Faculty & Staff

Calvin Goldscheider
Scholar in Residence
calvin.goldscheider@BROWN.EDU
Dr. Calvin Goldscheider joined the American University faculty as a Polinger Scholar in Residence in fall 2006 and returns this fall to guide and mentor students, work with faculty, and advise the Center for Israel Studies. Dr. Goldscheider is an internationally renowned scholar in Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, sociology, and demography. He retired from a distinguished career at Brown University, where he was Professor of Sociology, Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies, and faculty associate of the Population Studies and Training Center. He earned his PhD at Brown University and was formerly professor of sociology and demography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and chairman of its Department of Demography. Goldscheider has also held faculty appointments at the University of Southern California, the University of California at Berkeley, and Brandeis University and was a senior Fulbright research scholar and visiting professor at the Center for Women's Studies at Stockholm University. Author or editor of 25 books, he includes among his most recent publications Israel's Changing Society (2002); Cultures and Conflict: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (2002); Studying the Jewish Future (2004); and A Typical Extraordinary Jew: From Tarnow to Jerusalem (2011), coauthored with Jeffrey Green.  

Faculty Advisory Committee

Boaz Atzili: School of International Service
Erran Carmel: Kogod School of Business, Information Technology
Alan Kraut: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Robert Lerman: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Alan Levine: School of Public Affairs, Government
Richard Linowes: Kogod School of Business, Management
Pamela Nadell: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Jewish Studies
Herman Schwartz: Washington College of Law

Faculty Affiliates

Lynn Addington: School of Public Affairs, Justice Law and Society
Richard Breitman: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Philip Brenner: School of International Service
Yaniv Dinur: College of Arts and Sciences, Performing Arts
Frank DuBois: Kogod School of Business, International Business
Amos Golan: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Gershon Greenberg: College of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy and Religion
Jill Klein: Kogod School of Business, Executive in Residence
Saul Newman: School of Public Affairs, Government
Scott Parker: College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Naima Prevots: College of Arts and Sciences, Performing Arts, Emeritus
David Rosenbloom: School of Public Affairs, Public Administration and Policy
Myra Sklarew, College of Arts and Sciences, Literature, Emeritus
Maina Singh, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Jeffrey Sosland: Washington Semester
Stanley Weiss: College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Howard Wachtel: College of Arts and Sciences: Department of Economics, Emeritus
Guy Ziv: School of International Service