Faculty
Core Faculty
Marc Zvi Brettler
Bernice and Morton Lerner Distinguished 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: TH 3:00-4:30pm, 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 Distinguished 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
Associate Professor 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 2019 office hoursTues/Thur 12-1pm
My main areas of research are German literary modernism, German-Jewish culture, Weimar cinema, and Austrian literature. My book, 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
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 Professor of History, Political Science and Religion, is Director of the Religions and Public Life Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics... Full Profile »
Beth Holmgren
Professor of Polish and Russian Studies
Office: 316 Languages Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
Phone: (919) 660-3140
Beth Holmgren, a full professor of Polish Studies and Russian Studies, has published widely on Polish literature, theater, popular culture, and film; Russian literature, film, and women's studies;... 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) 660-3504
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 Assoc Professor
Office: 318 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 668 1611
Irene Silverblatt
Professor Emerita 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 and teaching focus on pre-modern literature and culture in French and their interplay with contemporary thought; twentieth-century French cultural history; writing through gender.... Full Profile »
Rebecca L. Stein
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: 308 Research Drive, A-207 LSRC, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90328, 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 »
Saskia Ziolkowski
Assistant Professor of Romance Studies
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 »
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
Professor of English
Office: 421 Chapel Dr., Dept of English, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-3718
Office Hours: Spring 2020 Office Hours Mondays 2:15-3:30 pm, Thursdays 3:15-4:30 pm and by appointment. 323 Allen Building Duke University Durham NC 27708-0015
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 »
Joel Marcus
Professor Emeritus 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History
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 »
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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Judaic Studies
Office: 230C Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
Phone: (919) 660-3517