North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors Directory

North Texas Council of Jewish
Studies Professors

2015—2016 Directory

Center for Jewish Education
of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas

CJE MISSION: To serve on behalf of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas as the resource to facilitate and convene
the Jewish community on issues pertaining to Jewish education, to enrich existing programs, and serve as a catalyst
for new initiatives. To support Jewish education as the critical link in ensuring Jewish continuity and the increased

engagement of all members of the Greater Dallas Jewish community.

North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors Organizational Purpose
Under the auspices of the Center for Jewish Education of the Dallas Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, the goal
of the newly formed Council is to provide an opportunity for area professors to come together, collaborate and
possibly coordinate programs.

Directory Goal
The directory was compiled to provide area university professors with a networking tool; and as a resource guide
for the Dallas area Jewish Community to connect with Jewish studies professors, associated with universities and
academics, to speak at their various institutions.

North Texas Council Jewish Studies Executive Committee

Josh Parens, Chair University of Dallas (972) 721-5241 [email protected]
(940) 369-8933 [email protected]
Richard Golden University of North Texas (214) 768-2157 [email protected]
(972) 883-2769 [email protected]
Shira Lander Southern Methodist University

Nils Roemer University of Texas at Dallas

CJE Advisory Committee
Nancy Brickman, Stacey Butler, Pam Hochster Fine, Shelley Glazer (co-chair), Melissa Gendason, Marcy Helfand,
Ynette Hogue, Rabbi Avraham Kosowsky, Sharon Michaels, Deborah Niederman, (co-chair), Lynda Newman,
Malkie Ozeri, Helen Risch, Rabbi Amy Ross, Jaynie Schultz, Helene Schussler, Shelly Sender, and Julie Shrell

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Marshall N. Armintor

University of North Texas

Office: 940-300-8129
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise
Senior Lecturer and Graduate Advisor Ph.D., Rice University, English (2002) The Jewish Graphic Narrative
M.A., Rice University, English (1997) Comic Books and Jewish Culture
B.A., University of Notre Dame (1992) Israeli Graphic Narrative

Books
Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity. New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford: Wien,Peter Lang International
Academic Publishers, 2004.

Bio
Dr. Armintor received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 2002, and has taught at UNT since 2003. His research interests are primarily
in 20th century British literature, critical theory, new media and graphic narrative. He has lectured on graphic novels and Jewish
culture at a number of venues in the North Texas/Oklahoma area, and well as taught a course on the Jewish Graphic Novel at UNT
in 2012.

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Mark A. Chancey

Southern Methodist University

Office: 214-768-1460
Email: [email protected]
Dallas ,Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Professor of Religious Studies B.A., University of Georgia Early Judaism
M.A., University of Georgia Archaeology of Roman-Period Palestine
Ph.D., Duke University Religion and Public Education
Jesus and Judaism
Archaeology of Judaism

Books
The Bible in the Public Square: Its Enduring Influence in American Life, co-edited with Carol Meyers and Eric M. Meyers. Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.
Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, with Eric M. Meyers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders, co-edited with Fabian Udoh, Gregory
Tatum, and Susannah Heschel. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The Myth of a Gentile Galilee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Articles
“Rewriting History for a Christian America: Religion and the Texas Social Studies Controversy of 2009-2010.” (2014) Journal of
Religion 94 (3), 325-353.
“The Bible, the First Amendment, and the Public Schools in Odessa, Texas.” (2009) Religion and American Culture 19 (2), 169-205.
“Sectarian Elements in Public School Bible Courses: Lessons from the Lone Star State.” (2007) Journal of Church and State 49(4),
719-742.
“Bible Bills, Bible Curricula, and Controversies of Biblical Proportions: Legislative Efforts to Promote Bible Courses.” (2007) Religion
& Education 34 (1), 28-47.
“The Cultural Milieu of Ancient Sepphoris.” (2001) New Testament Studies 47 (2), 127-145.

Bio
Dr. Mark A. Chancey teaches courses on biblical studies such as "Introduction to the New Testament," "Pauline Christianity," and
"World of the New Testament." His research interests include the Gospels, the Historical Jesus, early Judaism, archaeology and the
Bible, and the political and social history of Palestine during the Roman period. He is the author of The Myth of a Gentile Galilee
(Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and co-
author of Alexander to Constantine: Archaeology of the Land of the Bible (Yale University Press, 2012). In recent years, he has
devoted considerable attention to the constitutional, political and academic issues raised by Bible courses in public schools.
Chancey is the recipient of SMU's "M" Award, the Godbey Lecture Series Authors' Award, the Rotunda Outstanding Professor
Award, the Golden Mustang Outstanding Faculty Award, and the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award.

Guy Chet

University of North Texas

Office: 940 369 8927
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Professor of History Ph.D., Yale University 2001 Colonial/Revolutionary America
M.A., Yale University 1998 Rome's Jewish Wars: the Great Revolt and
B.A., Haifa University, Israel 1994 the Bar-Kokhba revolt
(specifically about the Zionist take on the
Jewish revolts)

Books
The Ocean is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688—1856, Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 2003.
Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast, Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Articles
“Teaching in the Shadow of the Military Revolution,” (July 2014) Journal of Military History 78 (3), 837-845.
“The Literary and Military Career of Benjamin Church: Change or Continuity in Early American Warfare.” (Summer 2007) Historical
Journal of Massachusetts 35 (2), 105-112.
"Harmonizing Government and Commerce: Underwriter Efforts to Secure Maritime Trade Routes in the Age of Piracy." (2015)
Marine Insurance: Origins and Institutions, 1300-1850, ed. Adrian Leonard. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
"Colonial Failures, Imperial Triumphs and the Loss of the American Colonies," The American Experience of War, ed. Georg Schild.
Paderborn: Schoeningh 2010: 21-31.
“The War of the Grand Alliance, 1688-1697.” (2001) Reader’s Guide to Military History, ed. Charles Messenger. London: Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers.

Bio
Dr. Chet was raised in Ness Ziona, Israel. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Haifa, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale
University. He lives in Plano, Texas and serves as Professor of early American and military history at the University of North Texas.
His first book (Conquering the American Wilderness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast) is a study of
English and American military culture. Addressing narratives of American exceptionalism, the study points to trends of cultural
continuity between the Old World and the New. This theme of transatlantic cultural cohesion is at the heart of his recent study of
piracy and illegal trade in the British Atlantic (The Ocean is a Wilderness” Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688–
1856). Although his focus is on early modern history, Dr. Chet’s first love was and still is Roman history.

Richard W. Cogley

Southern Methodist University

Office: 214-768-2099
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise
Associate Professor Ph.D., Princeton University (Religion) Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe
Department of Religious Studies M.Div., Yale University (Theology) Calvinist "Philosemitism"
B.A., Franklin and Marshall College Menasseh ben Israel
(English) Messianism and Millenarianism

Books
John Eliot's Mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Articles
"'Some Other Kinde of Being and Condition': The Controversy over the Peopling of Ancient America in mid-Seventeenth-Century
England." (2007) Journal of the History of Ideas 68, 35-56.
"'The Most Vile and Barbarous Nation of all the World': Giles Fletcher, the Elder's The Tartars Or, Ten Tribes (ca. 1610)." (2005) The
Renaissance Quarterly 58, 781-814.
"The Ancestry of the American Indians: Thomas Thorowgood's Jews in America (1650) and Jews in America (1660)." (2005) English
Literary Renaissance 35, 304-330.
"The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Restoration of Israel in the 'Judeocentric' Strand of Puritan Millenarianism." (2003) Church
History 72, 304-332.

Bio
Richard Cogley has taught at SMU since 1987. Prior to that time, he held visiting appointments at North Carolina State University,
Loyola Marymount University, and Reed College. He served as chair of SMU's Department of Religious Studies from 1999 to 2008.
During this time, he hired six new faculty members, including Dr. Serge Frolov, the Nate and Ann Levine Chair in Jewish Studies.

