Director
Steven
T. Katz, Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Professor in Jewish Holocaust Studies; Director, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies; and Professor of Religion.
Interests: Jewish thought; Holocaust studies; philosophy of religion; comparative mysticism. (Religion)
judaics@bu.edu
Faculty
Shulamit
Ben-Natan, Lecturer in Hebrew. (Modern Foreign
Languages and Literatures)
shulib@bu.edu
Alejandro F. Botta, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible.
Interests: Elephantine papyri, Aramaic-Demotic Interrelationships, The Book of Chronicles, Latin-American Biblical. (School of Theology)
abbotta@bu.edu
Paula
Fredriksen, Professor of Religion, William
Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture.
Interests: The social and intellectual history of ancient
Christianity from the Late Second Temple period to the fall
of the Western Roman Empire; conversion; apocalypticism;
Paul and his interpreters; and Jewish/Gentile relations
in Late Antiquity. (Religion)
augfred@bu.edu
Abigail
Gillman, Assistant Professor of German and
Hebrew Convener (division head) of Hebrew;
Interests: German Jewish literature and thought; Austrian
literature; modernism; memory (literary, religious, cultural);
Biblical and Rabbinic texts; Bible translation; modern Hebrew
literature. (Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures)
agillman@bu.edu
Nancy
Harrowitz, Associate Professor of Italian Convener
(division head) of Italian. Interests: Science and literature;
fascism; the Holocaust in Italy; the Holocaust in literature
and film. (Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures)
nharrow@bu.edu
Peter
Hawkins, Professor of Religion and Director,
The Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts.
Interests: The
literary “afterlife” of Jewish and Christian
scriptures.
psh@bu.edu
Paula Kabalo, Schusterman Visiting Professor in Israel Studies, Lecturer Ben Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Interests: the link and the conflict between theory, utopia and reality in Ben-Gurlon's social Policy during the first decade of Israel's independence; the connections and relations between the leader and the public; and the call for voluntarism and pioneering and its outcomes.
Jonathan
Klawans, Associate Professor of Religion.
Interests: Religious literature of Judaism in late antiquity;
impurity and sin as expressed in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead
Sea Scrolls, Rabbinic literature and the New Testament;
the theological significance of sacrifice in the Hebrew
Bible and ancient Judaism. (Religion)
jklawans@bu.edu
Shalva
Klement, Lecturer in Hebrew. (Modern Foreign
Languages and Literatures)
sklement@bu.edu
Deeana
Klepper, Assistant Professor of Religion.
Interests: medieval and early modern European religious
history; the place of Bible in medieval culture; the social
contexts of mysticism; Christian-Jewish relations and other
cross-cultural religious encounters; and the history of
science. (Religion)
dklepper@bu.edu
Hillel Levine, Professor of Sociology and
Religion.
Interests: Holocaust studies; Eastern European Jewish history;
American Jewish history and sociology.
hlevine@bu.edu
Diana
Lobel, Assistant Professor of Religion.
Interests: Classical and medieval Jewish studies; comparative
philosophy; Islamic thought and the Judeo-Arabic tradition;
Jewish and Islamic mysticism and philosophy; the impact
of Sufi mysticism on Jewish thought. (Religion)
dnlobel@bu.edu
Katheryn
Pfisterer Darr, Associate Professor of Hebrew
Bible. (School of Theology)
kdarr@bu.edu
Elie
Wiesel, University Professor; Andrew W. Mellon
Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Philosophy and
Religion; awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
Interests: The Holocaust; literature of memory.
Michael
Zank, Associate Professor of Religion.
Interests: Philosophy of religion; modern Jewish thought.
(Religion)
mzank@bu.edu
Associated Faculty
Alicia
Borinsky, University Professor and Professor
of Spanish. Literary scholar, fiction writer, and poet.
(Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures)
borinsky@bu.edu
Charles
Dellheim, Chairman, Department of History and
Professor of History. Interests: modern European cultural;
Jewish culture. (History)
dellheim@bu.edu
Leslie
Epstein, Professor of English and Director,
Creative Writing Program. Interests: Fiction writing; film
criticism. (English)
leslieep@bu.edu
Aaron
Garrett, Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
Interests:
Early Modern Philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; Aristotelianism.
(Philosophy)
garrett@bu.edu
Thomas
F. Glick, Professor of History;
Interests: medieval history; history of Spain; the transfer
of ideas, institutions, and techniques from the Islamic
to the Christian world in the Middle Ages. (History)
tglick@bu.edu
Paul
Goldberg, Professor of Geoarchaeology.
Interests: archaeological sites; paleoenvironments; Quaternary
landscape evolution in the deserts of Israel and Sinai.
(Archaeology)
paulberg@bu.edu
Michael
Grodin, Professor of Health Law, Bioethics
and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public
Health.
Interests: The relationship of health and human rights;
bioethics; the philosophy of psychiatry.
grodin@bu.edu
Neil
Hecht, Director, Institute of Jewish Law and
Professor of Law.
Interests: Jewish law; evidence; property. (School of Law)
nshecht@bu.edu
Pnina
Lahav, Professor of Law.
Interests: Constitutional law; First Amendment jurisprudence;
comparative law. (School of Law)
plahav@bu.edu
Richard
Landes, Professor of History.
Interests: Medieval history; millennial studies. (History)
rlandes@bu.edu
Jeffrey
Mehlman, University Professor and Professor
of French. Literary critic and a historian of ideas. (Modern
Foreign Languages and Literatures)
jmehlman@bu.edu
David
I. Mostofsky, Professor of Psychology.
Interests: the Brain; Behavior; Cognition Program. (Psychology)
dmostof@bu.edu
Rabbi
Joseph Polak, Rabbi of the Jewish Community and Director, Boston University Florence and Chafetz Hillel House.
rjp@bu.edu
Sharon Portnoff, Instructor in Writing. BA, St. John's College (Annapolis); EdM, Harvard University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Jewish Theological Seminary.
Interests: Jewish theology and philosophy, Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Responses, Modern Jewish Experience. (CAS, Writing Program)
portnoff@bu.edu
Michael
Prince, Assistant Dean, Department of English;
Associate Professor of English; and Director, Writing Program.
Interests: Eighteenth-century literature; intellectual history.
(English)
mprince@bu.edu
Adam
B. Seligman, Professor of Religion; Director,
CURA's Project on Toleration and Research Associate, Institute
for the Study of Economic Culture.
Interests: the problem of religion and toleration. (Religion)
seligman@bu.edu
Jonathan
Zatlin, Assistant Professor of History.
Interests: modern German and European history; interplay
between racism and economic shortage in Soviet-style regimes,
industrial espionage, and the history of money.
jzatlin@bu.edu
Michael
Zell, Associate Professor of Art History.
Interests: Baroque and Eighteenth-Century art; European
art and architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
(Art History)
mzell@bu.edu