Jewish Studies Principal Faculty
Nathaniel Deutsch
- Title
- Director of the Institute for Humanities Research
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
- Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Department
- History Department
- Phone
- Office Location 331 Humanities 1, 515 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Fall 2017: TBD
- 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 277 Stevenson College
- Office Hours Fall 2017: Friday 12pm-2pm
- 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
- Office Location 276 Stevenson College
- Office Hours Fall 2017: Monday and Wednesday @ 2:30--4:30
- 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.
