Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Hist 143). | | | | Materson, Lisa | (530) 752-9991 | 3223 SSH | | Lisa Materson is an Assistant Professor of History. She specializes in Women’s History and African American history. She is also interested in Jewish women’s peace activism and the historical construction of Jewish racial identities | | | | Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian | (530) 754-8683 | 210C Art | | Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh is an Associate Professor of Art History. Her research interests encompass architecture and urbanism in the Islamic world, especially the Ottoman empire, Syria, Turkey; heritage and preservation; gender and space; spatial practice of minority and marginal groups in Islamic society. She is the author of The Image of an Ottoman City and is currently working on “The Non-Muslims’ Islamic City: A French Consul, a Jewish Merchant and an Armenian Pilgrim Narrate Ottoman Aleppo.” Her courses include The Islamic City as well as Arts of the Islamic Book; both cover the contribution of minority groups, including Jews, to the visual arts of the Islamic world. | | | | Watenpaugh, Keith David | (530) 752-8348 | 902 Sproul Hall | | Keith David Watenpaugh is Associate Professor of Modern Islam, Human Rights
and Peace in the Religious Studies Program. He is the author of Being Modern
in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006). His courses of interest include RST 131 Genocide and RST 167 Iraq. He is finishing a new book on the Middle East and the evolution of the modern human rights regime.
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