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 »
Roberto Maria Dainotto
Professor of Romance Studies
Office: 217A Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Office Hours: W 11:30-12:30pm, or by appointment
Modern and contemporary Italian culture. Publications include Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (Cornell UP, 2000); Europe (in Theory) (Duke UP, 2007); 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
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor
Office: 116B Old Chemistry Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90256, Durham, NC 27708-0256
Phone: (919) 660-3168
Office Hours: Fall 2017 office hoursWed 11:30am-1:30pm
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 »
Shai Ginsburg
Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Office: John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708-0414
Campus Box: Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
Phone: (919) 681-4592
Office Hours: Thursday 9:30-11:30 & Friday 11:30-1:30Or By Appointment
Malachi H. Hacohen
Associate Professor of History
Office: 210 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Phone: (919) 684-6819
MALACHI HAIM HACOHEN (Ph.D., Columbia), Bass Fellow and Associate Professor of History, Political Science and Religion, is Director of the Religions and Public Life Initiative at the Kenan Institute... Full Profile »
Beth Holmgren
Professor with Tenure
Office: 316 Languages Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
Phone: (919) 660-3140
Beth Holmgren is a full professor trained in Polish Studies and Russian Studies, with special expertise in narrative and film analysis, performance studies, gender studies, diasporic studies, and... Full Profile »
Laura Suzanne Lieber
Professor of Religious Studies
Office: 118B Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
Phone: (919) 660-3510
My primary area of research is in the area of synagogue poetry ("piyyut") from Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period. I examine these works from a variety of perspectives, including literary,... Full Profile »
Ylana Miller
Visiting Scholar in the Department of History
Office: 318 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Phone: (919) 668-1611
Memory and History: The Eichmann, Trial, Hannah Arendt, and the Construction of Jewish Community Full Profile »
Melvin K. H. Peters
Professor of Religious Studies
Office: 325 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
Phone: (919) 660-3508
Shelli Plesser
Lecturer in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Office: 2204 Erwin Road Room 234, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
Phone: (919) 684-6104
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... Full Profile »
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 »
Helen Solterer
Professor of Romance Studies
Office: 217B Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Phone: (919) 660-3118
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 5-6 pm.& by appt.
My research focuses on pre-modern literatures and cultures. I study these French vernacular fictions in historical action, shaped not only by events of their first era, but by many others, including... Full Profile »
Rebecca L. Stein
Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Office: 205 Friedl Building, 1316 Campus Drive Duke Box 900, Durham, NC 27710
Campus Box: Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
Phone: (919) 684-4663
My research studies linkages between cultural and political processes in Israel in relation to its military occupation and the history of Palestinian dispossession. I am the author of (with Adi... 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 »
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 »
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 »
Stephen B. Chapman
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Office: 051 Langford, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708-0967
Phone: (919) 660-3408
A proponent of theological interpretation of the Bible, Professor Chapman has studied, lectured, and taught internationally in a variety of academic and church settings. His work focuses on the... Full Profile »
Thomas J. Ferraro
Frances Hill Fox Professor of English
Office: 323 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-3718
Office Hours: M, 2:15-3:45; and Th, 3:00-4:30; and by appointment
Professor Ferraro is an aficionado 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... Full Profile »
Bryan Gilliam
Professor of Music
Office: 067 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
Phone: (919) 660-3321
Ph.D., Harvard University. Author of books and articles on late 19th-and early 20th-century German music. Specialties include Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, 19th and... Full Profile »
David Benjamin Goldstein
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Office: P And S 630 West 168th Street, Suite 11 101, New York, NY 10032
Campus Box: 268 CARL, Box 3054, Durham, NC 27710
Phone: (212) 305-0932
Christy Lohr
Associate Dean for Religious Life
Office: 048 Chapel Basement, Box 90974, Durham, NC 27710
Campus Box: Duke Box 90974, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 684-2909
Christy Lohr Sapp is the Associate Dean for Religious Life at Duke University Chapel. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter in England, and her scholarly research focuses on Christian... 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 »
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 »
Annabel J. Wharton
William B. Hamilton Professor of Art and Art History in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Office: 114 South Buchanan Blvd, Smith Warehouse Bay 9, A288A Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 684-2495
ANNABEL WHARTON, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art History, Duke University, and Vincent Scully Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture in 2014, received her Ph.D. at the Courtauld... Full Profile »
Saskia Ziolkowski
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office: 205 Language Ctr, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Phone: (919) 660-2436
Website: www.saskiaziolkowski.com 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
Eric M. Meyers
Bernice and Morton Lerner Emeritus Professor in Judaic Studies
Office: 230C Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
Phone: (919) 660-3517