Judaic Studies Affiliated Faculty
Michael Aronson
Associate Professor
Cinema Studies
Email: aronson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3927
Office: 101 PLC, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-6223
Research Interests: Early and transitional cinema (particularly the 1910s), exhibition and moviegoing culture, and lots of digital stuff
Monique Balbuena
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: balbuena@uoregon.edu
Office: 345 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Research Interests: Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Sephardic Languages, Ladino, Poetry, French and Francophone Literatures, Latin American Studies
Shaul Cohen
Associate Professor
Director, UO Prison Education Program; Director, Carnegie Global Oregon Ethics Program
Geography
Email: scohen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4500
Office: 107G Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-3:30PM, or by appointment
Research Interests: Prison Education, Ethics, Ethno-territorial conflict, Environment
Rick Colby
Associate Professor
Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Religious Studies
Email: fscolby@uoregon.edu
Deborah Green
Greenberg Associate Professor, Hebrew Language & Literature
Humanities Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: dagreen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5974
Office: 352 Susan Campbell Hall, 1267 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1267
Office Hours: TBA
Gina Herrmann
Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: gah@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-654-2705
Office: 220 Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: Monday 10-12 via Zoom, please text in advance<br />
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Research Interests: Communist and Leftist Studies, Holocaust Studies, Spanish Memory Studies
David Hollenberg
Associate Professor
Arabic and Islamic Studies
Arabic Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: dbh@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8096
Office: 349 Susan Campbell Hall, 1294 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1294
Office Hours: Thursday 12:00pm-1:00pm and by appointment
Heidi Kaufman
Associate Professor
English
Email: hkaufman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3932
Office: 327 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring Term: F 10am-1pm & by appt.
Anne Laskaya
Associate Professor, Emerita
English
Email: laskaya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1517
Office: 454 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Winter Term 2025 : Via Zoom M 11-1 pm, & by appointment.<br />
Please email me to arrange an individual appointment and for Zoom room information, <br />
if you need it: laskaya@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Medieval Literary and Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Word and Image in late Medieval Manuscript Culture, Rhetoric
Jeffrey S. Librett
Professor of German & Scandinavian
Department Head, Director of Graduate Studies
German & Scandinavian, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: jlibrett@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0649
Office: 327 Friendly Hall, 1250 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1250
Office Hours: Winter 2023: Tuesday 3:30-5:00pm and by appointment (through email)
Research Interests: German, French, and English letters; Enlightenment, Counter-enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernism; literature, philosophy, critical theory, inter-arts discourse, Judaic Studies, psychoanalysis, film
David Luebke
Professor
Katherine G. Brady & Thomas A. Brady, Jr., Roger Chickering & Alison Baker Professor of Central European Histories
Food Studies, History
Email: dluebke@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2394
Office: 357 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Kris Seaman
Associate Professor
Classics, History Art & Arch
Email: kseaman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7312
Office: 251C Lawrence Hall
Research Interests: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
Steven Shankman
Professor Emeritus
UNESCO Chair in Transcultural Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, and Peace
English
Email: shankman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3997
Office: 373 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Not teaching ENG this term; available via email
Research Interests: Comparative literature, the classical tradition in English and American literature, the eighteenth century, and the history of literary theory
David Wacks
Professor of Spanish
Medieval Studies, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: wacks@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4029
Office: 105C Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours: On leave through Spring 2025
Research Interests: Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies