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Faculty

Deborah Needleman Armintor
Assistant Professor of English
PhD, Rice University
18th-century British literature and culture

Eli Avraham
Schusterman Visiting Professor of Israel Studies
PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israeli media and marketing

Guy Chet
Associate Professor of History
PhD, Yale University
Colonial America, Atlantic studies, military

James Duban
Professor of English
PhD, Cornell University
American intellectual and literary history

Henry Eaton
Associate Professor of History
PhD, University of Illinois
Holocaust, anti-Semitism

Christopher Fuhrmann
Assistant Professor of History
PhD, University of North Carolina
Ancient Roman Empire and its religions

Richard M. Golden
Professor of History
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University
Early modern Europe, France; State of Israel

Timothy Jackson
Professor of Music
PhD, City University of New York
19th-and 20th-century music; Schenkerian theory

Melinda Levin
Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of RTVF
MFA, University of Oklahoma
Documentary filmmaking

Sander Martin
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
PhD, University of Oregon
Child psychopathology and naturalistic assessment

Alfred Mierzejewski
Professor of History
PhD, University of North Carolina
Modern Germany

Elizabeth Oldmixon
Associate Professor of Political Science
PhD, University of Florida
Congressional politics; Israel studies

Dennis Paz
Professor of History
PhD, University of Michigan
Victorian Britain

Lou E. Pelton
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Mississippi
Marketing; business ethics

Eunice Pollack
Visiting Lecturer
PhD, Columbia University
U.S. Jewish; anti-Semitism; Jews and gender

Richard Ruderman
Associate Professor of Political Science
PhD, University of Chicago
Political theory; Jewish and American political thought

David Williamson
Associate Professor of Sociology
PhD, Vanderbilt University
Sociology of religion and social theory

Martin Yaffe
Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies
PhD, Claremont Graduate University
Jewish thought; Hebrew Bible


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Adjuncts

Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis
MHL
and Ordination, Hebrew Union College
Rabbinics and Bible

Diana Plotkin
PhD, University of Texas at Arlington
Holocaust, Yiddish Literature

Ruth Precker
MA, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Hebrew

Rabbi Adam J. Raskin
MA, Rabbinic Ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Rabbi Jonathan Schick
FRD, Darkei Noam Rabbinical College
MEd, Boston College

Rabbi Howard Wolk
Ordination and MS in Education, Yeshiva University
Rabbinics



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   Program Mission

     1. Educate students, faculty, and the
         DFW community about the religion,
         cultures, and historical experiences
         of the Jewish people.

     2. Promote Jewish and Israel studies
         in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.

     3. Foster ties between UNT and Jewish
         institutions in the DFW area,
         throughout the United States, and
         in Israel.

     4. Increase original scholarship by
         students and faculty on Jewish and
         Israel subjects.


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Last updated: August 17, 2009

UNT Jewish Studies Program
Bernard and Audre Rapoport Jewish Studies Suite
General Academic Building 460

Dr. Richard M. Golden
Director & Professor of History
940-369-8933
rmg@unt.edu
Nanette Behning
Administrative Assistant
940-369-8926
Nanette.Behning@unt.edu
 

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