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Steering Committee Members
Jonathan Hess ∙ Yaakov Ariel
Jonathan Boyarin ∙ Christopher Browning Erin Carlston ∙ Carl Ernst
Marcie Cohen Ferris ∙ Luceil Friedman Cary Levine ∙ Jodi Magness
Rosa Perelmuter ∙ Bennie Reynolds
Yaron Shemer
∙ Ruth von Bernuth

 

UNC Jewish Studies Faculty

Yaakov ArielJonathan BoyarinChristopher Browning
Erin CarlstonMarcie Cohen FerrisLuceil Friedman
Jonathan Hess Madeline LevineJodi Magness

Bennie ReynoldsYaron Shemer 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





 
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; rhetonics of time and space.
Phone:
919-962-3937 Email: jboyarin@email.unc.edu





 
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




 
Erin G. Carlston
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




 
Marcie Cohen Ferris
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



 
Luceil Friedman
Lecturer in Hebrew language, Department of Asian Studies
Areas of research: modern Hebrew language and literature
Phone:
919-962-6823Email: lfried@email.unc.edu




 
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:
919-843-9160 Email: jhess@email.unc.edu






 
Madeline Levine
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







 
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






 

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


 

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

 

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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