Duke University Center for Jewish Studies

Director

    • Eric M Meyers
    • Bernice & Morton Lerner Professor of Religion, Director of The Center for Jewish Studies
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Director of Undergraduate Studies

    • Laura S Lieber
    • Associate Professor of Religion, Assistant Director of The Center for Jewish Studies, and Director of The Center of Late Ancient Studies
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Faculty

Core Faculty

    • Ellen F Davis
    • Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, Divinity School
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    • William C. Donahue
    • Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages & Literature
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    • Shai Ginsburg
    • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
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    • Malachi H. Hacohen
    • Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History, Political Science and Religion
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    • Laura S Lieber
    • Associate Professor of Religion, Assistant Director of The Center for Jewish Studies, and Director of The Center of Late Ancient Studies
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    • Carol L Meyers
    • Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Religion, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Religion
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    • Eric M Meyers
    • Bernice & Morton Lerner Professor of Religion, Director of The Center for Jewish Studies
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    • Ylana N Miller
    • Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History
    • Memory and History: The Eichmann, Trial, Hannah Arendt, and the Construction of Jewish Community
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    • Shelli Plesser
    • Lecturer, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
    • Her interests are focused primarily on the communicative performance of languages with a strong adherence to the Chomskian-generative view of language, language development, and language acquisiton. Shelli is a native Hebrew speaker (she was born and raised in Israel) and has been interested in language acquisition as well as multilingualism ...
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    • Rebecca L. Stein
    • Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies
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    • James A Tulsky
    • Professor of Medicine
    • Dr. Tulsky's primary interests are end-of-life care, physician-patient communication, and medical ethics.  He studies quality of life at the end of life, decision-making in serious illness, negotiation of patient expectations in managed care, and evaluates interventions to improve the care of dying patients.  Methodologically, he has used techniques of health services research and ...
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Affiliated Faculty

    • Stephen B. Chapman
    • Associate Professor of Old Testament, Divinity School
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    • Roberto Dainotto
    • Associate Professor, Chair, and Director of Graduate Study, Department of Romance and Italian Studies
    • Literature and Place, Nationalism and Regionalism, Aesthetic Theory, Italian Idealism, Translation Theory, Autobiography, Ideas of Europe, European Visions of the New World, The Cultural Formation of the Italian Nation.
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    • Thomas J Ferraro
    • Frances Hill Fox Professor of English
    • Professor Ferraro is an aficinado of the great American stuff--Emily Dickinson, Edward Hopper, the Marx Brothers, and Nina Simone--who writes on literature, film, and the performing arts. He is the author of Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in 20th-Century America (U Chicago, 1993), the editor of Catholic Lives, Contemporary America (Duke, ...
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    • Bryan Gilliam
    • Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities; Music
    • Ph.D., Harvard University. Author of books and articles on late 19th-and early 20th-century German music. Specialties include Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, German opera, fin-de-siècle Vienna, film music, and American popular song.
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    • Martin P Golding
    • Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law
    • Martin P. Golding (Ph.D. 1959, Columbia) joined the Duke faculty on September 1, 1976, as Professor of Philosophy and Law. He has taught at Columbia University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice and held visiting appointments at the University of California (both Berkeley and Los Angeles), Bar-Ilan University of Israel, University ...
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    • Claudia Koonz
    • Professor and Peabody Family Chair, Department of History
    • How does it happen that citizens who consider themselves deeply moral can believe that some of their fellow citizens embody a danger so lethal that they must be eliminated? In "The Nazi Conscience," I examined public culture during the so-called normal years of the Third Reich (1933-1939) and identified the key role of popular racial science and expert opinion in convincing mainstream Germans that Jews, homosexuals, Roma (Gypsies) were so "alien" that they scarcely ...
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    • Joel Marcus
    • Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Divinity School
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    • Irene M Silverblatt
    • Professor of Cultural Anthropology, History and Women's Studies
    • Irene Silverblatt, Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1981, researches the cultural dimensions of state- building and colonization in Latin America. She is particularly interested in the relation of gender, racial discourses, and historical memory to the construction and experience of power. As a Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, she will be writing ...
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    • Helen Solterer
    • Professor of French and Romance Studies
    • Pre-modern French Literature and Culture; Theater; Gender Criticism; Modern French Cultural History
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    • Annabel J Wharton
    • William B. Hamilton Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
    • My work has focused on Late Antique and Byzantine art and culture, but I have also investigated the effect of modernity on the medieval past and its landscapes, first in my study of the first generation of Hilton International Hotels (Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture, University of Chicago Press, 2001) ...
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Postdocs

Staff

Graduate Students

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