Faculty
Liora Halperin, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, published an article, "A Murder in the Grove: Conceptions of Justice in an Early Zionist Colony" in the Winter 2015 issue of the Journal of Social History.Prof. Halperin gave an
Lucy Chester, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, presented her research at the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University in October. Entitled, "'The Eyes of Islam are Watching': Transcolonial
Sam Boyd, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, will be giving a presentatation of his work-in-progress "A Brief History of the Phrase 'King of Kings': Political, Religious, and Philological Considerations." Dr. Boyd
Sam Boyd, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, received a 2016 Society for Biblical Literature Regional Scholars award. Dr. Boyd was nominated for the award by the Rocky Mountains-Great Plains regional selection committee of
David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, had a busy summer of globetrotting. He served as scholar-in-residence for the Helix Project that took
It is with great pleasure that I write to welcome students, faculty, community members, and friends near and far to a new academic year in the Program in Jewish Studies. As the new Director of PJS, I wish to extend to you the kind of warm
Associate Professor and Associate Graduate Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Davide Stimilli has recently published the article “L’énigme de Warburg,” on the German-Jewish art and cultural historian
Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies, published an article “Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Émigré Anglophone Writers from the USSR,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction (Edinburgh University Press
Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently presented on panels at the University of Denver and the Illif School of Theology on “Religion and the Academy” and “
This past summer Liora Halperin, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, taught two community classes, a 5-part intensive Modern Jewish History course for Denver Jewish community leaders through the Wexner