Jewish Studies Program
Faculty
The multidisciplinary Jewish Studies Program draws faculty from a range of departments, including religious studies, global languages, English, and more.
Yudit K. Greenberg
Director of Jewish Studies Program | George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Professor of Religious Studies
French House – Room 205
T. 407.646.2176
Dr. Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair of Religion and Founding Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Her fields of teaching and research include modern and contemporary Jewish thought, comparative religion, women and religion, crosscultural views of love and the body, gender, sexuality, and interreligious studies. Dr. Greenberg is the author of Better Than Wine: Love, Poetry and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenweig, the two volume Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, nominated for the American Academy of Religion Book award for 2009, and the editor of From Spinoza to Levinas: Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy. She has written numerous articles and essays in modern and contemporary Jewish thought, and in comparative Hindu and Jewish philosophy and religion. Her recent books include The Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, and Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion, Lexington Books, 2018.
Dr. Greenberg lectures nationally and internationally on philosophical topics related to love, body, and gender. She is active in interreligious dialogues in organizations such as the Parliament of the Worlds' Religions. She holds leadership roles in numerous scholarly societies and organizations such as the American Academy of Religion, we she served as co-chair of the Studies in Judaism Section and the Comparative Study of Judaisms and Hinduisms Group, the Association for Jewish Studies, and Dharma Academy of North America. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is General Editor of Studies in Judaism Series for Peter Lang Academic Publishers. Dr. Greenberg is a recipient of numerous awards including three Fulbright Scholar Awards, the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award, the Arthur Vining Davis Award, and the Presidential Award for the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion from Rollins College, the Templeton Course Prize in Science and Religion, and the Harvard University Pluralism Project Grant. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in 2015 in India, a Visiting Research Fellow in 2017 at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the Summer of 2018, she was a Research Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universitat, and starting in January 2019, she will be a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar at the University of Mumbai in India.
Susan Lackman
Professor of Music Theory and Composition
Keene Hall - Room 207
T. 407.646.2400
B.Mus.Ed. Temple University
M.A. American University
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Specializations: Musical composition, criticism, and broadcasting.
Maurice O'Sullivan
Professor of English | Kenneth Curry Chair in Literature
T. Carnegie Hall - Room 105
T. 407.646.2662
A.B. Fairfield University
M.A. Case Western Reserve University
Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University
Specializations: 18th-century English literature, minority literature, popular culture, and Florida studies.
Nancy M. Decker
Associate Professor of German
Hauck Hall - Room 202
T. 407.646.2410
B.A. College of William and Mary
M.A. Cornell University
Ph.D. Cornell University
Specializations: German language, literature, cultural history, and questions of colonialism.
Rachel Newcomb
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Cornell Hall – Room 102
T. 407.691.1703
B.A. Davidson College
M.A. Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University
Specializations: Cultural and applied/public anthropology, Middle East and North Africa, gender, Islam, modernity, globalization, and identity
Todd French
Assistant Professor of Religion
French House - Room 204
T. 407.646.2139
B.A. Lipscomb University
Th.M. Princeton Theological Seminary
M.Div. Union Theological Seminary
Ph.D. Columbia University
Specializations: Early Christianity, Byzantine Hagiography, Syriac, Islam, Mysticism, Gender, Poverty, and Extremes in Religion
Eren Tatari
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Cornell Hall – Room 120
T. 407.646.2183
MA., Ph.D. Indiana University BA Franklin and Marshall College
Specializations: Ethnic and religious minorities in the U.S. and Western Europe, Middle East politics, democratic theory and minority rights, politics and religion, women in Islam, gender politics, and intersectionality.
Anne Zimmerman
Lecturer in English
Orlando Hall - Room 211
T. 407.691.1705
B.A. Westminster College
M.F.A. Purdue University
Ph.D. Purdue University