Religious Studies / Family Medicine

Expert in the history of medicine in the West, the Islamic world, and French empire, whose research and teaching involves North African Jewry, Middle East History and Politics, and European Fascism.

Linguistics & Languages / Global Peace & Social Justice

Research areas include: Franz Kafka in his time and in contemporary popular culture; Jewish folklore; Zionism.

She has published Kafka and Cultural Zionism: Dates in Palestine (2007).  Among the courses she teaches is “The Holocaust in Film and Fiction” and “Longing and Belonging: Narratives of Israel/Palestine.

Religious Studies

Studies modern Jewish thought in its interactions with philosophical movements (especially 19th- and 20th-century French and German philosophy) and contemporary Theory, as well as in the context of modern European and American religion, politics, and culture

Religious Studies

A cultural anthropologist specializing in contemporary North American Jewish life, beliefs, and practices.

Her previous research has examined Jewish summer camps, Jewish yoga, films made by and for Orthodox Jewish women, and, currently, Canada’s Holocaust Torahs.

History; Dean, Faculty of Humanities

Studies 20th century German and European social and cultural history.

Her publications include: Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany (2014) and Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933 (2004), and her current research project is entitled “Citizen Soldiers: Military Service in Divided Germany.”

Religious Studies

Studies the Jewish literature of the Second Temple era in the context of ancient Eastern Mediterranean cultures. Current research foci are: female figures in ancient Jewish texts and Jewish divinatory practices.

Religious Studies

Studies the rise of Christianity particularly as it relates to early Judaism, including the use of Jewish scriptures in early Christian writings, the role of Jewish law in community and identity formation, and the relationship between ethnicity and conceptions of religion.