Jewish Studies
2017-18 General Catalog
Department of History
201 Humanities
(831) 459-2982
http://jewishstudies.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
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, Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
Dorian Bell, Associate 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
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History, Neufeld-Levin Chair
Modern Jewish history; Eastern European Jewish culture; ethnography, Hasidism; history of religions
Barbara Epstein, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness
Gildas Hamel, Lecturer Emeritus in History and Classical Languages
Alma Heckman, Assistant Professor of History
Jewish History in North Africa and the Middle East; minorities in empire and colonialism; nationalism and radicalism; transnational Jewish political activism; syncretism; labor history
Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus of History
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Lecturer Emerita in Hebrew
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
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History
Alma Heckman, Assistant Professor of History
Bruce Thompson, Continuing Lecturer in History
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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, Associate 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
Robert Goff, Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Margo Hendricks, Professor Emerita of Literature
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, Quine, philosophy of history, philosophy and sociology of science, epistemology, history of analytic philosophy
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: 09/01/17
