The highly accomplished Jewish Studies faculty specializes in ancient Judaism and Hebrew Bible, Yiddish and East European Jewish culture, Jewish culture (especially Jewish sacred music), Hebrew language and literature, Israel studies, contemporary antisemitism, and Holocaust studies, among many other areas of inquiry.
The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University is an interdepartmental program. Our faculty are housed in various departments — approaching Jewish culture from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives — history, literature, musicology, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and others. Our faculty is distinguished both by its cutting-edge scholarship and by its commitment to providing students with an outstanding education.
Stephen Katz, Director katzs@indiana.edu (812) 856-6013
Aziza Khazzoom, Director of Undergraduate Studies, khazzoom@indiana.edu, (812) 856-2279
Sarah Imhoff, Director of Graduate Studies; seimhoff@indiana.edu (812) 855-0453
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Core faculty*
| Central Eurasian Studies | Sela |
| Comparative Literature: | Marks* |
| English: | Rosenfeld* |
| Germanic Studies: | Dekel*, Jikeli*, Kerler* |
| History: | Roseman* |
| History of Art: | Facos |
| Jewish Studies: | Hillman, Sakal |
| Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: | Katz*, Khazzoom* |
| Museum of Art | McComas |
| Musicology: | Cohen*, Goldberg |
| Political Science: | Bielasiak, Isaac, Spechler* |
| Religious Studies: | Carlson Hasler*, Imhoff*, Schott, |
| Hebrew Language: | Maoz-Levy, Romashov, Weiss* |
Professor of Political Science and Russian and East European Institute
Politics of the Holocaust
bielasia@indiana.edu | Woodburn Hall 413 | 812-855-5662 | More »
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Postcolonial and Empire Studies, Religion and Trauma, Texts, Textuality, and the History of the Book, American Biblical Interpretation
lcarlso@iu.edu | Sycamore Hall 203 | 812-85x-xxxx | More »
Professor of Jewish Studies and Musicology
Music in Jewish Life; American Music; Musical Theater; Popular Culture; Caribbean Jewish History; Diaspora; Medical Ethnomusicology
cohenjm@indiana.edu | Musicology -Simon Ctr 145K / OVPFAA -Bryan Hall 107 | 812-855-4137 | More »
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies
Contemporary Antisemitism in Germany; Collective Memory in German and Israel; Migration and Exile
idekel@iu.edu | Global & International Studies Building 3128 | phone TBD | More »
Professor, Department of History of Art
Jewish Art, Jews in Scandinavia before 1915
mfacos@indiana.edu | Fine Arts, Room 132 | 812-855-9559 | More »
Professor of Musicology, School of Music
Jews and Jewishness in 19th-and 20th- century Poland; Jewish musicians and music; Jews in Lódz
goldberg@indiana.edu | Simon Music Building, Room M325D | 812-855-7096 | More »
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies & Religious Studies, Director of Graduate Studies
Gender and Judaism, Race and Jewishness, Rabbinic Literature, American Religious History
seimhoff@indiana.edu | Sycamore 223| More »
Rudy Professor of Political Science
Political Theory
isaac@indiana.edu | Woodburn Hall | 812-855-8605 | More »
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
History of Antisemitism; Racism, Discrimination & Education; Jewish-Muslim Relations
gjikeli@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 3121 | 812-855-2033 | More »
Professor of Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Adjunct Professor of American Studies
Hebrew; Israeli Culture; Modern Hebrew Literature
katzs@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 3051 and 4010 | 812-855-4744 | More »
Professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies
History, Dialectology, Sociology, and the Linguistic Analysis of Yiddish; History of Old Yiddish Literature (15th to 18th Century); Yiddish-Slavic Linguistic and Cultural Contacts; Yiddish and Modern Israeli Hebrew; Modern Yiddish Poetry
dkerler@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 3125 | 812-855-1951 | More »
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Center for the Study of the MIddle East, Borns JSP Director of Undergraduate Studies,
Israel Studies
khazzoom@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 3049 | 812-856-2279 | More »
Senior Lecturer in Modern Hebrew
mmaoz@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building, 4007 | 812-856-1936
Professor, Comparative Literature
Biblical and Literary Studies
marks@indiana.edu | Ballantine Hall 913 | 812-855-7935 | More »
Associate Research Scholar; Curator of European and American Art (medieval through 20th century), Indiana University Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
Jewish Artists; 20th Century German and American Art; Holocaust-era Art Looting, Restitution, and Provenance Research; World War II-era Artistic Politics and Propaganda; Jewish American and East European History
jmccomas@indiana.edu | 1133 East Seventh Street | 812-855-1038 | More »
Senior Lecturer in Modern Hebrew
dmromash@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 4011 | 812-856-1431
Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and History; Adjunct Professor of Germanic Studies
History of the Holocaust; History of Antisemitism; The Holocaust; German-Jewish History
marrosem@indiana.edu | Ballantine Hall 819 | 812-855-8325 | More »
Professor of Jewish Studies and English; Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Literature of the Holocaust; American Jewish Literature
rosenfel@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 4006 | 812-855-2325 | More »
Professor of Religious Studies
Religions of the Late Ancient and Byzantine Mediterranean and Near East
jmschott@indiana.edu | Sycamore 209A | More »
Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies; Director of Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies
Islamic History and Historiography; Authority and Self-Representations in Muslim Literary Traditions; Translation; Muslim-Jewish Encounters
rsela@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 2026 | 812-856-7017 | More »
Associate Professor of Political Science
Comparative Foreign Policy; American, Russian, and Israeli Foreign Policy
spechler@indiana.edu | Woodburn 414 | 812-855-5267 | More »
Teaching Professor; Director of Modern Hebrew Language Program
ayweiss@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 4009 | 812-855-2338
Visiting Faculty, 2021-2022
Modern Jewish Thought; Kabbalah; Scriptural Interpretation; Religion and Hip Hop
bghillma@iu.edu | Global & International Studies Building 4023 | 812-85x-xxx |
2021-2022 Melanie and Andrew Goodman Postdoctoral Fellow for the Olamot Center for Scholarly and Cultural Exchange with Israel
Israel Studies; Modern Jewish Thought; Sephardic History and Thought
vesakal@iu.edu | Global & International Studies Building 4019 | phone | More
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology of Judaism and the Jews
Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British and American Literature; Holocaust Literature
Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Czech/Jewish Literature; Czech Linguistics and Semiotics
ISCA/Olamot Program Administrative Assistant
gcbland@iu.edu | Global & International Studies Building 4004e | 812-855-8923
Events Coordinator
mdeckard@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 4013 | 812-856-6014
Interim Jewish Studies Librarian
molsmith@iu.edu | Herman B Wells Library E760 | 812-855-1550 | More »
Jewish Studies Advisor
jstuadv@iu.edu | Global & International Studies Building 1036 | 812-855-9683 |
Program Administrator and Fiscal Officer
tracrich@indiana.edu | Global & International Studies Building 4008 | 812-855-8358