Harriet Cohen

Texas Christian University

Office: 817.257.5230
Email: [email protected]
Fort Worth, TX

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2001 Older Holocaust Survivors, forgiveness
Department of Social Work MSW, University of Georgia, 1975 and resiliency
BSW, University of Georgia, 1974 Spirituality and Religion in Women in
Midlife and Older Adults
Older LGBT Adults and the Negotiation of
Identity
Integrating Gerontology into Social Work
Curriculum

Books
Greene, R. R., Cohen, H. L., Lee, Y., & Gonzales, J. (2009). Narratives of Social and Economic Justice. Washington, DC: NASW Press
Greene, R. R, Cohen, H. L., Galumbos, C, & Kropf, N. P. (2007). Foundation of Social Work Practice in the Feld of Aging: A
Competency Based Approach. Washington, DC: NASW Press.
Greene, R. R., Lee, Y., & Cohen, H. L. (2014). Resiliency and Older Adults. In T. P. Gullotta & M. Bloom (eds). Encyclopedia of Primary
Prevention and Health Promotion (2nd ed). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Williamson, C, Cohen, H. L. & Thomas, C. L. (2010). Religion and Philosophy. In J. Baydo.
Gerontology: An Interactive Text. Retrieved from http://www.nsspress.com/php/startup_gerontology.php5.
Cohen, H. L. (2009). J. G. and social activism. In R. R. Greene, H. L. Cohen, Y. Lee, & J. Gonzales. Narratives of Social and Economic
Justice. (121-134). Washington, DC: NASW Press.

Articles
Isserman, N., Bowen, S., Greene, R., Hollander-Goldfein, B., & Cohen, H. L. (2014). “Intergenerational families of Holocaust
survivors: Designing and piloting a family resilience template.” Journal of Evidence Based Research 11(3), 256-268.
Greene, R. R., Hantman, S., Sharabi, A., & Cohen, H. L. (2012). “Holocaust survivors: Three waves of resilience research.” Journal of
evidence-based social work 9(5). 481-497.
Thomas, C. L., Medina, C. K. & Cohen, H. L. (2010). “Latino voices: Service delivery challenges in child protective services.” Families
in Society 91(2), 158-164.
Cohen, H. L., Meek, K., & Lieberman, M. (2010). “Memory and resilience.” Special issue of Journal of Human Behavior and the
Social Environment, 20(4), 1-17).
Cohen, H. L., Thomas, C. L., & Williamson, C. (2008). “Religion and spirituality as defined by older adults.” Journal of Gerontological
Social Work, 51(3-4), 284-299

Bio
Dr. Harriet Cohen grew up in Mississippi during the 1950s-1960s and witnessed anti-Semitism and social injustice, leading her into
a 26 year career as a social worker at two Jewish communal agencies and Executive Director of the Atlanta Alzheimer’s Association.
She served on the faculty at USF, University of Georgia and UNT, before joining the TCU faculty in 2005.

Harriet’s research agenda examines the experiences of marginalized older adults, especially older Holocaust survivors and LGBT
older adults. She has authored and co-authored over forty articles, book chapters, and two books to educate students and
practitioners about working with diverse older adults. Her video “Lives Rebuilt: Stories of Holocaust Survivors in Texas” brings the
Holocaust experience to students nationally. She is developing additional videos about older Holocaust Survivors. Harriet received
the TCU Deans’ Creativity and Research Award and Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors’ Distinguished Contribution to
Social Work Education Award.

Graham Cox

University of North Texas

Office: 940-565-4526
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Department of History Ph.D., University of Houston, 2008 War Crimes, Genocide, Justice
Continuing Lecturer & Undergraduate M.A., University of Houston, 2003 Nuremberg, Seeking Justice at
Advisor B.A., University of Houston, 2001 Nuremberg
UNT Fellow Military History Center
UNT Fellow Jewish and Israel Studies

Books
Document Reader for American Power, American People. 2-vols. Spring, TX: Nunn McGinty Publishing, 2012.
Co-Author. American Power, American People. 2-vols. Spring, TX: Nunn McGinty Publishing, 2010.

Articles
“Seeking Justice for the Holocaust: Herbert C. Pell versus the US State Department.” (June 2014) UNWCC Special Journal with the
Criminal Law Forum, Springer Science + Business Media, Dordrecht.
“Herbert C. Pell, U.S. Representative on the United Nations War Crimes Commission. In Diplomats at War: The American
Experience,” (2013) edited by J. Simon Rofe: Republic of Letters Press, Netherlands.

Bio
Graham Cox received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Houston and is currently a Continuing Lecturer and Undergraduate
Advisor at the University of North Texas. His research focuses on the intersection of law, war, and society in the modern world. He
teaches courses on United States History, U.S. Foreign Policy, WWII, the Holocaust, War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice. He has
presented numerous talks on the effort to seek justice for war crimes in the U.S. and internationally. He is currently completing a
manuscript on the development of international law covering crimes against humanity, tentatively titled, Under Some
Circumstances: Seeking Justice at Nuremberg and the Dilemma of American Racial Segregation. He has previously taught at the
University of Houston and the University of Texas-Pan American.

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Charlotte Decoster

Dallas Holocaust Museum

Office: 214-741-7500
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Assistant Director of Education Ph.D., University of North Texas Holocaust – Rescue, Hidden Children,
M.S., University of North Texas Western Europe
B.A., Austin College Anne Frank
Nazi Germany
Holocaust Curriculum K-12
Museum Education

Unpublished work:
M.A. Thesis: “Jewish Children Hidden in Belgium during the Holocaust.”
http://digital.library.University of North Texas.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5468/
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Child Rescue as Survival Resistance: Hidden Children in Nazi-occupied Western Europe.”

Bio
Dr. Decoster is Assistant Director of Education for the Dallas Holocaust Museum. An experienced educator, she has researched,
taught, and written on Holocaust history. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Texas. She regularly speaks on
the Holocaust, children and child rescue during the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany. She has travelled throughout the U.S. to give
talks on Anne Frank and child rescue during the Holocaust. She also works with educators to build an interactive curriculum on the
Holocaust for the K-12 classroom.

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Rabbi Geoffrey William Dennis

University of North Texas

Office: 972-539-1938
Email: [email protected]
Flower Mound, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise: Lecture Topics:
Adjunct Instructor in M.HL., Hebrew Union Jewish Civilization Sefer ha-Bahir (Kabbalah)
Rabbinics College Kabbalah: Jewish Lilith (Jewish Studies)
Jewish and Israel Studies B.A., University of New Mysticism, Myth, and Shekhinah
Program Mexico Magic Spiritual Possession in Jewish Tradition
Congregational Rabbi - Schusterman Israel Fellow, The Bible as Literature Modern Jewish Poetry on the Bible
Congregation Kol Ami Brandeis University Midrash, Mishna, and Understanding Taharah and it's Liturgy
Talmud Modern Israel: Multi-ethnic Society
David, Saul, and Solomon: Modern Israel: BDS on Campus
Israelite Iron-age
Monarchy
Israeli Peoples, Israeli
Identities

Books
Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism (2007), Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Worldwide.
The Book of Brilliance: Sefer ha-Bahir Selections Translated, Annotated, and Explained. (Pending, 2016).

Articles
“Vampires and Witches and Commandos, Oy Vey!: Comic Book Appropriations of Lilith.” (Spring 2014) Shofar: The Journal of
Jewish Interdisciplinary Studies 43 (3) [co-author].
"Purity and Transformation: The Mimetic Performance of Scripture in the Jewish Ritual of Taharah.” (Spring, 2012) Journal of Ritual
Studies, (vol. 26, no. 1).
“Finding the Center, Entering the Land: The Labyrinths of Imagination,” (Spring 2009) Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and
Tradition.
“Water as a Medium for Altered States of Consciousness in Early Jewish Mysticism,” (Spring, 2008) Anthropology of Consciousness
19 (1).
“The Congregational Nurse: A New Ally in Making the Synagogue a Center for Healing.” (Fall 2003) CCAR Journal.
“This too is Torah: The Rationale in Judaism for the Practice of Medicine.” (April 2003) Healing Ministries.
“Torah L’chayyim: An Incentive Model for Adult Education.” (Spring 2001) CCAR Journal.

Bio
Rabbi Dennis is Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas and rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami. He received his M.HL. and
was ordained at Hebrew Union College. He is a Schusterman Israel Fellow of Brandeis University. He has published articles on
topics ranging from anthropology and ritual studies to comic books, in publications such as Journal of Ritual Studies, Shofar,
Anthropology of Consciousness, and the Journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. His most recent, “Your Love is
Sweeter than Wine: Erotic Theology in Jewish Tradition,” appeared in The Sacred Encounter (2014). Rabbi Dennis is a multi-entry
contributor to the 30-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. His first book, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic,
and Mysticism (2007) was a Jewish Book Award Finalist. It will be re-released in an expanded version this year. His second book,
The Book of Brilliance: Sefer ha-Bahir, will be released in 2016.

