The highly accomplished Jewish Studies faculty specializes in ancient Judaism, Yiddish and East European Jewish culture, Jewish culture in Muslim countries, Hebrew language and literature, and Holocaust Studies, among many other areas of inquiry.
Student Advisor
Assistant Director Carolyn Lipson-Walker advises JSP students. Contact her at: clipsonw@indiana.edu or by phone: 812-856-6012.
The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University is an interdepartmental program. Our faculty are housed in various departments — approaching Jewish culture from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives — anthropology, history, literature, linguistics, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and others. Our faculty is distinguished both by its cutting-edge scholarship and by its commitment to providing students with an outstanding education.
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Faculty
Faculty by department:
| Affiliate or Adjunct faculty* | |
| Anthropology: | Bahloul | |
| Comparative Literature: | Marks, Segal | |
| English: | Gubar*, Rosenfeld | |
| Folklore and Ethnomusicology: | Cohen | |
| Germanic Studies: | Kerler | |
| History: | Lehmann, Roseman, Veidlinger, Wahrman* | |
| Musicology: | Goldberg* | |
| Near Eastern Languages and Cultures: | S. Katz | |
| Philosophy: | Morgan | |
| Political Science: | Bielasiak*, Isaac*, Spechler | |
| Religious Studies: | Halberstam, Harrill*, Levene*, Magid, Weitzman | |
| Slavic Languages and Literature: | Volkova* | |
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Faculty Contact Alphabetical Listing:
Joëlle Bahloul, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology of Judaism and the Jews
Student Building 160, 812-855-5072, bahloul@indiana.edu
Jack Bielasiak, Professor of Political Science and Russian and East European Institute
Politics of the Holocaust
Woodburn Hall 413, 812-855-5662, bielasia@indiana.edu
Judah Cohen, The Lou and Sybil Mervis Chair in Jewish Culture; Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Music in Jewish Life; American Music; Musical Theater; Popular Culture; Caribbean Jewish History; Diaspora; Medical Ethnomusicology
506 N. Fess 103, 812-855-0141, cohenjm@indiana.edu
Halina Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Music, School of Music, Department of Musicology
Chopin, Music in Poland and Eastern Europe, Performance Practice, Reception, and National Constructs
Simon Music Building, Room M325D, 812-855-7096, goldberg@indiana.edu
Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English
Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British and American Literature; Holocaust Literature
Ballantine Hall 442, 812-855-3634, gubar@indiana.edu
Chaya Halberstam, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Hebrew Bible and Midrash
Sycamore Hall 203, 812-855-2492, chalbers@indiana.edu
J. Albert Harrill, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
New Testament Studies and Early Judaism, Early Christian Social History, Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Sycamore Hall 207, 855-8654; jharrill@indiana.edu
Jeffrey Isaac, Rudy Professor of Political Science, Chair of Department of Political Science
Political Theory
Woodburn Hall, 812-855-8605, isaac@indiana.edu
Stephen Katz, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Hebrew; Israeli Culture; Modern Hebrew Literature
Goodbody Hall 206, 812-855-4744, katzs@indiana.edu
Dov-Ber Kerler, Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair in Yiddish Studies, Professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies
History, Dialectology, Sociology, and the Linguistic Analysis of Yiddish; History of Old Yiddish Literature (15th to 18th Century); Yiddish-Slavic Linguistic and Cultural Contacts; Yiddish and Modern Israeli Hebrew; Modern Yiddish Poetry
Ballantine Hall 644, 812-855-1951, dkerler@indiana.edu
Matthias Lehmann, Associate Professor, Jewish Studies and History
Jews in Islamic Lands and Medieval Spain; Sephardic Literature; Ottoman-Jewish History; 19th Century German Jewry
Ballantine Hall 836, 812-855-4250, mlehmann@indiana.edu
Nancy Levene, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Modern European and Jewish Religious Thought
Sycamore Hall 209A, 812-855-6669, nlevene@indiana.edu
Shaul Magid, Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies; Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Jewish Thought; Hasidic Judaism; Modern Jewish Religious Experience
Sycamore Hall 225; 812-856-1469; smagid@indiana.edu
Herbert Marks, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Biblical and Literary Studies
Ballantine Hall 913, 812-855-7935, marks@indiana.edu
Michael L. Morgan, Chancellor's Professor, Jewish Studies and Philosophy
Jewish Philosophy
Sycamore Hall 026, 812-855-0206, morganm@indiana.edu
Mark Roseman, Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Professor of Jewish Studies and History
History of the Holocaust; History of Antisemitism; The Holocaust; German-Jewish history
Ballantine Hall 732, 812-855-8325, marrosem@indiana.edu
Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director, Institute of Jewish Culture and the Arts; Professor of Jewish Studies and English
Literature of the Holocaust; American Jewish Literature
Goodbody Hall 306; 812-855-2325, rosenfel@indiana.edu
Miryam Segal, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature
Modern Hebrew Literature and Language
Ballantine Hall 919, 812-855-0737, mcsegal@indiana.edu
Dina Spechler, Associate Professor of Political Science
Comparative Foreign Policy; American, Russian, and Israeli Foreign Policy
Woodburn 414, 812-855-5267, spechler@indiana.edu
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Associate Director of Borns JSP; Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies; Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History
Modern Jewish History; East European Jewish History; Russian History
Ballantine Hall 834, 812-855-5877, jveidlin@indiana.edu
Bronislava Volková, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Czech/Jewish Literature; Czech Linguistics and Semiotics
Ballantine Hall 512; (812) 855-2359; volkova@indiana.edu
Dror Wahrman, Ruth N. Halls Professor of History
History of Ottoman Palestine and Israel
Ballantine 714, 812-855-1534, dwahrman@indiana.edu
Steven Weitzman, Director of the Borns JSP; Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies; Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Hebrew Bible and Early Biblical Interpretation
Goodbody Hall 308, 812-856-6013, sweitzma@indiana.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Jim Ackerman, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Religion of Ancient Israel; Bible
Sycamore Hall 230, ackerman@indiana.edu
Paul Eisenberg, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Jewish Philosophy
Sycamore Hall 026, eisenber@indiana.edu
Henry Fischel, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Hebrew; Aramaic; Talmud; Intertestamental Literature
In Memoriam of Irving Katz, Professor Emeritus of History
American Jewish History
Lecturers in Modern Hebrew
Michal Maoz-Levy, Lecturer in Modern Hebrew
Memorial West 008, 812-856-1936, mmaoz@indiana.edu
Ayelet Weiss, Director of Modern Hebrew Language Program; Lecturer in Modern Hebrew
Goodbody Hall 003-3, 812-855-2338, ayweiss@indiana.edu
Hebrew Instructors
Ellen Muehlberger, Biblical Hebrew
Sycamore Hall 007, 812-855-2011, emuehlbe@indiana.edu
Eyal Tamir, Modern Hebrew
Memorial Hall 009, 812-856-1431, etamir@indiana.edu
Hebrew and Yiddish Librarian and Jewish Studies Bibliographer
Noa Wahrman
Library E 350, 812-855-9204, nwahrman@indiana.edu
Staff
Melissa Deckard, Events Coordinator
Goodbody Hall 317; 812-856-6014, mdeckard@indiana.edu
Melissa Hunt, Secretary
Goodbody Hall 326, 812-855-0453, huntma@indiana.edu
Janice Hurtuk, Program Administrator and Fiscal Officer
Goodbody Hall 307, 812-855-8358, jhurtuk@indiana.edu
Carolyn Lipson-Walker, Assistant Director
Goodbody Hall 325, 812-856-6012, clipsonw@indiana.edu
Faculty Vacancy Notices
Borns Jewish Studies Program
Goodbody Hall 326
1011 E. 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
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