Jewish Studies Faculty

Idit Benmor, MA (Jewish Theological Seminary), Instructor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Research and Teaching Interests: Hebrew Linguistics, Medieval and Modern Hebrew Literature, Zionism and Israel Studies.

Maura Hametz, PhD (Brandeis University), Associate Professor of History. Research and Teaching Interests: Modern European History, International Relations, Italian and Central European History.

Frederick Lubich, PhD (U of California-Santa Barbara), Professor of German. Research and Teaching Interests: 19th and 20th century German and European Literature and Culture, German-Jewish Cultural Studies.

Farideh Goldin, MFA (Old Dominion University), Instructor of English. Research and Teaching Interests: Iranian Jewish Women Writers;  International Jewish Women's Literature; Memoirs.

David Metzger, PhD (U of Missouri), Dean, Honors College, Professor of English. Research and Teaching Interests: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Religion, Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Discourse Studies.

Michael Panitz-- Adjunct Professor of Religion.  Interests:  the history and development of religion;  science and religion;  Rationalist and Mystical trends in religion; intellectual history.

Kathy Pearson, PhD (Emory University). Associate Professor of History. Research and Teaching Interests: Ancient and Medieval European History.

Avi Santo, PhD (University of Texas), Assistant Professor of Communications.  Research and Teaching Interests:  Israeli film and media, representations of Jewish identity in world media.

Heidi Schlipphacke, PhD (University of Washington), Associate Professor of German and European Studies. Research and Teaching Interests: the European Enlightenment, the Legacy of Fascism in Germany, Constructions of Gender, German-Jewish Literature.

Peter Schulman, PhD (Columbia U), Associate Professor of French, Research and Teaching Interests: Jewish cinema, Franco-Jewish relations, Vichy France and the Jews.

Steve Yetiv, PhD (U of Texas), Professor of Political Science. Research and Teaching Interests: Middle East Politics, International Relations Theory, American Foreign Policy.

Associate Faculty

Michael Blumenthal, MFA, JD (Cornell University), Darden Chair of English.  Research and Teaching Interests:  Jewish memoir, modern Jewish literature.

Rabbi Lawrence Forman, D.Div., Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding. Courses: Introduction to Judaism, Hebrew Bible.