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.
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.
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Director
jveidlin@indiana.edu (812) 856-6013
Shaul Magid, Associate Director
smagid@indiana.edu (812) 856-1469
Carolyn Lipson-Walker, Assistant Director
clipsonw@indiana.edu (812) 856-6012
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Core faculty*
| Anthropology: | Bahloul |
| Communication and Culture: | Simons |
| Comparative Literature: | Marks* |
| English: | Rosenfeld* |
| Folklore and Ethnomusicology: | Cohen* |
| Germanic Studies: | Kerler* |
| History: | Roseman*, Veidlinger*, Wahrman |
| History of Art | Facos |
| Musicology: | Goldberg |
| Near Eastern Languages and Cultures: | Katz*, Khazzoom* |
| Political Science: | Bielasiak, Isaac, Spechler* |
| Religious Studies: | Imhoff*, Levene, Magid*, Mokhtarian*, Mroczek* |
| Slavic Languages and Literatures | Stern-Gottschalk |
| Hebrew Language | Maoz-Levy*, Naor*, Weiss* |
Professor of Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology of Judaism and the Jews
bahloul@indiana.edu | Student Building 160 | 812-855-5072 | More »
Professor of Political Science and Russian and East European Institute
Politics of the Holocaust
bielasia@indiana.edu | Woodburn Hall 413 | 812-855-5662 | More »
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Music in Jewish Life; American Music; Musical Theater; Popular Culture; Caribbean Jewish History; Diaspora; Medical Ethnomusicology
cohenjm@indiana.edu | 506 N. Fess 103 | 812-855-0141 | More »
Professor, Department of History of Art
mfacos@indiana.edu | Fine Arts, Room 132 | 812-855-9559 | More »
Associate Professor of Music, School of Music, Department of Musicology
Chopin, Music in Poland and Eastern Europe, Performance Practice, Reception, and National Constructs
goldberg@indiana.edu | Simon Music Building, Room M325D | 812-855-7096 | More »
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies & Religious Studies
Gender and Judaism, Race and Jewishness, Rabbinic Literature, American Religious History
seimhoff@indiana.edu | Sycamore 223| More »
Rudy Professor of Political Science
Political Theory
isaac@indiana.edu | Woodburn Hall | 812-855-8605 | More »
Professor of Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Hebrew; Israeli Culture; Modern Hebrew Literature
katzs@indiana.edu | Goodbody Hall 206 | 812-855-4744 | More »
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
dkerler@indiana.edu | Ballantine Hall 644 | 812-855-1951 | More »
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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khazzoom@indiana.edu | Goodbody Hall 348 | More »
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Modern European and Jewish Religious Thought
nlevene@indiana.edu | Sycamore Hall 209A | 812-855-6669 | More »
Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Jewish Thought; Hasidic Judaism; Modern Jewish Religious Experience
smagid@indiana.edu | Sycamore Hall 225 | 812-856-1469 | More »
Professor, Comparative Literature
marks@indiana.edu | Ballantine Hall 913 | 812-855-7935 | More »
Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
jmokhtar@indiana.edu | Sycamore 334| 812-85X-XXX | More »
Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
emroczek@indiana.edu | Sycamore Hall 207
Professor of Jewish Studies and History
History of the Holocaust; History of Antisemitism; The Holocaust; German-Jewish History
marrosem@indiana.edu | Ballantine Hall 732 | 812-855-8325 | More »
Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism; Professor of Jewish Studies and English
Literature of the Holocaust; American Jewish Literature
rosenfel@indiana.edu | Goodbody Hall 306 | 812-855-2325 | More »
Associate Professor of Communication and Culture
area of specialization
simonsj@indiana.edu | 800 E. Third Street, room 239 | 812-856-0896 | More »
Associate Professor of Political Science
Comparative Foreign Policy; American, Russian, and Israeli Foreign Policy
spechler@indiana.edu | Woodburn 414 | 812-855-5267 | More »
Director of the Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages & Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Language pedagogy and assessment; historical Slavic linguistics; Yiddish in Poland
aristern@indiana.edu | Ballantine Hall 570 | 812-855-1648 | More »
Professor of Jewish Studies and History
Modern Jewish History; East European Jewish History; Russian History
jveidlin@indiana.edu | Goodbody 308 | 812-856-6013 | More »
Ruth N. Halls Professor of History
History of Ottoman Palestine and Israel
dwahrman@indiana.edu | Ballantine 714 | 812-855-1534 | More »
Senior Lecturer in Modern Hebrew
ayweiss@indiana.edu | Goodbody Hall 312 | 812-855-2338
Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
iujsp@indiana.edu | Office TBA | 812-85X-XXXX
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Religion of Ancient Israel; Bible
ackerman@indiana.edu | Sycamore Hall 230 | More »
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Jewish Philosophy
eisenber@indiana.edu | Sycamore Hall 026 | More »
Distinguished Professor of English
Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British and American Literature; Holocaust Literature
gubar@indiana.edu | Ballantine Hall 442 | 812-855-3634 | More »
Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, Jewish Studies and Philosophy
Jewish Philosophy
morganm@indiana.edu | Sycamore Hall 026 | 812-855-0206 | More »
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Czech/Jewish Literature; Czech Linguistics and Semiotics
volkova@indiana.edu | Ballantine Hall 512 | 812-855-2359 | More »
Program Administrator and Fiscal Officer
jhurtuk@indiana.edu | Goodbody Hall 307 | 812-855-8358
Assistant Director
clipsonw@indiana.edu | Goodbody Hall 325 | 812-856-6012 | More »
