Harold Brodsky
Associate Professor. Department of Geography
Ph.D., 1966, University of Washington, M.S., 1960, University of Colorado; B.S., 1954, Brooklyn College
hbrodsky@umd.edu
Dr. Brodsky is the author of several articles on biblical geography and Hebrew maps in addition to many articles in general geography. He recently published a paper in the Jewish Bible Quarterly titled: "Did Abram Wage a Just War?"
Charles Butterworth
Professor. Department of Government and Politics
Ph.D., 1966, University of Chicago; M.A., 1962; B.A., 1959, Michigan State University
cebworth@umd.edu
Dr.S Butterworth studies, teaches, and writes on political philosophy, especially in the Greek, medieval Islamic, and Enlightenment periods. He has also taught and written about political novels and short stories as they relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Mark Cohen
Lecturer. History Department
Ph.D., 1972, University of Pennslyvania
mecohen@umd.edu
Mark E. Cohen is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, where he served as Assistant Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection. He has taught at the University of Maryland for over ten years at the Meyerhoff Center and History Department.
Ranjit Chaterjee
Senior Research Scholar, Meyerhoff Center
Ph.D., 1980, University of Chicago
ranjitc21@hotmail.com
Ranjit Catterjee is a scholar of Wittgenstein and Judaism. He is a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Maryland
Nathan Fox
Professor. Department of Human Development
Ph.D., 1975, Harvard University; A.B., 1970, Williams College
fox@umd.edu
A development psychologist, Dr. Fox works on the effects of children's exposure to violence and war. He has written on how exposure to violence has affected elementary school children in Israel. Dr. Fox has studied the effects of media, specifically television, in transmitting moral values to young children. He has worked in Jordan, Israel and the West Bank with Sesame Workshop to evaluate the effects of children's programming on children's ideas about stereotypes and social equality.
Judith Freidenberg
Associate professor. Department of Anthropology
Ph.D., 1978, City University of New York; M.A., 1969, University of Buenos Aires
jfreiden@umd.edu
Dr. Freidenberg specializes in Hispanic immigrants in America and has written a book and many articles on Hispanic society in the United States. She is the Graduate Director for Anthropology. She is serving as the president of Washington Association of Practicing Anthropologists this year, and is currently working on Memorias de Villa Clara (Memories of Villa Clara), based on the village founded by Jewish immigrants to Argentina, in Antropofagia, to be published later this year.
James F. Harris
Professor. Department of History and Dean, Arts and Humanities
Ph.D. 1968, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., 1964, B.S., 1962, Loyola University of Chicago
jfharris@umd.edu
Dr. Harris is a specialist in nineteenth-century German History. He has written two books on the role of anti-Semitism in German politics.
Jeffrey Herf
Professor. Department of History
Ph.D., 1981, Brandeis University; M.A., 1971, SUNY-Buffalo; B.A., 1969, University of Wisconsin-Madison
jherf@umd.edu
Professor Herf's research and publications examine Europe and Germany 's political culture over the breaks and continuities of the twentieth century. In spring 2006, Harvard University Press is publishing his fourth book, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust . The work examines the Nazi regime's radical anti-Semitic propaganda as a bundle of hatreds, an explanatory framework, and effort to legitimate mass murder. His first book, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has become a standard work and was published in Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish translation. War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (The Free Press, 1991) examined the intersection of political culture and power politics in the last major European confrontation of the Cold War. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997) was the co-winner of the Fraenkel Prize of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London in 1996. In 1998 it received the George Lewis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. Jeffrey Herf has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Israel, and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Marshall Fund, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Max Planck Gesellschaft, the Fulbright program, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His current research examines varieties of opposition to and debates about communism in Weimar Germany , Nazi Germany and West Germany during the Cold War covering the period from 1919 to 1989. He is also working on a collection of essays on ideas and politics in twentieth century German history.
Kenneth Holum
Professor. Department of History
Ph.D., 1973, University of Chicago; M.A., 1969; B.A., 1961, Augustana College
kholum@umd.edu
Dr. Holum is a historian of the ancient Mediterranean world who specializes in late antiquity and the archaeology and history of Greek and Roman cities. Since 1989 he has directed the Combined Caesarea Expeditions, which excavates Caesarea Maritima, located on the coast of Israel. Dr. Holum is the author or editor of six books and more than thirty scholarly articles.
Regina Igel
Professor and Advisor. Portuguese Program and Director, Spanish Honors Program
Ph.D., 1973, University of New Mexico; M.A., 1969, State University of Iowa
ri@umd.edu
Dr. Igel teaches Portuguese. Her scholarly work focuses on Jewish culture and literature in Brazil.
Steven Selden
Professor. Department of Education Policy and Leadership
Ed.D., 1971, Columbia University; M.A., 1970; M.S., 1967, Brooklyn College; B.A., 1963, SUNY-Oswego
selden@umd.edu
Dr. Selden is a professor in the Curriculum Theory and Development Program. He received a Fulbright Lectureship at the Beijing Normal University, People's Republic of China in 1994 and is the recipient of the University of Maryland's College of Education's Vernon Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award, and the Education Press Association of America's Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism. He has written extensively on the history of the American Eugenics Movement and its links to American education policy. He has served as Scholarly Advisor to the United States Holocaust Museum program, "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race." He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Digital Archive of American Eugenics, an in-line archive of the popular eugenics movement in America. His most recent book, Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (Teachers College Press, 1999) received the Gustavus Meyer Award for books contributing to anti-racist thought.
Gabriele Strauch
Associate Professor. Department of Germanic Studies
Ph.D., 1984, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., 1975, Southern Illinois University; B.A., 1969, Pedagogische Hochschule des Saarlandes
gstrauch@umd.edu
Dr. Strauch studies medieval German literature and culture; race, class, culture, and gender in medieval texts; medieval women writers; and medieval Crusade literature. She also has worked on medieval Yiddish texts. |