Ariel Feldman

Brite Divinity School

Office: 817-257-5662
Email: [email protected]
Fort Worth, Texas

Information: Degrees: Lecture Topics:
Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Haifa Beyond Canon: Jewish Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha
Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal M.A., University of Haifa Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls
Assistant Professor of Jewish B.A., University of Haifa Reading Jewish Aramaic Texts
Studies The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Bible at Qumran
The Former Prophets Retold
The Patriarchs In Ancient Jewish Literature
Warriors, Prophets, and Sages

Books
The Rewritten Joshua Scrolls from Qumran: Texts, Translations, and Commentary, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013.

Articles
 “The Song of Miriam (4Q365 6a ii + 6c 1-7) Revisited”, (2013) Journal of Biblical Literature 132, 905-911.
 Review of E. Qimron, “The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew Writings: Volume One. Between Bible and Mishnah.” Jerusalem: Yad

Ben-Zvi Press, 2010 (Hebrew), (2013) Journal of Semitic Studies 58, 201-202.
 Review of L.H. Schiffman, Qumran and Jerusalem: “Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism.” Studies in the

Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, Michigan, Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2010, (2013) Journal of Semitic
Studies 58, 204-206.
 Review of M.E. Stone, A. Amihay, and V. Hillel, Noah and His Books(s). SBL “Early Judaism and Its Literature” 28. Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature, 2010, (2013) Journal of Semitic Studies 58, 199-201.
 “Reading Exodus with Deuteronomy in 4Q368 frg. 2.” (2012) Journal of Ancient Judaism 3, 329-338.
 “The Sinai Revelation according to 4Q377 (Apocryphal Pentateuch B).” (2011) Dead Sea Discoveries 18, 155-172.
 “The Story of Exodus according to 4Q422.” (2011) Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Meghillot) 8-9, 373-391.

Bio
Dr. Ariel Feldman is a Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal Professor of Jewish Studies at Brite Divinity School and Texas Christian
University. He also serves as a director of the Jewish Studies Program at these institutions. A native of Moscow, Feldman made
aliya to Israel in 1990. His Ph.D. dissertation (University of Haifa, 2009) explored Second Temple Jewish interpretations of the
biblical Flood story with a particular focus on the texts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Upon the completion of his Ph.D. work,
Dr. Feldman received a prestigious Newton International Fellowship which allowed him to spend two years researching at the
University of Manchester, UK. In 2011, he accepted an invitation to join the faculty at Brite Divinity School as a professor of Jewish
Studies. Feldman’s primary area of research and teaching are literatures and history of Second Temple Judaism. He published three
books (The Rewritten Joshua Scrolls from Qumran: Texts, Translations, and Commentary; Scripture and Interpretation: Qumran
Texts that Rework the Bible [with L. Goldman]; and The Dead Sea Scrolls Rewriting Samuel and Kings: Texts and Commentary) and
multiple articles.

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Amy Fisher Smith

University of Dallas

Office: 972-265-5731
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Associate Professor, Psychology Ph.D., Brigham Young University, 1999 Holocaust Studies and Education
Licensed Clinical Psychologist M.A., Duquesne University, 1993
Psychology Department B.A., Baylor University, 1991

Articles
 Fisher Smith, A., Sullivan, C., Freeman, E., Alonso, A. (2014) “Responses to Holocaust atrocity: A mixed-methods approach.”

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
 Freeman, E., Fisher Smith, A., Nguyen, A. (2013) "Empathy, social justice, and trust in authority: Deadly Medicine’s impact on

beliefs." Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Ft. Worth, Texas.
 Fisher Smith, A., & Sullivan, C. “Holocaust.” (2012) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer.
 Fisher Smith, A. (2011) ‘Naturalistic and supernaturalistic disclosures: The possibility of relational miracles.’ The Indo-Pacific

Journal of Phenomenology, 10 (2), 1-13.
 Fisher Smith, A. (2010) “Incorporating philosophy in every psychology course and why it matters.” Association for

Psychological Science Observer, 23, (2).
 Garza, G. & Fisher Smith, A. (2009) “Beyond Neurobiological Reductionism: Recovering the Intentional and Expressive Body.”

Theory & Psychology, 19 (4), 519-544.
 Fisher Smith, A. (2005). “The dangers of automatically interpreting ‘automaticity’: The new face of determinism.” In B.D. Slife

(Ed), Taking Sides, 14th ed. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.
 Yanchar, S. K., & Fisher Smith, A. (2004). Gospel law and natural law: Practicing psychotherapy in a spiritual context. In A.

Jackson & L. Fischer (Eds.), Turning Freud upside down. Provo, UT: BYU Press.

Bio
Amy Fisher Smith is an Associate Professor of psychology and clinical psychologist at the University of Dallas. She has been a long
standing member of the executive committee of division 24 of the American Psychological Association, The Society for Theoretical
and Philosophical Psychology. Her most recent research interests include Holocaust education and its impact as well as terrorism,
and the processes of radicalization and de-radicalization among extremist groups.

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Serge Frolov

Southern Methodist University

Office: 214-768-4478
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Professor of Religious Studies Ph.D., Religious Studies (with concentration in Hebrew Bible
Nate and Ann Levine Endowed Chair Hebrew Bible), Claremont Graduate University Jewish Studies
in Jewish Studies Ph.D., World History, Leningrad University Ancient Near East
M.A., Religious Studies, Claremont Graduate Judaism
University Jewish History and Thought
B.A., World History, Leningrad University

Books
The Turn of the Cycle: 1 Samuel 1-8 in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.
Judges (Forms of Old Testament Literature 6b) Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013.

Articles
(2014). “The Death of Moses and the Fate of Source Criticism.” Journal of Biblical Literature 133, 648-660.
(2014). “’The Case of Joshua’ Deuteronomy-Kings as Emerging Authoritative Books,” Atlanta: SBL 83-100.
(2013). “Sleeping with the Enemy: Recent Scholarship on Sexuality in the Book of Judges”, Currents in Biblical Research 11, 308-
327.
(2012). “Judah Comes to Shiloh: Gen 49:10bα, One More Time,” Journal of Biblical Literature 131, 417-422.
(2011) “How Old is the Song of Deborah?” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 36, 163-184.

Bio
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, and an Israeli citizen, Serge Frolov joined SMU in 2002. Prior to that, he worked for the National
Library of Russia and the Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russia, and he also taught at the Open University of Israel. He is the
winner of the Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar Award, the Junior Scholar Award from the Southwest Commission on
Religious Studies, and the Golden Mustang Outstanding Faculty Award. He is the author of two books and more than 200 articles in
English and Russian.

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Christopher J. Fuhrmann

University of North Texas

Office: 940-565-4527
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Associate Professor of History and Ph.D., Ancient History with second field in Ancient history, esp. Roman period
Classical Studies Adviser Religious Studies, University of North Carolina Jewish revolts
M.A., Classics, University of Kentucky (1999) Jews under Greek & Roman rule
M.A., History, University of North Carolina, 2001 Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity
B.A., University of Kentucky, 1999

Books
Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Corrected
paperback edition, 2014.

Articles
(forthcoming 2016). “How to Kill a Bishop: Organs of Christian Persecution in the Third Century.” In Rudolf Haensch, ed., Recht
haben und Recht bekommen im Imperium Romanum: Das Gerichtswesen der Römischen Kaiserzeit und seine dokumentarische
Evidenz = Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 23.

(forthcoming 2016). “Police Functions and Public Order.” In Clifford Ando, Paul du Plessis, and Kaius Tuori, eds., Oxford Handbook
of Roman Law and Society, Oxford University Press (UK).

(January 2015). “Dio Chrysostom as a Local Politician: A Critical Reappraisal.” Chapter 8 in Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes, eds.,
Ancient World Views: Institutions and Geography from the Greco-Roman World. Studies in Honor of Richard J. A. Talbert, Boston &
Leiden: Brill, 161-176.

(2010) “Letter of Heliodorus to Dionysis and Apollonius.” Edition and translation of a second-century Greek letter on papyrus
concerning a peasant sub-lease gone wrong. Oxyrhynchus Papyri 75 (5054) (with Plate VIII).

Bio
Christopher Fuhrmann grew up in Kentucky and studied Latin, Greek, and religious history at the University of Kentucky. He has
been a professor of ancient history at the University of North Texas since earning his Ph.D. from UNC in 2005. His teaching and
scholarly interests include Jewish-Gentile relations, the role of the Jewish people in Greco-Roman history, the exceptional Jewish
revolts (especially the obscure Diaspora Revolt or “Qitos War” of 115-117 CE) and other religious conflicts. He also leads a biennial
History study abroad trip to Italy which features sites which are important in Jewish history.

