Jewish Studies Center

Associated Faculty

Faculty affiliated with Jewish Studies come from a range of disciplines, including Anthropology, English, Fine and Performing Arts, History, Journalism, Modern Languages, and Sociology. The conversations initiated across these fields and between faculty, students of all backgrounds, and community members, bring to bear new perspectives on traditional areas of study and reflection.

	Jessica Lang, Director, Jewish Studies Center Associate Professor of English specializing in early American fiction, Jewish American literature, women's fiction and composition
	Ruth Adler, Modern Languages Professor (PhD, NYU) Hebrew and Comp. Lit. Hebrew Literature; Jewish-American & Yiddish Literature; Sociopsychological Approaches to Literature; Pedagogy
	Esther Allen, Modern Languages Assistant Professor (PhD, NYU) Literary Translation, Translation Studies, Ecolinguistics, 19th & 20th-century Latin American Literature, 19th & 20th-century French Literature
	Roslyn Bernstein, Journalism Urban reporting, arts, culture, feature writing. Director Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program
	Susan M. Chambré, Sociology BA Queens College, PhD University of Pennsylvania
	Vincent DiGirolamo, History Assistant Professor 19th, 20th century history, focus on immigration, labor, New York City, childhood
	Kenneth J. Guest, Anthropology Columbia University (BA, East Asian Studies); Union Theological Seminary (MA, Religious Studies); and The City University of New York Graduate Center (MA, MPhil., PhD, Anthropology).
	Barbara Gluck, English Associate Professor, Assistant Chair of the English Department, and a founder and early editor of Encounters: Sentence & Stanza, the Baruch College literary journal.
	Gail Levin, Fine and Perfroming Arts                                                   PhD, Rutgers University, Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of CUNY; art historian specializing in art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
	Meir Lubetski, Modern Languages Professor (PhD, NYU): Hebrew & Comp. Lit. Ancient Near East Languages & Literature; The Bible World; Past Biblical & Rabbinic Literature
	Jeffrey M. Peck, Weissman Dean, Vice Provost for Global Strategies, & Professor of Comparative Literature (PhD, UC Berkeley) Research interests: German Jewish Relations, especially >1945; Literature & Anthropology; Literary & Cultural Theory; Minority & Diaspora Studies; Gender
	Katherine Pence, History Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department German & Women’s History
	Michael Plekon, Religion Coordinator, Religion and Culture Program
	Michael E. Staub, English Scholarly interests include modern and contemporary literature, American cultural and intellectual history, documentary and nonfiction writing, American ethnic and minority literature, and Jewish and Holocaust studies
	Dov Waxman, Political Science Associate Professor, BA Oxford University, MA (Honors), PhD (with Distinction), Johns Hopkins University
	Elizabeth Wollman, Assistant Professor of Music PhD, CUNY. Interests include Music History, Ethnomusicology, Popular Music Elizabeth Wollman, Fine and Performing Arts