Faculty
Camille Angel
Adjunct ProfessorCamille Shira Angel, an adjunct professor in the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, is also an ordained rabbi from the Hebrew Union...
Courses:
Ethics
Paula Birnbaum
Professor and Academic Director, MA in Museum Studies
pjbirnbaum@usfca.edu (415) 422-5167
Paula Birnbaum will be on sabbatical for the 2017-18 academic year. She is the Academic Director of the Museum Studies Master of Arts Program and...
Education:
PhD, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College | MA, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College | BA, History of Art & French Literature, Bowdoin College
Courses:
Museum Studies I, Modern & Contemporary Art, Women & Art, Special Topics, Directed Study/Research, Museum Studies: History/Theory
Jeremy Brown
Adjunct Professor
jpbrown2@usfca.edu (415) 422-6601
Jeremy P. Brown earned his PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University. He teaches at USF in the department of Theology and Religious...
Education:
BA, Religion, Reed College | PhD, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
Expertise:
Jewish mysticism, Judaism in medieval Iberia, Historical intersections of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Courses:
Directed Study, Jewish and Islamic Mysticism, Jewish-Christian Relationship
Lee Bycel
Adjunct Professor
ltbycel@usfca.edu (415) 422-6601
Lee is the rabbi at Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa and a Senior Moderator at the Aspen Institute. He has devoted his life to a variety of social...
Education:
BA from University of California at Berkeley | PhD from Claremont School of Theology
Expertise:
Social justice issues
Courses:
Holocaust and Genocide, Ethics
Aaron Hahn Tapper
Professor
ajhahntapper@usfca.edu (415) 422-2378
Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, the Mae and Benjamin Swig Professor in Jewish Studies and the founding Director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and...
Education:
PhD, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara | MTS, Harvard Divinity School | BA, Johns Hopkins University
Courses:
Politics of Conflict and Peace, FYS: First-Year Seminar, TYS: Transfer Year Seminars, Social Justice, Activism, and Jews, Jews, Judaisms, and Jewish Identities, Ethics, Directed Reading
Susanne Hoelscher
Adjunct Professor
shhoelscher@usfca.edu (415) 422-2802
Susanne Hoelscher received her PhD in German Studies from the University of California, Davis, with an emphasis in post-wall Berlin literature and...
Education:
PhD, German Studies, University of California, Davis | MA, German Studies, San Francisco State University
Courses:
Paris-Berlin, First Semester German, Second Semester German, Third Semester German, German Literature and Culture/1945-Today, Paris-Berlin
Oren Kroll-Zeldin
Adjunct Professor
omkrollzeldin@usfca.edu (415) 422-6601
Oren Kroll-Zeldin received his PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies where he also received an MA...
Courses:
Social Justice and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Modern Jewish Thought, Jews, Judaisms, and Jewish Identities, Social Justice and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ethics, Directed Reading
Rose Levinson
Adjunct Professor
rllevinson@usfca.edu (415) 422-6601
Rose L. Levinson, PhD, came to USF in 2009, soon after completing a doctorate focused on Jewish Cultural Studies. She teaches Jews, Judaisms and...
Elliot Neaman
Professor
neamane@usfca.edu (415) 422-6411
Elliot Neaman received a BA in sociology from the University of British Columbia in 1979, an MA in history and philosophy from the Freie Universität...
Education:
PhD, History, University of California at Berkeley | MA, History and Philosophy, Freie Universität in Berlin | BA, Sociology, University of British Columbia
Courses:
The World Since 1945, European Civilization, Historical Methods, The World Since 1945, Modern European Intellectual History, Modern German History, Special Undergraduate Studies in History, Undergraduate Seminar in European History, The Social Implications of Scientific Rationality, Late Modern Intellectual History; Existentialism and Humanism
Andrew Ramer
Adjunct Professor
aramer@usfca.edu (415) 422-6601
Andrew Ramer, an adjunct professor in the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, is also an ordained maggid (sacred storyteller) and the...
Courses:
Jews, Judaisms, and Jewish Identities
Esti Skloot
Adjunct Professor
skloot@usfca.edu (415) 422-6650
Esti Skloot grew up in Israel where she studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and received her teacher's credentials from the Hebrew...
Education:
BA, Music, Sonoma State University | MA, Creative Writing, University of San Francisco
Courses:
First Semester Hebrew, Second Semester Hebrew, Third Semester Hebrew, Dir Reading & Research
Maja Zuckerman
Adjunct Faculty
zuckerman@usfca.edu (415) 422-6601
Maja Gildin Zuckerman works in the intersection of Jewish cultural history, anthropology, and social theory, with a focus on Jewish nationalism,...
Education:
PhD, Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Southern Denmark | MA, Anthropology and Sociology (cum laude), Tel Aviv University | BA, Anthropology and Jewish Studies, Copenhagen University and Haifa University
Courses:
Ethics
Stephen Zunes
Professor
zunes@usfca.edu (415) 422-6981
Stephen Zunes has been at USF since 1995, teaching courses on the politics of Middle East and other regions, nonviolence, conflict resolution, U.S....
Education:
PhD, Cornell University | MA, Temple University | BA, Oberlin College
Courses:
Politics of Conflict and Peace, Nonviolence in Theory and Practice, Global Economic Justice, Government and Politics of the Middle East, Global Conflict Resolution, United States Foreign Policy, Directed Study
Contact Info
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