Sam Boyd

Samuel L. Boyd publishes an article on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah

Oct. 19, 2022

Samuel L. Boyd has recently published a new article in the Conversation on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. You can find it here .

Hilary Kalisman

Professor Kalisman's new book featured in a Middle Eastern Studies online magazine

Oct. 7, 2022

Hilary Falb Kalisman's new book, Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2022), is featured in Jadaliyya, a Middle Eastern Studies online magazine. You can read Prof. Kalisman's interview here .

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan to moderate upcoming conference: The German Debate about the Holocaust, Colonialism & Genocide

Sept. 28, 2022

On October 21, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan will moderate a roundtable for the "Challenging Conversations" series, hosted by North Carolina German Studies. The title of the event is " Historikerstreit 2.0.”? The German Debate about the Holocaust, Colonialism & Genocide. For an overview of the program and a link to register,...

Brian Catlos

Brian A. Catlos publishes a new textbook and companion sourcebook

Sept. 12, 2022

Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, has published a new textbook and companion sourcebook, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and Texts from the Middle . Learn more about these incredible resources here: http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/the-sea-in-the-middle

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently hosted two international Holocaust Studies conferences

Aug. 23, 2022

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently hosted two international Holocaust Studies conferences at Appalachian State: a symposium for educators on film and photography during the Holocaust, and an academic conference including panels on Yizker books, Yiddish women writers and the Shoah, children’s Holocaust literature, and teaching Holocaust studies. As part of these...

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What's New in Jewish Studies, 2022-2023

Aug. 22, 2022

As we enter the 2022-2023 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at 鶹ѰBoulder. We are very excited to welcome two new members to Jewish Studies, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan , the new Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in...

Gregg Drinkwater receives new ContingentFaculty and Independent Scholar Research Grant

Aug. 5, 2022

Gregg Drinkwater has been named one of the inaugural recipients of the Association for Jewish Studies’s new Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants, which will support his project "Prelude to Pinkwashing: Homonationalism, Diaspora, and the Gay Jewish Embrace of Israel.”

Samira Mehta

Samira K. Mehta publishes several articles about on abortion, American history, religion, and the Supreme Court.

July 1, 2022

Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one. Samira K. Mehta, 鶹Ѱexpert on religion, gender and sexuality, shares on The Conversation. Read the June 13th article here . Samira K. Mehta and Lauren Maclvor Thompson discuss how the Supreme Court’s abortion decision is...

Elias Sacks

Director Elias Sacks publishes a new book review in Modern Theology

June 20, 2022

Director Elias Sacks' review of Randi Rashkover's book "Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theopolitical Problem” has been published in Modern Theology . You can access the review here.

Beverly Weber

Beverly Weber publishes a co-written article in a special issue of Feminist Formations

June 1, 2022

Beverly Weber has a new co-written article in the special issue of Feminist Formations: Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University . Read her article “ Decolonizing Time, Knowledge, and Disability on the Tenure Clock ” here.

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