Jewish Studies | Faculty

Assistant Professor

Dr. Boaz Atzili is a political scientist who researches and teaches international politics. His interest is in international security with an emphasis on territorial conflicts and the politics of borders, and the international aspects of state weakne... [More]

Professor

Richard Breitman teaches courses in modern European history and German history. He is the author or co-author of nine books and many articles in German history, U. S. history, and the Holocaust. His most recent books are editions of the diaries of Ja... [More]

Associate Professor

Max Paul Friedman specializes in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations. A graduate of Oberlin College and U.C. Berkeley, he was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and has taught at Boulder, Tallahassee, and Cologne. His book, Nazis and Good Neighbors... [More]

Professor

Gershon Greenberg is the author of three definitive bibliographies of religious thought and the Holocaust, and numerous articles on German-Jewish philosophy, history of Jewish thought in America and religious responses through the Holocaust. He has s... [More]

Professor

Gregg Ivers is professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where he teaches constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, landmark law cases and numerous other courses that meet at the intersection of law, politics and society... [More]

University Professor

Alan M. Kraut is Professor of History and an affiliate faculty member in the School of International Service. He is a Non-resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. He specializes in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, the... [More]

Associate Professor

Eric Lohr is author of Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens during World War I (Harvard University Press, 2003), The Papers of Grigorii Nikolaevich Trubetskoi (Online publication by the Hoover Institution, Stanford Univ... [More]

Associate Professor

Gail Mardirosian spent the 2008-09 AY as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Prague, CZ, at the Academy of Performing Arts and writing book entitled Exceptional Teaching, Exceptional Learning: Using the Arts as a Pathway to Success in Learning, K-16.Curren... [More]

Director, Jewish Studies Program

Pamela S. Nadell, the Inaugural Patrick Clendenen Professor of History, is the Program Chair of American University’s Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in American Jewish history and women’s history, she teaches a variety of courses in Jewish civi... [More]

University Professor

Professor Simon's research interests and primary areas of concentration in academic work are law and society; the jury system; immigration policies and public opinion; trans-racial adoption; women and the criminal justice system; women's issues; and ... [More]

Professor Emerita

Schusterman Teaching Fellow in Residence

Nina S. Spiegel, Schusterman Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies, specializes in modern Jewish cultural history. Her research explores topics including Jewish public culture in Israel and America, museums and the construction of memory, and Jewish danc... [More]

Professor

Russell A. Stone has research and teaching interests that include development, public opinion, social change, Middle Eastern and Third World societies, and environmental sociology. He has published on social change in Israel and the Middle East, and ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Marcela Sulak teaches courses in translation, poetics, world poetry, and world literature. Her collections of poetry include "Immigrant" (forthcoming) and the chapbook "Of All The Things That Don't Exist, I Love... [More]

Professor Emeritus

Assistant Professor

Michael Wenthe was trained in medieval literature at Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. His primary research interest involves the staging of othering and difference as expressed in the polyglot, international literature of King Arthur, and his current... [More]