Jewish Studies
2012-13 General Catalog
Department of History
201 Humanities
(831) 459-2982
http://jewishstudies.ucsc.edu
Principal Faculty
Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies
Feminist oral history and memoir; feminist pedagogy; African-American feminist history; queer studies; feminist Jewish studies; feminist critical race studies
Murray Baumgarten, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Neufeld-Levin Co-Chair
Dickens, Victorian literature and culture, the Bible, translation, modern Jewish writing, the Holocaust
Dorian Bell, Assistant Professor of Literature
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature and intellectual history; histories of empire and anti-Semitism; literature and science; film studies; digital humanities
Margaret Brose, Emerita Professor of Literature
Mark Cioc, Professor of History
German history, modern European history; environmental history
Paula Daccarett, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Jewish modernity, Mediterranean Jewish history, Latin American Jewish history, Jewish women's history, Levantine cultures/spaces
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of Literature and History
Hebrew Bible; rabbinic literature; Jewish mysticism; Hasidism; Eastern European Jewish life; ethnography
Barbara Epstein, Professor of History of Consciousness
Recently working in Minsk collecting testimonies in Yiddish and other languages on Jewish experiences during WWII
Gildas Hamel, SOE Lecturer in History and Classical Languages
History of Judaism and Christianity; Hebrew and Greek Bible; classical languages
Johnathan Levitow, Lecturer in Yiddish
Yiddish language and literature
Peter Kenez, Emeritus Professor of History, Neufeld-Levin Co-Chair
Russian history, Eastern Europe, 20th-century Europe, Soviet film, Jewish social history, the Holocaust
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Lecturer in Hebrew
Hebrew language and culture; biblical Hebrew syntax and semantics; the Hebrew Bible; Jewish thought; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition and bilingualism
Dan Selden, Professor of Literature
Research on Classical and Hellenistic Judaism and medieval Jewish mysticism
Bruce Thompson, Continuing Lecturer in History
European intellectual and cultural history, French history, Jewish intellectual and cultural history, British and Irish history, history of cinema, history of espionage, environmental history
Faculty Advisers
Murray Baumgarten, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of Literature and History
Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History
Gildas Hamel, Security of Employment Lecturer in History
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Lecturer in Hebrew
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Raoul Birnbaum, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China
A. Hunter Bivens, Assistant Professor of Literature
Twentieth- and 21st-century German literature and film; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalysis, lyric poetry; literary realism; the novel
Ryan Coonerty, Lecturer in Politics
American political history, law and international relations
Maria Evangelatou, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Medieval visual culture, with emphasis on Byzantium and its periphery; manuscript illumination, Marian cult and iconography; ancient Greek and Roman visual culture; Islamic visual culture; gender studies
Laurel Fox, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions
Robert Goff, Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Margo Hendricks, Emerita Professor of Literature
Marc Mangel, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially the evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity; quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational aspects of disease
William Nickell, Lecturer in Literature
Leo Tolstoy; Russian cultural history; 1920's-30's Soviet Russia; Russian/Soviet Film; Russian language and pedagogy
Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature
Eighteenth- and early 19th-century German literature; Goethe; Romantic fiction; landscape and landscape aesthetics; xenophobia in Germany
Paul Roth, Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy of social science, philosophy and sociology of science, epistemology, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of history
Avi Tchamni, Lecturer in Music
Composition, Jewish music, computer and electronic music, Middle Eastern music, theory, algorithmic music and generative musical syntax, orchestration, ethnomusicology
Revised: 8/13/12