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Andrew Glicksman

University of Dallas

Office: 972-721-5217
Email: [email protected]
Irving, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Assistant Professor, Theology Ph.D., Biblical Studies, The Catholic Wisdom Literature (especially the
University of America wisdom of Solomon )
M.A., Biblical Studies, The Catholic
University of America
B.A., Theology, University of Dallas

Books
Wisdom of Solomon 10: A Jewish Hellenistic Reinterpretation of Early Israelite History through Sapiential Lenses. Deuterocanonical
and Cognate Literature Studies 9. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2011.

Articles
(forthcoming 2015). "15.2 Greek [Wisdom of Solomon]." in Armin Lange, ed. The Textual History of the Bible; Vol. 2; Leiden: Brill.
"15.4 Latin [Wisdom of Solomon]." in Armin Lange, ed. The Textual History of the Bible; Vol. 2; Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2015.
"'Set Your Desire on My Words:' Authoritative Traditions in the Wisdom of Solomon." In Géza G. Xeravits, Tobias Nicklas, and Isaac
(2013). Kalimi, eds. Scriptural Authority in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
16. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 167–184.
(2013). "Introduction to the Wisdom Books" and "The Book of Ecclesiastes." In Carolyn Osiek and Leslie J. Hoppe, eds. Anselm
Academic Study Bible: New American Bible Revised Edition. Winona, Minn.: Anselm Academic, 833–839; 1036–1039.
(2012). "Beyond Sophia: The Sapiential Portrayal of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel and Its Ethical Implications for the Johannine
Community." In Jan G. van der Watt and Ruben Zimmermann, eds. Rethinking the Ethics of John: "Implicit Ethics" in the Johannine
Writings. Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics 3. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament I 291.
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 83–101.

Bio
Dr. Andrew Glicksman received his doctoral degree in Biblical Studies from The Catholic University of America in 2010. He has
taught courses in Scripture and biblical Hebrew at the University of Dallas since 2008. He is interested in both Old and New
Testament exegesis but specializes in the study of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, with a further focus in Wisdom Literature. He
wrote his dissertation on the Wisdom of Solomon (the youngest book of the Catholic Old Testament), and much of his research has
been devoted to better understanding the way in which this deuterocanonical text reinterprets earlier parts of Scripture. His other
major academic interest is the Iron Age archaeology of Israel, Judah, and Transjordan. He has visited various regions in the Middle
East and, in 2007, served as a square-supervisor on the Wadi-ath Thamad Excavation Project in Jordan.

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Richard M. Golden

University of North Texas

Office: 940-369-8933
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise: Lecture Topics:
Professor of History Ph.D., The John Hopkins Early Modern Europe Anti-Semitism--anti-Israelism at
Director, Jewish and Israel University State of Israel American Universities
Studies Program M.A., The John Hopkins Jews and the European Witch Hunts
University The Age of Persecution, 14th-17th
B.A., Vanderbilt University Centuries
Anti-Semitism in the Arab Media
The Demonization of Israel
Ghost beliefs in Western Civilization
Masada and the Great Jewish Revolt

Books
Editor, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition. 4 vols. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
(Awarded the Roland H. Bainton prize in 2007 for best reference book on the Early Modern Period by the Sixteenth Century Society
and Conference.)
Editor, The Social Dimension of Western Civilization. 2 vols. Fifth edition. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. (First
three editions under the title Social History of Western Civilization).
Editor, The Huguenot Connection: The Edict of Nantes, Its Revocation, and Early French Migration to South Carolina. Boston,
Dordrecht, and Lancaster: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.
Editor, Church, State, and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France. Lawrence, KS: Coronado Press, 1982.
The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Curés and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Articles
(1999). “Didactic Dialectic in the Teaching of Early Modern European Religious History in the United States: The Conflict between
Cultural Heritage and Historical Accuracy,” International Society for History Didactics/Mitteilungen der Internationale Gesellschaft
für Geschichtsdidaktik 20/1, 31-38.
(Aug 1997) “American Perspectives on the European Witch Hunts,” The History Teacher 30/4, 409-426.
(1997). “Satan in Europe: The Geography of Witch-Hunts,” in Changing Identities in Early Modern Europe, edited by Michael Wolfe.
Durham: Duke University Press 216-247.
(1994). “Notions of Social and Religious Pollution in Nicolas Rémy's Demonolatry,” in Politics, Ideology and the Law in Early Modern
Europe: Essays in Honor of J. H. M. Salmon, edited by Adrianna E. Bakos. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press 21-33.
(1979). “Religious Extremism in the Mid-seventeenth Century: The Parisian Illuminés.” European Studies Review 9, 195-210.

Bio
Dr. Golden taught at Clemson University before becoming to Chair of the Department of History at UNT in 1994. In 2001, he
became director of the Jewish Studies Program, which he created. He was a Clemson University College of Liberal Arts nominee for
South Carolina Governor's “Professor of the Year” award in 1994. The UNT Board of Regents named him the 1997 Regents' Faculty
Lecturer. In 2006, Dr. Golden was chosen as the “Jewish Professional of the Year” in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by the Regional
Hillel of North Texas. He teaches courses on early modern Europe (Seventeenth-Century Europe; Religion in Early Modern Europe;
Intellectual, Cultural, and Social History of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 500-1789; The Age of the Witch Hunts) and the
history of the State of Israel.

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Mark Goodwin

University of Dallas

Office: 972-721-5358
Email: [email protected]
Irving, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Chair, Associate Professor Ph.D., Yale University Elementary, Intermediate Biblical
Former Dean, School of Ministry M.A., Philosophy, Yale University Hebrew
M.A., Religion, Yale University Understanding the Bible
Department of Theology B.A., John Hopkins University Old Testament Prophets
Judaism: History, Thought, Practice

Books
Paul, Apostle of the Living God: Kerygma and Conversion in 2 Corinthians. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International 2001.

Articles
(2005). "Hosea and 'The Son of the Living God' in Matthew 16:16b." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 67, 265–283.
(1999). "Response to David Rensberger: Anti-Judaism and John's Gospel" in Anti-Judaism and the Gospels, William Farmer, Ed.,
Harrisburg: Trinity Press International 158–171.
(1998) "Commentary on Titus." The International Bible Commentary. Edited by William R. Farmer. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical
Press 1752–58.
(1996) "The Pauline Background of the Living God as Interpretive Context for 1 Timothy 4:10." Journal for the Study of the New
Testament. 61, 65–85.

BIO
Dr. Mark Goodwin received his doctoral degree from Yale University in 1992 and has taught in the Theology Department at the
University of Dallas since 1993. Dr. Goodwin's interests in scripture are wide-ranging, but are focused on the New Testament and
its first century Jewish environment. In 2001, Dr. Goodwin published a book exploring the Jewish character of Paul's God-talk
entitled Paul, Apostle of the Living God: Kerygma and Conversion in 2 Corinthians. Dr. Goodwin also offers a course in Judaism and
has interests in Catholic-Jewish inter-religious dialogue.

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Ezra Greenspan

Southern Methodist University

Office: 214-768-2946
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Professor, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Ph.D., Brown University Modern Jewish Literature
Chair in Humanities and Professor of M.A., Brown University
English B.A., Union College (summa cum laude)

Books
William Wells Brown: An African American Life, New York: W. W. Norton: 2014.
William Wells Brown: Clotel and Other Writings, New York: Library of America, 2014.
The House of Putnam, 1837-1882 (Detroit: Gale, 2002).
George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher, State College: Penn State, 2000.
Walt Whitman and the American Reader, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Articles
(1990). “Walt Whitman and the American Reader.” New York: Cambridge University Press.

Bio
Dr. Greenspan is a literary and cultural historian who studies and teaches the history of written communications and media in the
United States - from manuscript and print to digitalia. His interests include the history of writing, printing, and publishing; of
institutions of letters such as libraries and schools; of the interplay between letters and visual images; of archives and archiving;
and of the historic uses of written communications, especially by ethnic groups such as African Americans and Jews.

Those interests underlie his practice of writing biography. His most recent books are comprehensive biographies of the publisher
G. P. Putnam and of the writer-activist William Wells Brown. His current project is a multigenerational family biography to be called
The Lives and Times of Frederick Douglass and His Family: A Composite Biography.

He offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on all periods of literature and culture in the United States. Recent
offerings include courses on the history of print and digital culture in America, modern Jewish literature and culture, and period
surveys of American literary and cultural history.

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Andy Harris

University of North Texas

Office: 940-565-2306
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Professor of Theatre Ph.D., Columbia University, Graduate School of Jewish Heritage of Broadway
University of North Texas Arts and Sciences, 1981
Performance Faculty A.B., Humanities, University of Chicago, 1967
Anti-Semitism Committee C.I.B., New York University, Graduate, 1985.
Alumnus: New Dramatists

Books
The Performing Set, The Broadway Designs of William and Jean Eckart. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2007. Golden Pen
Award as the Best Book on Stage Production, United States Institute Theatre and Technology. Softcover Edition in Press.
Broadway Theatre. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Award for Excellence in Education, Broadway Theatre Institute. A
Fireside Book Club Selection.
Plays: The Lady Revealed readings in New York, London, and Dallas.
The Eternal Romeo and Juliet (Rose Theatre, London).

Articles
(Spring 1993) “All Over: Defeating the Expectations of the "Well Made Play," American Drama,12-31.
(Winter 1990) “Albee's Lost Decade," Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 2 (1), 55-65.
March 1990 “The Theatre of Andrezej Wajde” review in Theatre Journal, 42 (1), 131-32.
(Spring 1989) “Ibsen’s Forsaken Mermen” review in Theatre Three, 169-173.
(February 18, 1990). “Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre," The New York Times Book Review, p. 21.

Bio
Dr. Harris combines teaching with theatre work. He has written plays, many historically based, and has directed plays ranging from
Sophocles’s “Antigone” to John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt”. His producing credits include New York productions of Brecht’s Galileo
(Time’s 10 Best), Albee Directs Albee, 5 plays by Sam Shepard, O’Neill’s “Welded”, and Cao Yu’s “Peking Man”. As an educator,
Harris was the founding chair of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University and later chaired
departments at Southern Methodist and Texas Christian universities. For UNT’s Jewish and Israel Studies Program, he directed
Brecht’s “The Jewish Wife” (starring Sally Vahle and Bob Hess), moderated a screening of School Ties interviewing director Robert
Mandel, and taught the course Broadway Musicals. He is the great grandson of Yiddish poet Morris Rosenfeld. The Harris’s live in
McKinney where they have won the City’s historic restoration award four times.

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Annelise M. Heinz

University of Texas at Dallas

Office: 972-883-6008
Email: [email protected]
Richardson, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Assistant Professor of U.S. Women's History Ph.D., Stanford University Cultural History
School of Arts & Humanities M.A., Stanford University Histories of Gender, Race, & Sexuality
B.A., Whitman College History of Mah Jong in the U.S.
Jewish American Women's Culture
Transpacific History

Articles
“Performing Mahjong in the 1920s: White Women, Chinese Americans, and the Fear of Cultural Seduction.” Frontiers: A Journal of
Women’s Studies. Forthcoming.

Bio

Currently, Dr. Heinz is working on a book project that traces the profoundly popular Chinese game of mahjong to examine the
making of modern American culture. She argues that mahjong's history illuminates three pivotal areas of change in the twentieth
century: women's shifting domestic roles, transnational mass consumerism and the global economy, and ethnic community
formation and boundaries. Analyzing both production and consumption, Dr. Heinz follows the many meanings of mahjong as it
changed from a form of chinoiserie popular among Anglo-American consumers to become the hallmark leisure activity of postwar
Jewish housewives. Mahjong's integration into daily life gives it power to illustrate human-scale aspects of social, cultural, and
economic history.

Dr. Heinz came to Dallas from Stanford University. Before beginning graduate work, she lived in Southwest China 2007-2008,
teaching English at Yunnan University. A native of Southern California, she also previously worked in education and social work in
Washington State.

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Reid Heller

University of North Texas

Office: 214-810-4461

Email: [email protected]

Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Lecture Topics:
Attorney J.D., SMU Jewish History and Jewish Thought
B.A., University of South Converso Studies/Rio Grande
Florida

Articles
(Dec 2015). “Song From a Withered Limb: Las Posadas and the Converso Crisis of the 16th Century.” HaLapid.
(Oct-Nov 2009). “La Sion sobre el Rio Bravo,” Nexos
(Je 2003). “On the Persistence of Idolatry,” Festschrift for Professor Dr. Eugene Kullman .
(Dec 1996). “Tzaddik of the Southwest,” Southwest Jewish Archives .

Bio
Reid Heller is a business lawyer and independent researcher working in Jewish history, Jewish and classical thought and the origins
of the modern city. From 1988-2008, he focused on educational projects for adults and in 1989, founded and edited content for
the Classical Jewish Text Seminars. In 2005, he, with Dr. Jeffrey Gusky, founded a media company to create documentaries focusing
on the origins of the modern city and crises of modernization. Their projects, to date, have focused on technology and media,
modern political myths, the Dreyfus Affair, the Great War, the origins of Romanian fascism, Frederick Law Olmsted’s vision of
nature and the city, and the settlement of the Rio Grande from the 16th century through the Civil War.

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Erin Hochman

Southern Methodist University

Office: 214-768-3971
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2010 Modern German History
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis Modern Austrian History
Nationalism

Books
Imagining a Greater Germany: Republican Nationalism and the Anschluss Idea in Interwar Germany and Austria, Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, forthcoming in September 2016.

Articles
(2014). "Ein Volk, ein Reich, eine Republik: Grossdeutsch Nationalism and Democratic Politics in the Weimar and First Austrian
Republics," German History 32 (1), 29-52.

Bio
Dr. Hochman is an assistant professor of history at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches classes on modern Europe,
modern Germany, and the Holocaust. Her research interests include the cultural history of politics, the history of democracy, and
the history of nationalism in German-speaking Central Europe. She has received a number of fellowships and awards for her work,
including a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant and the Center for Austrian Studies dissertation prize.

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Sara Abosch Jacobson

Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for

Education and Tolerance

Office: 214-741-7500
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise and Lecture Topics:
Senior Director of Education PH.D., History, University at Buffalo Topics in Modern Jewish History
Brandeis University SIIS Fellow in Israel M.A., History and Political Science, History of Antisemitism
Studies University at Buffalo History of Israel (including Mandatory
B.A., History and Political Science, Palestine)
University at Buffalo Topics in the Holocaust

Books
“We are not only English Jews—We are Jewish Englishmen:” The Making of Anglo-Jewish Community and Identity, 1840-1880.
Cambridge: Under contract with Academic Studies Press, July 2015.

Articles
(2012). “Textbook Analysis: 2011 Social Studies TEKS as Applied to ELA Texts in Texas, Grades 6-12,” Texas Holocaust and Genocide
Commission Austin, TX.
(2010). “’Good Jews and civilized, self-reliant Englishmen': Crafting Anglo-Jewish Education in the 19th Century” in Geoffrey
Alderman, ed., New Directions in Anglo-Jewish History. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 49-72.
(2007). “Establishing Jewish Community and its Limits, 1836-1856: Dissent and Decorum Most English” in Frederick C. Schneid and
Susan Conner, eds. Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers, 2005. High Point, NC: High Point University,
289-301.
(2007). “Agreeing to Disagree? Paramilitaries and Nation-Building in Palestine, 1937-1948,” in Jeffrey Gaab and Marlene San
Miguel Groner, eds. War and Nation Building in the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference. Farmingdale, NY:
Farmingdale State University, 47-55.

Bio
Dr. Sara Abosch Jacobson joined the Dallas Holocaust Museum as Senior Director of Education in 2012. In this position, she directs
all educational programming and community outreach, the archives & library, and rotating special exhibits. Prior to joining the
Museum, she was the David Bornblum Visiting Scholar in Judaic Studies at the University of Memphis, 2009-2012. Before this, she
taught at North Carolina State University, Colby College, Meredith College, and the University at Buffalo. An experienced educator,
Sara has researched, taught, and written on Jewish culture and history and given many talks and presentations to community and
academic groups around the country.

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Shira L. Lander

Southern Methodist University

Office: 214-768-2157
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise and Lecture Topics:
Professor of Practice Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Ancient Judaism and Jewish-Christian
Director of Jewish Studies M.A., Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Relations
Religion Women and Judaism
B.A., Yale University Ancient Synagogues and Their Practices
Jews and the New Testament
Anti-Semitism
Religion and Violence

Books
Spatial Relations: Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa, an examination of the battles for sacred space that
took place in late Roman North Africa among Christians, pagans, and Jews. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer, ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Nate DesRosiers, Shira L. Lander,
Jacqueline Z. Pastis and Daniel Ullucci. Brown University Press, 2015.

