Pamela Nadell: Program Director, Patrick Clarendon Chair in Women’s and Gender History, and Chair of the Department of History
- Teaches a wide variety of courses in Jewish history, including Ancient and Medieval Jewish Civilization, Modern Jewish Civilization, American Jewish History, American Jewish Women’s History, Holocaust, and History of Israel
- Author of Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination and Conservative Judaism in America and co-editor of New Essays in American Jewish History
Boaz Atzili: Professor of International Politics
- Teaches Arab-Israeli Relations
- Author of Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict
Michael Brenner: Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, Professor of Jewish History and Culture, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Author of: A Short History of the Jews; Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History; Zionism: A Brief History; The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany, and After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany
Max Paul Friedman: Professor of History
- Teaches U.S. Foreign Relations
- Author of Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans in Latin American in World War II
Gershon Greenberg: Professor of Philosophy and Religion
- Specializes in modern Jewish philosophy, America and the Holy Land, and religious and philosophical meanings of the Holocaust
- Author of The Holy Land in American Religious Thought. 1620-1948
Caleen Jennings: Professor, Department of Performing Arts
- Author of Cream Soda and Crème de Menthe, a play about African-American/Jewish relations
Alan Kraut: Professor of History
- Specializes in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, the history of medicine in the United States, and the American Civil War
- Author of Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace,” Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader, and co-author of American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945 with Richard Breitman
Lisa Leff: Professor of History
- Specializes in the study of Jews in France
- Author of Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France and The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
Allan Lichtman: Distinguished Professor
- Co-author of FDR and the Jews with Richard Breitman
Eric Lohr: Professor of History
- Susan Carmel Lehrman Chair of Russian History and Culture
- Author of Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I
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Emeriti Faculty
Richard Breitman: Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History
- Teaches courses on modern Germany, the Holocaust, and twentieth-century European political and intelligence history
- Author of Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew and U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, co-author of FDR and the Jews with Allan Lichtman, and editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Gail Humphries Mardirosian: Professor Emerita, Department of Performing Arts
- Teaches about the Holocaust through the performing arts
Myra Sklarew: Professor Emerita, Department of Literature
- Author of Lithuania: New & Selected Poems and Holocaust and the Construction of Memory
Russell Stone: Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology
- Has published on social change in Israel and the Middle East and is a co-editor of the series Critical Essays on Israeli Issues and Scholarship
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Adjunct Faculty
Sara Grayson:
- Teaches Hebrew language
Rivka Degani Peltier:
- Teaches Hebrew language
Lauren Strauss:
- Specializes in American Jewish History and Modern Jewish literature and cultural history
- Co-editor of Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World with Michael Brenner