UNC Jewish Studies Faculty
∙ Yaakov Ariel ∙ Jonathan Boyarin ∙ Christopher Browning
∙ Erin Carlston ∙ Marcie Cohen Ferris ∙ Luceil Friedman
∙ Jonathan Hess ∙ Madeline Levine ∙ Jodi Magness
∙ Evyatar Marienberg ∙ Bennie Reynolds∙ Yaron Shemer
∙ Ruth von Bernuth
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Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Areas of research: Jewish-Christian relations; Mission to the Jews and Jewish conversions to Christianity; new Jewish religious movements; American Judaism
Phone: 919-962-3930 Email: yariel@email.unc.edu
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The Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, Department of Religious Studies
Areas of research: Jewish cultural studies; comparative diasporas; East Eurpoean Jewish culture and society; intersections of Eurocentrism; Christianity and colonialism; rhetorics of time and space.
Phone: 919-962-3937 Email: jboyarin@email.unc.edu
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Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of History, Department of History
Areas of research: history of the holocaust
Phone: 919-962-2371 Email: cbrownin@email.unc.edu
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Associate Professor of English, Department of English
Areas of research: comparative European and American modernisms; Jewish studies; gender and secuality studies
Phone: 919-962-4037 Email: carlston@email.unc.edu
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Assistant professor, Curriculum in American Studies
Areas of research: Jewish south; Judaism and domestic culture; material and social history of the American south; women's studies; American foodways.
Phone: 919-843-9881 Email: ferrism@email.unc.edu
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Lecturer in Hebrew language, Department of Asian Studies
Areas of research: modern Hebrew language and literature
Phone: 919-962-6823Email: lfried@email.unc.edu
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Director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Professor of Germanic Languages and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies
Areas of research: German-Jewish literature, culture and history
Phone: 919-843-9160 Email: jhess@email.unc.edu
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Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature
Areas of research: Jews in Polish and Russian literature; Russian and East European literature
Phone: 919-962-7553Email: mgl@unc.edu
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Jodi Magness
Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, Department of Religious Studies
Areas of research: early Judaism; archaeology of Palestine
Phone: 919-962-3928
Email: magness@email.unc.edu
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Evyatar Marienberg
E.J. and Sara Evans Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Culture
Areas of research:Rabbinic Judaism and Jewish law; contemporary Catholicism; regulation of sexuality; social history in the Middle Ages; rituals; reception of Vatican II
Phone: 919-962-3939
Email:evyatarm@unc.edu
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Bennie Reynolds
Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew in the Department of Religious Studies
Areas of research: Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls
Phone: 919-843-9117 Email: bhr3@email.unc.edu
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Yaron Shemer
Levine/Sklut Fellow in Jewish Studies, assistant professor of Modern Hebrew Literature and Israeli Culture in the Department of Asian Studies
Areas of research:Ethnic studies, cultural studies, Israeli culture and society, Middle Eastern cinema
Phone: 919-962-5428 Email: yshemer@email.unc.edu
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Ruth von Bernuth
Assistant professor of early modern German Studies (1500-1750) Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Areas of research: German and Yiddish literature, early modern Europe
Email: rvb@email.unc.edu
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