Jewish Studies | Faculty

Boaz Atzili

Boaz Atzili

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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]

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202-885-1648
SIS - School of International Service


Richard Breitman

Richard Breitman

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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]

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202-885-2407
CAS - History


Jerome Copulsky

Jerome Copulsky

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Scholar in Residence

Jerome Copulsky specializes in modern Jewish thought, political theology, and civil religion. His scholarly writing has been published in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, The Journal of Religion, and Perspectives on Political Science,... [More]

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202-885-6740
CAS - Jewish Studies


Max Paul Friedman

Max Paul Friedman

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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 first book, Nazis and Good Nei... [More]

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202-885-2154
CAS - History


Gershon Greenberg

Gershon Greenberg

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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]

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202-885-2912
CAS - Philosophy and Religion


Gregg Ivers

Gregg Ivers

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Professor

Gregg Ivers is Professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University. Professor Ivers is the author or editor of six books, including To Build a Wall: American Jews and the Separation of Church and State, Creating Constitutio... [More]

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202-885-2976
SPA - Government


Alan Kraut

Alan Kraut

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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]

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202-885-2410
CAS - History


Lisa Leff

Lisa Leff

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Associate Professor

Lisa Leff is a historian of Europe since 1789 whose research focuses on Jews in France. Her first book, Sacred Bonds of Solidarity (Stanford UP, 2006), examines the rise of Jewish international aid in 19th century France; her current research examine... [More]

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202-885-6377
CAS - History


Allan Lichtman

Allan Lichtman

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Distinguished Professor

Allan J. Lichtman received his PhD from Harvard University in 1973 with a specialty in modern American history and quantitative methods. He became an Assistant Professor of History at American University in 1973 and a Full Professor in 1980. He was t... [More]

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202-885-2411
CAS - History


Eric Lohr

Eric Lohr

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Director of Initiative for Russian Culture and Associate Professor

Eric Lohr is a historian of Russia and East Europe with an affiliate appointment in the School of International Service. He directs the AU Initiative for Russian Culture. He received his M.A. in Russian Studies and Ph.D. in History from Harvard Unive... [More]

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202-885-2464
CAS - History


Gail Mardirosian

Gail Mardirosian

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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]

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202-885-3880
CAS - Performing Arts


Pamela Nadell

Pamela Nadell

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Chair, Department of History

Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History and is Chair of the Department of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in American Jewish history and women’s history, she teaches a variety ... [More]

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202-885-2425
CAS - History


Emeritus Faculty

Myra Sklarew

Myra Sklarew

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Professor Emerita



Russell Stone

Russell Stone

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Professor Emeritus

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]



Howard Wachtel

Howard Wachtel

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Professor Emeritus