Articles
(2015). “Apocalypticism and Gender in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy,” with Jordan Kraemer, A Most Reliable Witness:
Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer, ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Nate DesRosiers, Shira L. Lander, Jacqueline Z. Pastis and
Daniel Ullucci. Brown University Press, 165-174.
“The Role of the Religious Voice in the 21st Century—A Jewish Perspective,” Religious Identity and Renewal in the Twenty-First
Century: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Explorations, ed. Simone Sinn and Michael Reid Trice Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2015.
(2013). “Inventing Synagogue Conversion: The Case of Late Roman North Africa,” Journal of Ancient Judaism 4.3, 401-416.
(2013). “Revealing the Hidden God in Ancient Synagogue Art,” Histories of the Hidden God: Concealment and Revelation in
Western Gnostic, Esoteric and Mystical Traditions, ed. April DeConick and Grant Adamson, Gnostica Series. Acumen Publishing, pp.
205-216.
(2011 ). Commentary on 1 Corinthians, The Jewish Annotated New Testament, ed. Marc Zvi Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine. Oxford
University Press, pp. 287-314. Currently being revised for second edition, September, 2015.

Bio
Dr. Lander is the Director of Jewish Studies at Southern Methodist University, where she holds a faculty appointment in Religious
Studies. She previously served as the Anna Smith Fine Senior Lecturer for the Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University, where
she also directed the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance. Dr. Lander earned her doctorate in Judaism and Christianity in Late
Antiquity from the University of Pennsylvania after her rabbinic ordination from HUC-JIR. Her publication’s focus on Jewish-
Christian relations, including the commentary on 1 Corinthians in Oxford University Press’s ground-breaking publication, the Jewish
Annotated New Testament. She has taught Jewish and religious studies at the University of Maryland at Baltimore Co-University of
North Texas, St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Delaware, Princeton University, and
the Beth Tfiloh Dahan High School, and served as Hillel rabbi to the Baltimore area colleges and universities. She has served on the
Joint Commission on Interreligious Affairs of the Reform movement and is an academic advisor to the National Council of
Synagogues. As the inaugural Jewish scholar on the staff of Baltimore's Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies, she launched the
Jewish Scholars Group, charged with developing the historic document, Dabru Emet. Lander’s vocals and violin-playing are
featured on two of Cantor Lisa Levine’s recordings: Mis Canciones Para Los Judios De Cuba and Soulful Shabbat Songbook and CD.

She and her husband Dr. David Portnoy are the proud parents of Zachary, a sales manager for Barcoding, Inc., his wife Elana, a
commercial realtor, and Maury, a doctoral student in Linguistics at USC.

Scott M. Langston

Texas Christian University

Office: 817-257-6678
Email: [email protected]
Fort Worth, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Lecturer in Religion Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist Seminary Southern Jewish History
M.A., University of Texas at Arlington Biblical and Archaeological Studies

Lecture Topics
Southern Jewish History
Jewish-Christian Interactions
Biblical and Archaeological Studies

Books
Exodus Through the Centuries, Blackwell Bible Commentary Series, John F. A. Sawyer and David M. Gunn, eds., Blackwell Publishing,
2006.

Articles
(2015). “Being Jewish in Columbus, Georgia: The Business, Politics, and Religion of Jacob and Isaac Moses, 1828-1890.” Southern
Jewish History, 18, 1-61.
“Teaching Southern Jewish History: A Dialogue.” Co-authored with Bryan Edward Stone. Southern Jewish History (15) 2012: 1-40.
(2011). “The Bible and Bombings: Southern Rabbis Respond During the Civil Rights Movement.” Southern Jewish History, 14, 155-
200.
(2007). “Rabbi Morris Newfield: Ambassador to the Gentiles, A Balancing Act.” American Jewish Archives Journal, 59.1&2, 79-88.

Bio
Dr. Langston teaches courses in religious and biblical studies, while also having previously taught courses in American History. His
research and teaching interests focus on the relationship between Native Americans, Christianity, and American values, as well as
the reception history of the Bible and southern Jewish history. His publications include the book, Exodus Through the Centuries
(2006), and numerous essays that have appeared in a variety of books and journals. Langston is currently the editor of the Primary
Sources section of the journal, Southern Jewish History, a past president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, and the current
First Vice-President of the Texas Jewish Historical Society. He also has excavated at Tel Beth Shean and Tel Batash (Timnah), Israel.
He holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament and a Masters of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, a Masters of Arts
in American History from the University of Texas, Arlington, and a B.A. in Christianity and Business Management from Houston
Baptist University.

He is currently writing “Joshua Through the Centuries for the Blackwell Bible Commentary” series, as well as working on a history
of Newport, Texas, a small community located in the northwest section of the state. Married with two daughters and a son, he had
been a long-time Houston Astros fan, but could not bear their move to the American League. His son, however, remains devoted.

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Alan T. Levenson

University of Oklahoma

Office: 405-325-6508
Email: [email protected]
Norman, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Schusterman-Josey Professor of Jewish History Ph.D., Ohio State University Jewish Intellectual, Literary, and
Directory, Schusterman Center of Judaic & M.A., Brown University Religious History
Israel Studies B.A., Brown University
Lecture Topics
The Jewish ‘Mad Men’
Joseph’s Women
A Few Good Jews in Modern Literature

Books
Joseph: Portraits Through the Ages New York: JPS 2016.
The Wiley – Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, Editor 2012.
The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield 2011.
Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany Lincoln: U. Nebraska 2004/2013pbk.
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers New York: Rowman & Littlefield 2000/2006pbk.

Articles
(2016). “Triple Immersion: A Singular Moment in Modern Jewish Intellectual History” in Three Way Street (eds. Geller and Morris)
University of Michigan, 54-84.
(Fall 2011). “Syncretism and Surrogacy in Modern Times: Two Models of Assimilation” Shofar, 1-14. (Recently re-published in The
Jewish Museum “Unorthodox” catalogue)
(2008 ), “George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda” Revisited Prooftexts, 129-156.
(1998). “Christian Author, Jewish Book? Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers” German Quarterly, 72-80.
(2008). “The Cosmopolitan Jewish City” The Reconstructionist, 47-57 “Jews in the German Peace Movement.”
“Jews in the German Peace Movement” Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 2001: 277-301.

Bio
Dr. Levenson has written extensively on the Jewish experience for both scholarly and popular audiences. He is the author of five
books and many articles. Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932 was
nominated for a National Jewish Book Award Prize and his textbook An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers is widely used. He
has won a number of prestigious fellowships, and has lectured in the United States, Israel and Germany. Levenson’s first
professional commitment remains teaching undergraduate and graduate students to write, speak and read more effectively. He
has guided many undergraduate and graduate students to award-winning essays generated in his classes:

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Rabbi Dan Jonathan Lewin

University of North Texas

Office: 973-978-7419
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise: Lecture Topics:
Adjunct Professor Rabbinical Ordination—Kiryat Kaballah and Chassidism Introduction to Judaism
Philosophy Malachi, Israel Applied Kaballah and Jewish Mysticism
M.A., Rabbinical College of America The Kaballah of Sports (Explaining
B.A., University of Texas Struggle and the Soul’s thirst for Victory)

Bio
Rabbi Dan Lewin grew up in Dallas and graduated from Greenhill School, then attended the University of Texas at Austin. Upon
graduating with a degree in psychology, he went to Jerusalem to pursue religious studies. He then spent over 7 years at the
Rabbinical College of America and went on to receive rabbinical ordination. For the past 10 years, he has specialized in adult
education, being a member of an elite group of Rabbis around the country chosen to lead a Torah learning initiative. He has written
classes that are distributed worldwide. Prior to returning to Dallas in July of 2009, Rabbi Lewin spent three years at Binghamton
University where he and his wife founded an off campus satellite Chabad center that provided students and community with
ongoing classes, programs, and Friday night meals. He is currently the director of the Maayan Chai Foundation, an adjunct
professor at the University of North Texas, and writes a column for the Texas Jewish Post. He is also writing two books, one is on a
famous 17th century Dutch Art Collection and the other takes the esoteric teachings and fundamental principles in Kaballah and
Chassidism as applied to self-help.

