Jewish Studies Principal Faculty
Nathaniel Deutsch
- Title
- Director of The Humanities Institute
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Department
- History Department
- Phone 831-459-1924 (Message)
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 515 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Winter 2021: Tue. 10:00am to 1:00pm and 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
Alma Rachel Heckman
- Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Assistant Professor
- Department
- History Department
- Jewish Studies
- Phone 831-459-2465
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 277
- Office Hours Winter 2021: Fridays, noon-2pm PST and by appointment (via Zoom)
- 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
Bruce A Thompson
- Title
- Continuing Lecturer
- Department
- History Department
- Literature Department
- Phone 831-459-3467 (office)
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 276 Stevenson College
- Office Hours Fall 2020: Wednesday @ 1:15-3:15; 3:30--5:30 and by appointment
- 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.