Core Faculty

Federica K. Clementi	Assistant Professor (English Language & Literature) Ph.D., City University of New York, 2008 Modern Jewish-Italian and Jewish-American women writers; theoretical and psychological approaches to literature; Jewish philosophy and literature after the Holocaust.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Stanley Dubinsky	Professor (English Language & Literature) Ph.D., Cornell University, 1985 Director, Jewish Studies Program	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Saskia Coenen Snyder	Assistant Professor (History) Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2008 European Jewish history (with multidisciplinary interests across history, architecture, and urban studies).	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Katja Vehlow	Assistant Professor (Religious Studies) Ph.D., New York University, 2006 Jewish and Near-Eastern medieval history; Islamic Studies; Christianity; inter-religious polemics; Hebrew language, literature, and medieval manuscripts.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae

Consulting Faculty*

Katherine Barbieri	Associate Professor (Political Science) Ph.D., Binghamton University, 1996 Foreign trade, globalization, and war. Threats to Israel's security. Terrorism and counter-terrorism. Israeli-Palestinian economic cooperation.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Morris J. Blachman	Assistant Dean (USC School of Medicine) Ph.D., New York University, 1976 Inter-generational transfer of Jewish values, especially in relation to secular behavior and Tikun Olam.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Joshua N. Cooper	Palmetto Assistant Professor (Mathematics) Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2003 History of contributions to mathematics by Jews in modern Europe; explicating the role of European Jewry in shaping the world scientific community.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Carl D. Evans	Professor Emeritus (Religious Studies) Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975 Hebrew Bible; Ancient Israelite History and Religion.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Paula R. Feldman personal website	C. Wallace Martin Professor of English and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts (English Language & Literature) Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974 The Jew in the 18th- and 19th-century British Imagination.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Ann Johnson	Associate Professor (History and Philosophy) Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000 History of Science and Zionism; Chaim Weizmann's visions for science in a Zionist state; Science Institutions in Israel.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Matthew J. Kisner	Associate Professor (Philosophy) Ph.D., University of California - San Diego, 2004 Early Modern Philosophy and the history of Ethics and Political Philosophy, including The Ethics of Spinoza.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Lekan	Associate Professor (History) Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999 History of anti-Semitic imagery in early 20th-century German nature conservation and homeland protection movements.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Kevin Lewis	Associate Professor (Religious Studies) Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980 Holocaust-in-Literature-and-Film, research on Wiesel's Night, Auschwitz in The Christian Century; SC Commission on the Holocaust.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Agnes C. Mueller	Associate Professor (Languages, Literatures, & Cultures) Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1997 Research interests in the link between antisemitism and gender, and between antisemitism and anti-Americanism; Antisemitism in contemporary German literature.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Rabbi Meir Muller	Clinical Assistant Professor (Instruction & Teacher Education,    USC College of Education) Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2010 Children’s conception of knowledge in Jewish Education; Early child development; Jewish education.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Josef Olmert	Adjunct Associate Professor (Jewish Studies) Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1984 Middle Eastern fistory and politics; Israeli foreign policy; international media and foreign policy.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
David Reisman	Professor (Biological Sciences) Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986 Faculty Advisor for Hillel, liaison to Hillel and the Jewish Fraternity AEPi.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Sara L. Schwebel	Assistant Professor (English Language & Literature) Ph.D., Harvard University, 2006 Jewish literature (including Holocaust novels) written for children; biblical themes in children’s and adolescent literature; Jewish history/Jewish literature as school curriculum.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Harvey Starr	Dag Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs (Political Science) Ph.D., Yale University, 1971 International relations; international conflict; Israeli foreign/national security policy; the Arab-Israeli conflict system, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.	EMAIL Curriculum Vitae
Howard B. Stravitz	Associate Professor (USC School of Law) J.D., Rutgers University, 1972 Religious Legal Systems: Jewish Law; comparative study of the Anglo-American and Jewish law of personal injury; how Jewish Law solves modern social/cultural issues.	EMAIL

Associate Scholar*

Theodore Rosengarten

Visiting Professor of History and Jewish Studies, College of Charleston Adjunct Professor, South Carolina Honors College, USC Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975 History of the Holocaust; The Holocaust in film and all documentary and dramatic representations of the Holocaust; European colonial traditions and the doctrine of "the final solution".

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*In addition to its Core Faculty, Jewish Studies at the University of South Carolina also depends on Consulting Faculty and Associate Scholars.

Consulting Faculty must have evidence of scholarly interest in the field, and may teach courses outside the core curriculum. Consulting Faculty are full-time employees of the University, who participate in Jewish Studies on this campus in some of the following ways:

• Have a research focus or publication agenda that involves Jewish Studies.
• Teach courses having Jewish Studies content that can be cross-listed.
• Provide service to Jewish Studies committees, serve as a liaison to student groups, or serve on appropriate student committees.

Associate Scholars are associates of the program who are not full-time employees of the University, but who participate in Jewish Studies at USC in the manner described above.

Consulting Faculty and Associate Scholar status is granted to individuals through an application process. New consulting faculty can be self-nominated or nominated by any of the Jewish Studies core faculty. Nominees are invited to submit an application which should consist of a short statement of interest in being listed as Jewish Studies faculty (detailing desired participation in the areas of research, teaching, and service) along with a recent CV. If appropriate, the applicant should also include syllabi of Jewish Studies related courses (or a short title and descriptive paragraph, if such courses have not yet been taught). Applications will be considered and approved by the Jewish Studies core faculty.

Applications should be sent via email, to the director (dubinsky@sc.edu).