People – Jewish Studies

Title
- Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Department
- History Department
Campus Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 331 Humanities 1
Office Hours
- Winter 2025: Tuesdays, 11:30pm to 1:30pm, email in advance to set up in-person or Zoom meeting during office hours

Title
- Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
Department
- History Department
Campus Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 331 Humanities 1
Office Hours
- Winter 2025: Tuesdays, 11:30pm to 1:30pm, email in advance to set up in-person or Zoom meeting during office hours
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Jewish Studies and Judaism
Summary of Expertise
- Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
Department
- History Department
Phone
- 831-459-2465
Campus Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 277
Office Hours
- On leave for AY 2025-2026
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Jewish Studies and Judaism
Summary of Expertise
- Modern Jewish History
  
  Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Title
- Associate Professor
Department
- History Department
Campus Email
- akreps@ucsc.edu
Website
- Personal website
Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 232
Office Hours
- Fall 2025: Thursdays 12-1 in person.
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- Ancient World / Classics
Summary of Expertise
- Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, History of the Ancient Near East, New Religious Movements, Methods and Theories for the Study of Religion

Title
- Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
Department
- History Department
Phone
- 831-459-3467 (office)
Campus Email
- brucet@ucsc.edu
Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 276 Stevenson College
Office Hours
- Fall 2025: Monday and Wednesday @ 2:45-4:45, in person; Tuesday and Thursday afternoon by appointment

Title
- Associate Professor
Department
- Literature Department
Campus Email
- dbell1@ucsc.edu
Website
- Academia.edu page
- Curriculum vitae
Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Room 227
Office Hours
- Fall 2025: Zoom office hours Mon. 2-3:00pm–email for appt
Summary of Expertise
- 19th-21st century French culture and history; histories of empire, race, and antisemitism; critical race and whiteness studies; racial capitalism; postcolonial theory; spatial theory; globalization and migration; digital culture; science fiction; film studies

Title
- Associate Professor
Department
- Literature Department
Phone
- 831-459-4037 (Office)
Campus Email
- abivens@ucsc.edu
Website
- Epic and Exile: Novels of the German Popular Front, 1933-1945
- Publications
Office Location
- Cowell College Academic Building, 110
Office Hours
- T 11:30am-2:30pm and by appointment
Faculty Areas of Expertise
- German Studies
Summary of Expertise
- Twentieth and twenty-first century German literature, culture, and film; Marxism and critical theory; socialist realism and proletarian literature; modernism and left avant-gardes; novel theory

Title
- Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English & Comparative Literature
Department
- Literature Department
Phone
- 831-459-2566 (Office)
Campus Email
- dickens@ucsc.edu