Center for Judaic Studies
Faculty & Staff
Learn about our faculty members' academic backgrounds and interests, our affiliated faculty and staff, and find out how to contact them.
FACULTY
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Jeanne Abrams
Professor of Jewish History & Director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and Beck Archives
(CJS & Penrose Library)
Jewish History of the West; Jewish Womens' History; History of Medicine in the West
Phone: 303-871-3016 and 303-871-2977
Email: jabrams@du.edu
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Sari Havis
Lecturer and Director of Hebrew Program
(CJS & Dept of Languages and Literatures)
Hebrew language pedagogy; Israeli cinema; Israeli culture and society; Israeli identity and Holocaust Studies
Phone: 303-871-2343
Email: sari.havis@du.edu
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Sarah Pessin, Director
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Judaic Studies
(CJS & Dept of Philosophy)
Emil and Eva Hecht Chair in Judaic Studies
Director, Center for Judaic Studies
Jewish Philosophy; Medieval Philosophy (comparative Jewish, Islamic, Christian); Neoplatonism; Modern Jewish Philosophy; Post-Holocaust theology and ethics
Phone: 303-871-7731
Email: spessin@du.edu
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Adam Rovner
Associate Professor of English and Jewish Literature
(CJS & Dept of English)
Jewish and English Literature; Trans-national literature; Translation and Translation Theory; Jewish Territorialism; Holocaust Literature; American Jewish and Israeli Literature
Phone: 303-871-2861
Email: adam.rovner@du.edu
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Alison Schofield
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies
(CJS & Dept of Religious Studies)
Judaism; religious theory; Dead Sea Scrolls; sacred space; exile and diaspora; gender and Judaism; Bible; Second Temple Judaism
Phone: 303-871-2752
Email: aschofie@du.edu
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Jonathan Sciarcon
Assistant Professor of Jewish History
(CJS & Dept of History)
Jewish History; Middle East history; Iraqi Jewish history; history of Jewish women's education in Iraq; Iraqi Jewish identity; Ottoman history; US-Israeli Relations
Phone: 303-871-2954
Email: jonathan.sciarcon@du.edu
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VISITING PROFESSOR
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Dr. Menachem Mor
SCHUSTERMAN VISITING ISRAELI PROFESSOR, 2011-2013
Menachem Mor
University of Haifa
AFFILIATED FACULTY
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Pamela M. Eisenbaum
Associate professor of biblical studies and Christian origins, Iliff School of Theology
Phone: 303-765-3167
Email: peisenbaum@iliff.edu
Education: PhD, Iliff School of Theology -
Amy Erickson
Instructor of Hebrew Bible, Iliff School of Theology
Phone: 303-744-1287
Email: aerick26@du.edu
Education: PhD candidate, Princeton Theological Seminary -
Arthur Gilbert
Associate professor, Korbel School of International Studies
Phone: 303-871-2545
Email: argilber@du.edu
Education: PhD, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University -
Allison Horsley
Assistant professor of dramatic literature, Department of Theatre
Phone: 303-871-3161
Email: allison.horsley@du.edu
Education: MFA in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, Yale University -
Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt
Associate Professor
(Dept of History)
Modern European and French History; History and Memory; Holocaust History; History and Legacy of Nazi Art Looting
Phone: 303-871-2947
Email: elizabeth.karlsgodt@du.edu
News: Beth Karlsgodt recently gave a lecture for the Humanities Institute discussing the historical roots of today's disputes by examining shifts in cultural property norms since the Nazi plunder of European art during World War II. This recent history elucidates current social and political trends, including an acute and transnational concern for heritage, variously defined, in our globalizing era.
Read Beth Karlsgodt's blog entries about her recent travel to Nazi camps in Europe.
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Lydia Gil Keff
Lecturer
(Dept of Languages and Literatures)
Spanish Language and Literature; Memory Studies; Holocaust Literature; Latin American Jewish Literature; Holocaust in Latin America; Jewish-Latino and Jewish-Latin American literature in translation
Phone: 303-871-7844
Email: lydia.gil@du.edu
Professor Gil Keff just returned from presenting on "Digital Storytelling in Latin American Jewish Literature and Culture Courses" at the 16th Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) Conference, hosted by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas-Austin (9-11 June 2013). Lydia also recently published an article: "A Voice to the Scream: Writing the Shoah in Mauricio Rosencof's THE LETTERS THAT NEVER CAME," in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 42.1, (2009): 43-54.
Education: PhD, Spanish/Latin American literature, University of Texas at Austin -
G. Kristian Miccio
Associate professor, Sturm College of Law
Phone: 303-871-6361
Email: kmiccio@du.edu
Education: LLM, Columbia Law School, Columbia University
JD, Antioch School of Law, Antioch University
MA, public administration, Rockefeller College, University of New York
BA, Marymount College of Fordham University -
Gregory A. Robbins
Associate professor, Department of Religious Studies
Phone: 303-871-2751
Email: grobbins@du.edu
Education: PhD, Duke University -
Eliana Schonberg
Director of the University Writing Center
Phone: 303-871-7431
Email: eliana.schonberg@du.edu
Education: PhD, English, University of Texas, Austin -
CJS EMERITUS
Rabbi Stanley M. Wagner, of blessed memory
Founding director, emeritus
News: Rabbi Wagner is co-author of the five-volume Onkelos on the Torah: Understanding the Bible Text (Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem/New York) with Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin.Selected materials from their work were incorporated into the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations' new and increasingly popular Shnayim Mikra program, in which each weekly portion of the Torah's current book is studied online. The goal of integrating these materials is to encourage people to increase their study of Onkelos, an important Bible commentator and translator.
In 2010, Rabbi Stanley Wagner published an essay on Onkelos, "Translation, Midrash, and Commentary Through the Eyes of Onkelos," The Jewish Bible Quarterly, volume 38, number 3, 151, July-September 2010, pp. 191-201.
STAFF
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Amy Balogh
HAI Program developer and archivist
Phone: 303-871-3013
Email: amy.balogh@iliff.edu
Education: PhD Candidate, Biblical Interpretation, Hebrew Bible, Iliff School of Theology
MA, Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, Jewish Theological Seminary
BA, Biblical Studies, Patten University -
Meaghan Burns
Program development coordinator
Phone: 303-871-4633
Email: meaghan.burns@du.edu
Education: MA, education, University of Denver
BA, English literature, University of Colorado-Boulder -
Adam Westbrook
Assistant to the Director
Phone: 303-871-3021
Email: adam.westbrook@du.edu
Education: MA, Religious studies, University of Denver
BA, Sociology, Ithaca College
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Thyria K. Wilson
Archives specialist
Assistant to the director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and Beck Archives
Phone: 303-871-3012
Email: twilson@du.edu
Education: JD, MLIS, University of Denver