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Permanent Faculty
The full-time, permanent faculty of the Judaic Studies Program are listed below. For descriptions of their interests and accomplishments, click on their names.

Steven D. Fraade steven.fraade@yale.edu
Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies.

Paul Franks paul.franks@yale.edu
Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy.

Christine Hayes christine.hayes@yale.edu
Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Classical Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies.

Paula E. Hyman paula.hyman@yale.edu
Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Departments of History and Religious Studies.

Hindy Najman hindy.najman@yale.edu
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies.

Ivan G. Marcus ivan.marcus@yale.edu
Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History in the Departments of History and Religious Studies.

Eliyahu (Elli) Stern eliyahu.stern@yale.edu
Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Religious Studies and History in the Departments of Religious Studies and History.

Emeritus Faculty

Benjamin Harshav benjamin.harshav@yale.edu
Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Language & Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Advisory Committee
In addition to the above, the following serve on the Advisory Committee for 2010-2011:

Leslie Brisman
Karl Young Professor of English

Maria Rosa Menocal
R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese & Director of the Whitney Humanities Center

Maurice Samuels
Professor of French

Steven B. Smith
Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science; Master, Branford College

Nanette Stahl
Curator, Judaica Collection

Laura Wexler
Associate Professor Women's & Gender Studies & American Studies

Robert R. Wilson
Hoober Professor, Religious Studies; Professor, Divinity School

Visiting Faculty
For academic year 2011-2012:

Robert Brody (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem )
Jacob Perlow Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies & Religious Studies (AY 2011-2012)

Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University)
Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies & Religious Studies (Fall 2011)

Oded Irshai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies & Religious Studies (Spring 2012)

Senior Research Scholar in Judaic Studies

Margaret Olin margaret.olin@yale.edu

Postdoctoral Associates in Judaic Studies

Liora Halperin (2011-2012) liora.halperin@yale.edu (Ph. D. University of California, Los Angeles), Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Judaic Studies

Jonathan Kaplan (2010-2012) jonathan.kaplan@yale.edu(Ph. D. Harvard University), Jacob and HildaBlaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Judaic Studies

Visiting Fellows

Peter Cole (AY 2011-2012)

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