Results for "Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies"

From its inception as a concentration to its present status as an integrative major, the Jewish Studies program at The University of Texas has been designed to reflect the dynamic complexity of Jewish histories, literatures, populations, traditions, and transformations wherever they have existed. As a richly diversified field, Jewish Studies at UT has embraced a wide range of interrelated studies including history, archaeology, languages, literature, textual analysis, ritual studies, sociology, art, and religious thought. This diversity of ideas and methods constructs natural bridges for students across the university to enter into dialogue with Jewish culture and, through such conversations, to reflect on their own disciplines or traditions. Thanks to a generous grant from the Schusterman Foundation, the newly configured Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas will undertake a broad program of enrichment and expansion involving the hiring of new and distinguished faculty in core subjects and in the Center’s area of focus, the study of Jewish life in the Americas. Even as it strengthens its curriculum, the Center will reach beyond the classroom through the support of University and community-wide events, support of visiting scholars who wish to use the University’s rich Judaica collections, as well as through lectures, conferences, exhibits, and concerts displaying the full range of Jewish culture. It will become an internationally recognized crossroads for Jewish Studies scholars.

Website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/scjs/

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Marion Bodian

Affiliated Departments:
History, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Research Interests:

Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions; post-Expulsion Sephardic Jewry; Jews and the Reformation

Pascale R Bos

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Center for European Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, Germanic Studies, Humanities Program, Plan II Honors Program, Religious Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Research Interests:

Holocaust history; Holocaust representations (literature, film, art, monuments); Holocaust and gender; Holocaust and (trans-generational) trauma; Genocide Studies; Memory studies; Sexual Violence in armed conflict;…

David Crew

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, History, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Research Interests:

History of popular culture and consumerism in twentieth-century Germany and Europe, the history and politics of memory, the visual history of Germany in the twentieth century, with a specific focus upon photographic…

Ariel E Dulitzky

Affiliated Departments:
Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Law, School of Law
Research Interests:

Professor Dulitzky is a leading expert in human rights in Latin America, particularly on the inter-American human rights system and enforced disappearances. He has published extensively on human rights, the inter-…

David J Eaton

Affiliated Departments:
Asian Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for European Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Geography / Environment, Middle Eastern Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, South Asia Institute, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, College of Natural Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, LBJ School of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Research Interests:

Systems analysis, environmental and energy policy, nonprofit management, sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, prevention of pollution
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Karen Grumberg

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Research Interests:

Gothic and global Gothic literature, Modern Hebrew literature, American Jewish literature, comparative literature

John Hoberman

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Germanic Studies
Research Interests:

European culture and intellectual history; Sportwissenschaft; the history of ideas about race; sport and politics

Tony Keddie

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Religious Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Research Interests:

New Testament and Christian Origins | Second Temple Judaism | Hellenistic Judaism | Apocalypticism | Archaeology of Religion | Roman and Byzantine Archaeology | Sacred Economics | Religion, Class, and Empire | Jewish…