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No photo Alfred C. Mierzejewski
available
University of North Texas

Office: 972-318-8829
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1985 Modern German Economic and Business
M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1981 History
B.A., History University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth Deutsche Reichsbahn and the Holocaust
Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung and the
Holocaust

Books
A History of the German Public Pension System: Continuity Amid Change. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming 2016.
Ludwig Erhard. Wegbereiter der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft. Eine Biographie. Munich: Siedler, Paperback edition, September 2006.
Translation of Ludwig Erhard. A Biography.
Hitler's Trains: The German National Railway & the Third Reich. Stroud, UK: Tempus, 2005. Revised version of The Most Valuable
Asset of the Reich. A History of the German National Railway, Vol. II, 1933-1945 for the British market.
Ludwig Erhard. A Biography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich. A History of the German National Railway, Vol. II, 1933-1945, Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2000. Paperback edition 2014.
Bomben auf der Reichsbahn. Der Zusammenbruch der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft, Freiburg-im-Breisgau: Eisenbahn-Kurier, 1993.
Translation of The Collapse of the German War Economy 1944-1945.
The Collapse of the German War Economy 1944-1945. Allied Air Power and the German National Railway, Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1988, second printing, 1995.

Articles
(forthcoming 2017). “Taking from the Weak, giving to the Strong: The Jews and the German Statutory Pension System, 1933-1945,”
Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
(2015). “Paradigm Shift: The Reform of the German Public Pension System in 2001,” Journal of Policy History, 27, (4), 695-721.
(2014). "Comparing Apples and Oranges; A Comparison of American and German Railways." In Regulation between Legal Norms
and Economic Reality: Intentions, Effects and Adaptation: The German and American Experiences. German Historical Institute,
Günther Schulz, ed. 201-224. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
(Summer 2012 ). "Plundering Pensions: The Destruction of the German Pension System by the Third Reich," The Historian, 74, 286-
306.
(January 2010). “Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977). Vater der sozialen Marktwirtschaft,” Damals, 42, 22-29.

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Stephen H. Norwood

University of Oklahoma

Office: 405-824-4469
Email: [email protected]
Norman, Oklahoma

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Professor of History and Judaic Studies Ph.D., Columbia University Antisemitism
M.A., Columbia University American Responses to the Holocaust
Far Left and Far Right Anti-Zionism

Books
Antisemitism and the American Far Left Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Editor (with Eunice G. Pollack), Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, 2 vols.

Articles
(May 2009). "American Jewish Muscle: Forging a New Masculinity in the Streets and in the Ring, 1890 - 1940," Modern Judaism,
American Jewish Muscle: Forging a New Masculinity in the Streets and in the Ring, 1890 - 1940.”
(2003). "Marauding Youth and the Christian Front: Anti-Semitic Violence in Boston and New York during World War II," American
Jewish History.
(2012.). "The Expulsion of Robert Burke: Suppressing Campus Anti-Nazi Protest in the 1930s," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism.
(2011). "Antisemitism in the Contemporary American University: Parallels with the Nazi Era," ACTA [Analysis of Current Trends in
Antisemitism].
(2013). "American Antisemitism in World War II," in Thomas W. Zeiler, ed., A Companion to World War II.

Bio
Dr. Norwood is Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of five books, most recently
Antisemitism and the American Far Left and The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower, which was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book
Award for Holocaust Studies. Norwood edited (with Eunice G. Pollack) the prize-winning 2-volume Encyclopedia of American Jewish
History. His articles have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He has given invited lectures at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem; the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem; the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the
Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York; the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles; the Pears Institute
for the Study of Antisemitism in London; the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna, Austria; and Yale University.

Zsuzsanna Ozsvath

University of Texas at Dallas

Office: 972-231-9650
Email: [email protected]
Richardson, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
The Leah and Paul Lewis Professor of Ph.D., In German Literature and Culture The Holocaust, Holocaust Literature
Holocaust Studies The University of Texas Austin, 1969 European literature 18th-20th century
Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies Concert Diploma Staatliche Hochschule Hungarian Anti-Semitism
für Musik Hamburg, Germany, 1961
Bartok Bela Zenemuveszeti Szakiskola
Budapest, Hungary, 1954

Books
Light within the Shade: Eight Hundred Years of Hungarian Poetry, Syracuse: University Press, 2014 (with Fred Turner).
Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti. Corvina, Budapest, 2014 (with Fred Turner).
When the Danube Ran Red, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010.
Orpheus nyomaban: Radnoti Miklos elete es kora. (Trans. Miklos Hernadi) Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 2004.
In the Footsteps of Orpheus: The Life and Times of Miklos Radnoti, Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2000.
The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems of Attila Jozsef. Bloodaxe, 1999 (with Fred Turner).
Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992 (with Fred Turner)
Presently, she is working on both her eighth and ninth book.

Articles
(2006). “Trauma and Distortion: Holocaust Fiction and the Ban on Jewish Memory in Hungary,” in The Holocaust in Hungary: Sixty
Years Later, Eds. R. L. Braham and Brewster S. Chamberlin. Columbia, UP.
(2008).“From Country to Country: My Search for Home,” in Writer Uprooted: Jewish Literature in Exile, Ed. Alvin Rosenfeld,
Bloomington, Indiana University Press, pp. 177-216.
“Visions of Catastrophy in the Poetry of Miklos Radnoti,” http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol 11/ iss1/2009.

Bio
Dr. Ozsvath became a full-professor in 1989 at The University of Texas at Dallas. In 2005, the University honored her with the title:
Professor of the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies. She teaches four-five courses each year on the Shoah and related
topics (Weimar Germany, From Wagner to Hitler, The Literature of the Holocaust, The Poetry of the Holocaust, Representations of
the Holocaust, The Holocaust, etc.). Over the years, she has taught a number of M.A. and Ph.D. students, many of whom are now
teaching the Shoah in high schools and various colleges all over the country. Dr. Ozsvath gives yearly fifteen to twenty talks on the
Holocaust and related topics to a large variety of audiences in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Dr. Ozsvath is also author of
approximately 60 articles and has published seven books. Presently, she is involved in the translation of a volume of poetry by
Goethe and in writing an article dealing with forced labor in Hungary, 1941-42.

Joshua Parens

University of Dallas

Office: 972-721-5241
Email: [email protected]
Irving, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Dean of Braniff Graduate School Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992 Islamic and Jewish Medieval Philosophy
Director of Institute of Philosophic Studies M.A., University of Chicago, 1988 Early Modern Philosophy
Co-Director of Jewish Studies B.A., St. John's College, 1984 Metaphysics
Concentration Political Philosophy
Professor in Departments of Philosophy Spinoza
and Politics

Books
Maimonides and Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
(Edited in collaboration with Joseph C. Macfarland:) Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook. 2nd edition. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2011.
An Islamic Philosophy of Virtuous Religions: Introducing Alfarabi. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's Laws. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Co-Editor with Douglas Kries of the book series Rochester Studies in Medieval Political Thought.
Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy (forthcoming with University of Rochester Press, May 2016).

Articles
(2013). “Strauss on Maimonides’s Secretive Political Science,” in Leo Strauss’s Defense of the Philosophic Life: Reading “What Is
Political Philosophy?” Rafe Major, ed., 116–36 Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(2006). “Leaving the Garden: Maimonides and Spinoza on the Imagination and Practical Intellect Revisited.” Philosophy & Theology
18:2, 219–246.
(2003 ). "Maimonidean Ethics Revisited: Development and Asceticism in Maimonides?" Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
12 (3),33–62.
(1994 )."Multiculturalism and the Problem of Particularism." American Political Science Review 88 (1), 169–181.
(1993). "Theory and Practice in Medieval Aristotelianism," Polity 26, 317–330.

Bio
Joshua Parens spent his last year of graduate work as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Before arriving at the University of
Dallas in 1997, he held postdoctoral positions at Michigan State University, Tel Aviv University, Georgetown University, and a NEH
Core Curriculum postdoc at Boston University. He became a Full Professor of Philosophy at UD in 2007 and Graduate Director in
Philosophy in 2009. He has taught over twenty courses and advised numerous Master’s theses and Ph.D. dissertations in UD’s
graduate program over the last eighteen years. He has given numerous talks and lectures in DFW to the Jewish community in
synagogues and at LearningFest. Currently, Joshua serves as chair of the North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors.

