
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
Early modern Ottoman history and intellectual history Assistant Professor of History
oscaragm@sas.upenn.edu215-898-0421
College Hall 208 DRead Bio

Anne Albert
Klatt Family Director for Public Programs, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Lecturer in the Department of History

Joseph Benatov
Director, Modern Hebrew Language Program Lecturer in Foreign Languages, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Associate Director, Jewish Studies Program
712 Williams HallRead Bio

Alexander Botwinik
Lecturer in Yiddish

Daisy Braverman
Lecturer in Judeo-Spanish
Penn Language CenterRead Bio

Natalie Dohrmann
Associate Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; Coeditor of the Jewish Quarterly Review Adjunct Associate Professor of Religious Studies
dohrmann@sas.upenn.edu215-746-1290
The Katz Center, 420 Walnut StreetRead Bio

Laura Newman Eckstein
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities

Al Filreis
Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House Kelly Professor of English
afilreis@english.upenn.edu(215) 573-9749
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust WalkRead Bio

Talya Fishman
Associate Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
tfishman@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-5837
706 Williams HallRead Bio

Nili Gold
Professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature
niligold@sas.upenn.edu(215) 573-5312
707 Williams HallRead Bio

Simcha Gross
Assistant Professor of Ancient Rabbinics

Josef Gulka
Circulation & Stack Manager
jgulka@pobox.upenn.edu(215-746-1290)
206 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio

Kathryn Hellerstein
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Yiddish)
khellers@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-7103
748 Williams HallRead Bio

Timothy Hogue
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite History and Culture
709 Williams HallRead Bio

Joshua Jeffers
Lecturer in Akkadian and Biblical Hebrew

Hope Jones
Project Archivist
501 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library CenterRead Bio

Arthur Kiron
Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections
kiron@pobox.upenn.edu(215) 573-7431
205 Van Pelt Library on MTR; 202 CAJS Library on WFRead Bio

Martina Mampieri
Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

Marina Mayorski
Goldin Family Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025

Louis Meiselman
Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
501 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
201 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio

Ibrahim Miari
Lecturer in Foreign Languages (Hebrew Language)
imiari@sas.upenn.edu215-898-6037
708 Williams HallRead Bio

Benjamin Nathans
Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Associate Professor of History
bnathans@history.upenn.edu(215) 898-4958
206C College HallRead Bio

Bruce Nielsen
Judaica Public Services Librarian & Archivist
bnielsen@pobox.upenn.edu (215-746-1290)
203 Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic StudiesRead Bio

Heather Sharkey
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

Jasmin Shinohara
Hebraica Cataloging Librarian
jshino@upenn.edu(215-746-6397)
131 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Read Bio

Joshua Teplitsky
Joseph Meyerhoff Chair in Modern Jewish History Associate Professor, Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program

Chrissy Walsh
Administrative Coordinator, Jewish Studies Program

Liliane Weissberg
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences Professor of German and Comparative Literature
lweissbe@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-7332
747 Williams HallRead Bio

Steven Weitzman
Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures Ella Darivoff; Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies

Beth S. Wenger
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History
bwenger@sas.upenn.edu(215) 898-5702
320 College HallRead Bio

Julia Wilker
Associate Professor of Classical Studies Chair, Graduate Group in Ancient History
wilker@sas.upenn.edu215-746-7792
227 Cohen HallRead Bio

Barbara Zelizer
Professor of Communication and Raymond Williams Chair of Communication
bzelizer@asc.upenn.edu(215) 898-4964
304 AnnenbergRead Bio