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∙ Yaakov Ariel ∙ Jonathan Boyarin ∙ Christopher Browning
∙ Erin Carlston ∙ Flora Cassen∙ Marcie Cohen Ferris
∙ Jonathan Hess ∙ Joseph Lam ∙ David Lambert ∙ Jodi Magness
∙ Evyatar Marienberg ∙ Rosa Perelmuter ∙ Yaron Shemer
∙ Hanna Sprintzik ∙ Ruth von Bernuth
Yaakov Ariel
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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Jonathan Boyarin
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.edufull bio
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Christopher Browning
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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Erin G. Carlston
Associate Professor of English, Department of English
Areas of research: comparative European and American modernisms; Jewish studies; gender and sexuality studies
Phone: 919-962-4037 Email: carlston@email.unc.edu
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Flora Cassen
MA and Sonja van der Horst Fellow in Jewish History and Culture, assistant professor, Department of
History
Areas of research: Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, European history from 10th - 18th centuries
Email: fcassen@email.unc.edu
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Marcie Cohen Ferris
Associate 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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Jonathan M. Hess
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: 919-962-4866 Email: jmhess@email.unc.edu
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David Lambert
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, Department of Religious Studies
Areas of research: Hebrew Bible; ancient Israelite religious practices and society; late Second Temple Judaism; the history of biblical interpretation; development of religious terminology; Western notions of the self and interiority; history of Jewish thought
Phone: 919-962-5666
Email: dalambe@email.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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Rosa Perelmuter
Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Areas of research: Colonial Spanish American literature, contemporary Spanish American narrative, Latino literature and culture, and Jewish Cuba.
Phone: (919) 604-5858
Email: rpperelm@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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Joseph Lam
Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew, Department of
Religious Studies
Areas of research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern context; linguistic approaches to Biblical Hebrew; comparative Semitic grammar; ritual and cult in the ancient Near East; metaphor in religious language
Phone: (919) 962-5666 Email: jclam@email.unc.edu
Hanna Sprintzik
Lecturer in Modern Hebrew, Department of
Asian Studies
Email: hannasp@email.unc.edu
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