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David A Patterson

University of Texas at Dallas

Office: 901-484-9126
Email: [email protected]
Richardson, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University Anti-Semitism
of Oregon, 1978 Holocaust History, Literature
M.A., Comparative Literature, University Kabbalah
of Oregon, 1976 Israel
B.A., Philosophy, University of Oregon, Jewish Thought, Literature, and
1972 Philosophy

Books
The Holocaust and the Non-representable: Literary and Photographic Transcendence (SUNY Press, forthcoming).
Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Genocide in Jewish Thought Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008.

Articles
(2015). “Though the Messiah May Tarry: A Reflection on Redemption in Our Time,” in Post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian Dialogue:
After the Flood, Before the Rainbow, ed. Alan L. Berger (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books), 43-56.
(2014). “Hitler, Hamas, and Jihadist Jew Hatred,” in Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity, Vol. 4: Islamism and the Arab World
ed. Charles Asher Small New York: Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, 91-98.
(2013). “Victim Wartime Writing in Western Europe,” in Literature of the Holocaust: A Critical Introduction, ed. Alan Rosen
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 33-48.
(2013). “Wiesel’s Aggadic Outcry,” in Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives, ed. Alan Rosen and Steven T. Katz
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 190-200.
(2013). “The Nazi Assault on the Jewish Soul through the Murder of the Jewish Mother,” in Different Horrors, Same Hell, ed. Myrna
Goldenberg and Amy Shapiro, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 163-76.

Bio
David Patterson holds the Hillel A. Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies in the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the
University of Texas at Dallas. A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award, he has published
more than 35 books and more than 200 articles, essays, and book chapters.

Eunice G. Pollack

University Of North Texas

Office: 405-824-4469
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Department of History Ph.D., Columbia University African Americans & Anti-Semitism
M.A., Columbia University Antisemitism & Anti-Zionism
Anti-Zionism
Christianity & Antisemitism
Islam & Antisemitism

Books
Racializing Antisemitism: Black Militants, Jews, and Israel, 1950 - Present [booklet].
Editor, Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present.
Editor, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Past & Present (2016).
Editor (with Stephen H. Norwood), Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, 2 vols.

Articles
(2016). "Foundation Myths of Anti-Zionism" in Eunice G. Pollack, ed., Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Past & Present.
"Confronting Antisemitism on the Campus" in Eunice G. Pollack, ed., Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present 2011.
(2011). "African Americans and the Legitimization of Antisemitism on the Campus" in Eunice G. Pollack, ed., Antisemitism on the
Campus: Past & Present.
"Blacks and Jews" in Stephen H. Norwood and Eunice G. Pollack, eds., Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, 2 vols. 2009.

Bio
Eunice G. Pollack is the editor of a book series on Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the English-Speaking World. She is the author of
Racializing Antisemitism. She edited and wrote articles in Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present as well as Antisemitism and
Anti-Zionism: Past & Present. She is the editor (with Stephen H. Norwood) of the prize-winning 2-volume Encyclopedia of American
Jewish History. She has given invited talks at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem,
the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles; the Center for Jewish Culture, in Boston.

Bryan Mark Rigg

Independent

Office: 972-383-1210
Email: [email protected]
Dallas, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
William H. McKim Prize for significant new Ph.D., Cambridge University, European Holocaust History
historical research History, 2002 Third Reich
Henry Fellowship to conduct graduate studies M.A., Cambridge University, 1997
at Cambridge University B.A. Yale University, History, 1996

Books
When Angels Wore Swastikas: The Nazi Rescue of Rebbe Schneersohn and His Failure of Leadership, Kansas: 2016.
Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich, Kansas, 2009.
Rescued From the Reich: How One of Hitler’s Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe Yale, 2004.
Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Race Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military Kansas: 2002.

Articles
(Winter 2013). “Through the Eyes of four more of the Luftwaffe’s Most Important Commanders.” World War II Quarterly, Review of
Colin Heaton’s German Aces Speak II: World War II.
(Winter 2013). “Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers”, World War II Quarterly.
(Winter 2013). “When Angels Wore Swatiskas,” Historia Do Rzeczy.”
(Spring 2009). “Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: Questions of Identity and Morality in the Third Reich.” article in the book Jewish/Christian/
Queer: Crossroads and Identities.
(Fall 2008). Review of Kerstin von Lingen’s Kesselring’s Last Battle: War Crime Trials and Cold War Politics 1945-1960 for The
University Press of Kansas.
(May 2008). “Night Fighters: Luftwaffe and RAF Air Combat Over Europe 1939-1945.” review of Colin Heaton and Anne-Marie
Lewis’ for Naval Institute Press.
(May 2008). Damned: Snapshots from the Third Reich, review of Paul Garson’s Album for Academy Chicago Publishers.

Bio
Bryan Mark Rigg received his B.A. with honors in history from Yale University in 1996. Yale awarded him the Henry Fellowship for
graduate study at Cambridge University, where he received his M.A. in 1997.

Currently an adjunct professor of military history at American Military University, he has served as a volunteer in the Israeli Army
and as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. His research for this book has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
and London Daily Telegraph. He is the author of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, Rescued from the Reich, Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
and The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers. He is on the boards of American Jewish Committee and the Dallas Holocaust Museum. He
currently has his own financial firm, Rigg Wealth Management LLC.

Nils Roemer

University of Texas at Dallas

Office: 972-883-2769
Email: [email protected]
Richardson, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Director of the Ackerman Center for Ph.D., Columbia University, 2000 Holocaust
Holocaust Studies M.A., University of Hamburg, 1993 Jewish Thought
Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor of Modern Jewish History
Holocaust Studies

Books
German Cities – Jewish Memories: The Story of Worms. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2010.
Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith. Madison: Wisconsin University Press,
2005 (Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature).
Nils Roemer and Thomas Adam, ed. Crossing the Atlantic: Travel and Travel Writing in Modern Times. Arlington: Texas A&M
University Press, 2011.
Nils Roemer and Gideon Reuveni, Jewish Longings and Belongings in Modern European Consumer Culture. Leiden/Boston: Brill
Publishers, 2010.
Neil Gregor, Nils Roemer, Mark Roseman, ed., German History from the Margins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Articles
(2015). “German Jews in Paris: Traversing Modernity,” Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2 (3).
(2015). “Space and Memory in German Jewish History,” Simone Lässig and Miram Rürup, ed. Space and Spacelessness in Modern
German-Jewish History Berghan.
(2005). “The City of Worms in Modern Jewish Traveling Cultures of Remembrance,” Jewish Social Studies, 12, 67-91.
(2009). “London and the East End as Spectacles of Urban Tourism,” JQR 99, 3, 416-434.
(2009). “Jewish Traveling Cultures and the Competing Visions of Modernity,” Central European History 42 (2), 429-449.

Bio
Nils Roemer is the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor at University of Texas at Dallas and Director of the Ackerman Center for
Holocaust Studies. He received in 1993 his M.A. from the University of Hamburg and in 2000 his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
He published numerous books, articles and co-edited several volumes. He is also the co-editor of “Germanic Review”. His special
fields of interest are Jewish cultural and intellectual history, and the Holocaust.

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Richard S. Ruderman

University of North Texas

Office: 214-264-7053
Email: [email protected]
Denton, Texas

Information: Degrees: Expertise:
Associate Professor of Political Science Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1990 American Politics
M.A., University of Chicago, 1990 Jewish Philosophy
B.A., University of Toronto, 1980 Judaism and Modern Political Thought
Political Philosophy
Medieval Jewish Thought

Books
Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s, co-edited with Martin D. Yaffe Palgrave, 2014.

Articles
(2012). "A Slingshot Recoils: The Critique of Philosophy in Halevi's Kuzari" Recovering Classical Rationalism, ed. Timothy Burns
Lexington.
(2015). "On Leo Strauss’ Presentation of Xenophon’s Political Philosophy in 'The Problem of Socrates'” in "Brill's Companion to Leo
Strauss' Writings on Classical Political Thought." Ed., Timothy Burns Brill.
(2003). “’Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land’: William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolition of Slavery.” History
of American Political Thought Edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga Lexington.
(1999). “Odysseus and the Possibility of Enlightenment.” American Political Science Review .

Bio
Richard Ruderman has been teaching political philosophy, Jewish thought, and American politics at the University of North Texas
since 1993. He was Chair of the department from 2010-2014. He has taught over twenty courses and advised numerous Master’s
theses and Ph.D. dissertations in UNT’s graduate program over the last twenty years. He has been a Fellow at the Schusterman
Center for Israel Studies since the summer of 2009.