Faculty
Core Faculty
Marc Zvi Brettler
Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor in Judaic Studies
Marc Brettler, a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature, is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies in the... Full Profile »
Ellen F. Davis
Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology in the Divinity School
Office: 303 Old Divinity, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
Phone: (919) 660-3561
Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School in North Carolina. The author of eight books and many articles, her research interests... Full Profile »
Kata Gellen
Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
Office: 116B Old Chemistry Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90256, Durham, NC 27708-0256
Phone: (919) 660-3168
Office Hours: Fall 2018 office hoursTuesday and Thursday 2:45-3:45pm
My main areas of research are German literary modernism, German-Jewish culture, Weimar cinema, and Austrian literature. My manuscript, Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary... Full Profile »
Ylana Miller
Visiting Assoc Professor
Office: 318 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 668 1611
Irene Silverblatt
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 500 W 111th St, Apt 2B, New York, NY 10025
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 641-0319
Irene Silverblatt researches the cultural dimensions of power. She studies how “race-thinking” and gender relations were integral to the making of the modern world as well as how historical memory... Full Profile »
Avner Vengosh
Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Office: 205 Old Chemistry Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90230, Durham, NC 27708-0230
Phone: (919) 681-8050
My research aims to link environmental geochemistry and isotope hydrology in order to trace the sources and mechanisms of water contamination and relationships with human health. Current research... Full Profile »
Affiliated Faculty
Yaakov Ariel
Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Office: 106 Carolina Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
Phone: (919) 962 - 3930
Yaakov Ariel is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Chicago, where he completed a doctoral degree on Christian messianic groups and their relation to Jews and... Full Profile »
Joel Marcus
Professor of New Testament
Office: 217 Gray Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
Phone: (919) 660-3562
Joel Marcus teaches New Testament with an emphasis on the Gospels and the context of early Christianity within Judaism. His publications include two monographs on Mark, a two-volume commentary on the... Full Profile »
Steven Sager
Visiting Lecturer in Academic Programs
Office: 101 New Divinity, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90968, Durham, NC 27708-0968
Phone: (919) 660-3432
Steven Sager has been the Rabbi of Beth El Synagogue in Durham for over a decade. A graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, he also earned a M.A. in Religion from Temple University and... Full Profile »
J. Ross Wagner
Associate Professor of New Testament
Office: Box 90968, 407 Chapel Drive, 316 Gray, Durham, NC 27705
Campus Box: Box 90968, 316 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0968
Phone: (919) 660-3480
Professor Wagner returned to Duke in 2013 after teaching New Testament for fifteen years at Princeton Theological Seminary. Specializing in Paul’s letters and in Septuagint studies, he seeks to... Full Profile »
Priscilla Wald
R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English
Office: 327B Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-6869
Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-18th to mid-20th centuries, contemporary narratives of science and medicine, science fiction... Full Profile »
Emeritus
Martin P. Golding
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Office: 201K West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
Phone: (919) 660-3062
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... Full Profile »
Claudia Koonz
Peabody Family Professor Emeritus of History in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Office: 333 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Phone: (919) 684-3941
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,"... Full Profile »
Carol L. Meyers
Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Religion in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Office: 227 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
Phone: (919) 660-3514