Jewish Studies Faculty

Orit Avishai
Sociology/Women’s Studies, Rose Hill
gender, sexuality, marriage, education, Jewish Orthodoxy

Edward Bristow
History, Lincoln Center
modern Europe, Holocaust and genocide, interfaith dialogue, antisemitism

Doron Ben-Atar
History, Lincoln Center
US history, history of sexuality, the US in the Middle East, modern Israel, antisemitism

Ayala Fader
Anthropology, Lincoln Center
Jewish ethnography, religion, language and culture, gender, childhood, urban anthropology

Emanuel Fiano
Theology, Rose Hill
Syriac Christianity, late ancient intellectual history, Jewish-Christian relations, history and historigraphy of Jewish, Judaizing, and Semitic Christianities

Anne Golomb Hoffman
English, Lincoln Center
modern Hebrew and Jewish literature, psychoanalytic and feminist theory; gender studies; narratology and the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century novel

Karina Hogan
Theology, Lincoln Center
Hebrew Bible and Second Temple period Judaism, especially wisdom and apocalyptic literature, and early biblical interpretation

Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Theology, Rose Hill
ancient Judaism, rabbinic literature, time and calendars, women and gender, religious polemics, Jewish-Christian relations

Russell Pearce
Fordham Law, Lincoln Center
legal profession, legal ethics, ethics and culture, Jewish legal ethics, interreligious dialogue

Nina Rowe
Art History, Rose Hill
medieval art, illuminated manuscripts, medievalism, historiography, Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages

Daniel Soyer
History, Rose Hill
modern Jewish history, American immigration, American Jewish history

Magda Teter
History, Rose Hill/Lincoln Center
medieval and early modern Jewish history, Jewish-Christian relations, early modern Europe, eastern Europe

Affiliated Faculty

Julita Haber
Gabelli School of Business, Rose Hill
organizational behavior and impressions of competency

Eve Keller
English & Honors Program, Rose Hill
Literature, science, and medicine of early modern England, Milton, body studies

Hagit Goral Halperin, Hebrew Instructor in the Department of Modern Lanuages and Literatures

Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Jewish Studies 2022-2023

Fordham Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa

NYPL-Fordham Fellows in Jewish Studies

Jana Schmidt, Bard College (mid-term)
Eyal Ben-Eliahu, University of Haifa (short term)
Debora Kantor, University of Buenos Aires
Saba Nerina Visacovsky, University of Saint Martin, Buenos Aires

CJH-Fordham Fellow in Jewish-Christian Relations
Julia Ng, University of London
Amy Weiss, University of Hartford

Center for Jewish Studies Fellows
Sam Shuman, Davidson College
Lorenzo Colombo, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (graduate fellow)
Andrii Pykalo, University of Kharkiv (graduate fellow)

AAJR-Fordham-NYPL Ukrainian Research Fellows
Sergii Bagro, National Sanctuary Complex of “Kyiv Sophia”
Tetyana Batanova, Vernadsky National Library, Kyiv
Serhiy Hirik, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv
Yurii Kaparulin, Raphael Lemkin Center for Genocide Studies, Kherson State University
Sofia Korn, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv
Eugeny Kotlyar, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts
Khrystyna Semeryn, The National University of Ostroh Academy, Ostroh
Roman Shliakhtych, The Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology
Svitlana Telukha, National Technical University, Kharkiv
Nadia Ufimtseva, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Pavlo Yeremieiev, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv
Anna Mariya Basauri Ziuzina