David Berger 
(PhD, Columbia University)

Ruth & I. Lewis Gordon Professor of Jewish History and Dean

Jewish intellectual history; Jewish-Christian relations; Messianism and Messianic movements; Jewish attitudes toward general culture.

Jeffrey S. Gurock 
(PhD, Columbia University)

Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History

American Jewish history, with emphasis on social and religious history; modern Jewish history. 

Mordechai Cohen
(PhD, Yeshiva University)

Professor of Bible and Associate Dean

Medieval biblical interpretation; connections with Arabic poetics and medieval Hebrew poetry; Muslim jurisprudence and Jewish legal exegesis; modern literary approaches to the Bible. 

Elazar Hurvitz 
(PhD, Yeshiva University)

Professor of Biblical and Talmudic Literature; Dr. Samuel Belkin Chair in Judaic Studies

Halakhic and midrashic literature; Geonic literature; Genizah research. 

Jonathan Dauber 
(PhD, New York University)

Assistant Professor of Jewish Mysticism

Kabbalah and Hasidism. 

Arthur Hyman 
(PhD, Harvard University)

Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy

History of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; modern Jewish thought; Maimonides; Jewish ethics.
 

Barry Eichler 
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania)

Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies

Application of Mesopotamian literature to the study of the Bible. 

Ephraim Kanarfogel 
(PhD, Yeshiva University)

E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History

Medieval Jewish history; history of halakhah; history of educational theory and practice; intellectual cross-currents between Ashkenaz and Sefarad; pietism and mysticism in rabbinic culture.
 

Yaakov Elman 
(PhD, New York University)

Professor of Jewish Studies

Tosefta: structure, aims, and relationship to the Talmudim; rabbinic theology; unfolding systems of rabbinic legal exegesis.  

Daniel Rynhold
(PhD, London School of Economics)

Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Philosophy

Modern Jewish Philosophy.  

Steven Fine 
(PhD, Hebrew University)

Professor of Jewish History

Jewish life in Greco-Roman times; art history. 

Richard C. Steiner 
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania)

Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures

Biblical and mishnaic Hebrew; Aramaic dialectology; Semitic linguistics; Hebrew linguistics in the Middle Ages.

Daniel Tsadik
(PhD, Yale University)

Assistant Professor of Sephardic and Iranian Studies

History of the Jews in Islamic lands; Modern Iran; Shi'i Islam; Iran's religious minorities; Iran's Jewry.

Shawn Z. Aster 
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania)

Assistant Professor of Bible

Hebrew Bible; Mesopotamian Literature; Northwest Semitics; History and Historical Geography of the Biblical Period; Midrashic Literature.  

Joshua Karlip
(PhD, Jewish Theological Seminary) 

Assistant Professor of Jewish History

Eastern European Jewish History.

Shalom Holtz
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania),

Assistant Professor of Bible

Mesopotomian literature and law and their relationship to biblical and post-biblical literature. 

Jess Olson
(PhD, Stanford University)

Assistant Professor of Jewish History

Modern East and Central European Jewry; German-Jewish history and thought; Austro-Hungarian Jewry; modern Jewish intellectual history; history of Jewish politics and nationalism.

Debra Kaplan
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Memorial Assistant Professor Jewish History

Early Modern Jewish History; Jewish-Christian relations; emphasis on social history. 

Joshua Zimmerman
(PhD, Brandeis University)

Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies and Eastern European Jewish History; Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies

Jewish social and national movements in Eastern Europe; Jewish culture in Eastern Europe; Holocaust studies. 

Elisheva Carlebach 
(PhD, Columbia University)

Visiting Professor of History

History of early modern European Jewry. 

Sid Z. Leiman
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania)

Visiting Professor of Jewish History and Literature

Bible; history of Biblical exegesis; early modern Jewish intellectual history