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.

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

Christine Hayes christine.hayes@yale.edu
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.

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

Advisory Committee
In addition to the above, the following serve on the Advisory Committee for 2006-2007:

Leslie Brisman
Karl Young Professor of English

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

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 2007-2008:

Tessa Rajak (University of Reading), tessa.rajak@yale.edu year, Horace W. Goldsmith Visiting Professor, Judaic Studies, History, and Classics (fall semester).

Gershon Bacon (Bar-Ilan University), Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies and History (fall semester)

Eli Yassif (Tel Aviv University), Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies (spring semester)

Robert Liberles (Ben-Gurion University), Horace W. Goldsmith Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies and History (spring semester)

Postdoctoral Associates in Judaic Studies

Mara Benjamin (2005-2007) mara.benjamin@yale.edu (Ph.D. Stanford University), Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Judaic Studies, Lecturer, Religious Studies

Daniel Stein Kokin (2006-2008) daniel.steinkokin@yale.edu (Ph.D. Harvard University), Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Judaic Studies, Lecturer, History

Samuel Secunda (2007-2009) (Ph. D. Yeshiva University), Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Judaic Studies, Lecturer in Religious Studies

Research Affiliate

Alan Appelbaum (2007-2008) alan.appelbaum@yale.edu (Ph.D. Yale University), Research Affiliate in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies.

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