Faculty
Fordham’s top-notch Jewish studies faculty members are engaged scholars, award-winning authors and speakers, editors of prestigious academic journals, officers of professional organizations, recipients of fellowships and grants, and dedicated teachers and mentors.
Their expertise covers many disciplines, eras, and communities, representing the full range of Jewish studies.
Ayala Fader
Anthropology, Lincoln Center
Jewish ethnography, religion, language and culture, gender, childhood, urban anthropology
Daniel Soyer
History, Rose Hill
modern Jewish history, American immigration, American Jewish history
Doron Ben-Atar
History, Lincoln Center
US history, history of sexuality, the US in the Middle East, modern Israel, antisemitism
Edward Bristow
History, Lincoln Center
modern Europe, Holocaust and genocide, interfaith dialogue, antisemitism
Emanuel Fiano
Theology, Rose Hill
Syriac Christianity, late ancient intellectual history, Jewish-Christian relations, history and historiography of Jewish, Judaizing, and Semitic Christianities
Erez DeGolan
Assistant Professor Ph.D., Columbia University
Classical Rabbinic Judaism, 718-817-3240 | [email protected]
Karina Hogan
Theology, Lincoln Center
Hebrew Bible and Second Temple period Judaism, especially wisdom and apocalyptic literature, and early biblical interpretation
Ki-Eun Jang
Assistant Professor Ph.D., New York University
Bible in Global Cultures, Hebrew Bible, Ancient Middle Eastern Studies, [email protected]
Magda Teter
History, Rose Hill/Lincoln Center
medieval and early modern Jewish history, Jewish-Christian relations, early modern Europe, eastern Europe
Nina Rowe
Art History, Rose Hill
medieval art, illuminated manuscripts, medievalism, historiography, Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages
Orit Avishai
Sociology/Women’s Studies, Rose Hill
gender, sexuality, marriage, education, Jewish Orthodoxy
Russell Pearce
Fordham Law, Lincoln Center
legal profession, legal ethics, ethics and culture, Jewish legal ethics, interreligious dialogue
Affiliated Faculty
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 Languages and Cultures Department
Jessica Lang
Ph.D. Brandeis University in English and American Literature
Dean of Arts and Sciences history, Early American fiction, Jewish American and Holocaust literature
Julita Haber
Gabelli School of Business, Rose Hill
organizational behavior and impressions of competency
Emeriti
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
Edward Bristow
History, Lincoln Center
Modern Europe, Holocaust and genocide, interfaith dialogue, antisemitism
Russell Pearce
Fordham Law, Lincoln Center
Legal profession, legal ethics, ethics and culture, Jewish legal ethics, interreligious dialogue