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Nina Caputo is an Assistant Professor of medieval Jewish history. She received her B.A. and M.A. from UCLA, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on Iberian Jewry in the High Middle Ages, and on Nachmanides's conception of history and community. She is the author of "In the Beginning....Typology, History, and the Unfolding Meaning of Creation in Nachmanides's Exegesis," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society (forthcoming), and "To Kill the Thorns in the Vineyard: A Medieval Rabbi's Argument for Diversity within Unity," in Definir, Maintenir et Remettre en Cause L'Orthodoxie (L'Ecole francaise de Rome, 1999).
Stephen M. Fain
Mitchell Hart is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish and European History. He is also the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA. His book Social Science and the Politics of Jewish Identity is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. His current project is a study of objectivity, evidence, and the professionalization of Jewish Studies.
Marilyn Hoder-Salmon
Nathan Katz is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Florida International University. He is the co-founder/editor of Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, an annual scholarly publication which analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient through contemporary times. He is the author of Who Are the Jews of India? (University of California Press, 2000), The Last Jews of Cochin: Jewish Identity in Hindu India (University of South Carolina Press, 1993), Buddhist Images of Human Perfection (Motilal Banarsidass, 1989) and ten other books. He was a member of the eight-person delegation of scholars and rabbis who met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his palace in Dharamsala, India, in 1990, for extensive dialogue. This historic event was popularized by Rodger Kamenetz in The Jew in the Lotus, a narrative in which Dr. Katz figures prominently. He was Coordinator of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of South Florida before becoming the first Director of FIU's Jewish Studies Program. He has won four Fulbright awards and has been named a "master teacher" by the Florida Center for Teachers for an unprecedented seven years in a row. He won a Teaching Incentive Program award in 1994. He is coordinating FIU's Israel programs and teaches "Jews in Asia" among other subjects.
Frederick Kaufman
Erik W. Larson received his Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at New York University in 1995. His dissertation was the Greek translation of the Book of Enoch, one of the most important of the Jewish apocalypses. He is a member of the international team of scholars editing the Dead Sea Scrolls and has contributed to the official publication series, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert. Most of his research at the present time revolves around the Scrolls and their relevance for Second Temple Judaism.
Abraham Lavender
Asher Z. Milbauer
Meri-Jane Rochelson is an Associate Professor of English and Acting Director of the Women's Studies Center. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. She edited and wrote the introduction to a new edition of Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto (Wayne State University Press, 1998). She is the author of numerous articles on Zangwill, Amy Levy, and other topics in Anglo-Jewish Literature. Her current project is a full-length study of Zangwill as a literary figure and political activist in the period 1890-1926.
Oren Baruch Stier is an assistant professor of Religious Studies. He received his BA from Princeton University, and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, specializing in modern and contemporary Jewish religion, thought, and culture. Dr. Stier's current research focuses on the contemporary culture of Holocaust remembrance and his book, Memory Matters: Contemporary Holocaust Memorial Culture, is being prepared under advance contract with Princeton University Press. Stier's other research interests include contemporary Hasidism and South African Jewry, with a focus on the associations made between the Holocaust and apartheid in South Africa. He teaches a wide range of courses related to modern and contemporary Judaism.
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