Jewish Studies Principal Faculty

Nathaniel Deutsch

  • Title
    • Director of the Center for Jewish Studies (on leave 2022-2023)
    • Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Phone
    831-459-1924 (Message)
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, 515 Humanities 1
  • Office Hours Spring 2022: Tue. 11:00am to 1:00pm by appointment via Zoom.
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States

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Alma Rachel Heckman

  • Title
    • Jewish Studies Undergraduate Program Director, Acting Director of the Center for Jewish Studies: 2022-2023
    • Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • History Department
    • Jewish Studies
  • Phone
    831-459-2465
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Stevenson College Academic Building, 277
  • Office Hours Winter 2023: Thursdays 2-4pm and by appointment
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
  • Summary of Expertise

    Modern Jewish History

    Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

     

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Bruce A Thompson

  • Title
    • Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
    • Continuing Lecturer
  • Department
    • History Department
    • Literature Department
  • Phone
    831-459-3467 (office)
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Stevenson College Academic Building, 276 Stevenson College
  • Office Hours Fall 2022: Monday and Wednesday @ 2:45-4:15
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
  • Summary of Expertise

    European history, Jewish history and literature.

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