Stephen Burnett Classics & Religious Studies
Jewish-Christian relations in early modern Europe (c. 1450-1750), Christian Hebraism, German Jewish printing
Jean Cahan Harris Center Director, 2005 -
Philosophy and Political Science
Modern European philosophy, modern Jewish thought, Spinoza, anti-Semitism, political theory, Israel and modern Jewish identity
Sidnie Crawford Classics & Religious Studies
Second Temple Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls, textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Bedross Der Matossian History
Ethnic Politics in the Middle East, inter-ethnic violence in the Ottoman Empire, 19th- and 20th-century social and economic history of the Middle East, modern Armenian history
Ari Kohen Political Science
Political philosophy, human rights, restorative justice, Israel and the Middle East
Naomi Leite Harris Center Assistant Director
Anthropology
Social identities, cross-cultural variation in models of Jewishness, cultural globalization, tourism and heritage, museums
Brian Lepard College of Law
International human rights law; humanitarianism; perspectives of world religions on human rights; comparative religious law and ethics
Philip Schwadel Sociology
Sociology of religion, social inequality, social change, civic and political participation, expressions of religious identity
Jordan Soliz Communication Studies
Social identity, intergroup communication, multiethnic and interfaith families, intergroup (including interfaith) contact in online spaces
Gerald Steinacher History
Jewish history and the Holocaust, National Socialism, Italian Fascism, Intelligence history
John Turner Classics & Religious Studies
Biblical studies, Hellenistic and Greco-Roman religion and philosophy, Gnosticism, later periods of Platonism and Neoplatonism