Faculty

Breit (Emeritus) Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. Related Research Teaching Interests: The Holocaust, Totalitarianism. Academic Discipline: Politics and Government

Freund, Richard Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary. Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. Related Research and Teaching Interests: The Archaeology of the Land of Israel, Biblical Studies, Jewish Ethics and Philosophy. Academic Discipline: History.

Patt, Avinoam Ph.D., New York University. Assistant Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. Director of the Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization. Related Research and Teaching Interests: Modern European Jewish History, History of the Holocaust, History of Zionism and the State of Israel, American Jewish History. Academic Discipline: History.

Rosenthal, Steven Ph.D., Yale University. Related Research and Teaching Interests: Modern Middle East, Ottoman history, Modern Jewish history, Arabs and Israel. Academic Discipline: History

Stull, William Ph.D., University of California. Related Research and Teaching Interests: Bible as Literature. Academic Discipline: English

Darawsha, Maha Konover Adjunct Professor of Arabic Language and Culture and Archaeology M,A, University of Connecticut Related Research and Teaching: Archaeology (assistant Director of Bethsaida Excavations Project, Nazareth Excavations Project and Yavne Excavations Project), Arabic Language and Culture, Islam and Judaism

Abu Rabia, Hazza Adjunct professor of Arabic Language and Culture M.A, University of Connecticut Related Research and Teaching: Judaism and Islam, Jerusalem of the Jews, Christians and Muslims, Arabic Language and Culture 2007 Brandeis University Israel Studies Institute Participant

Pick Ph.D., Bar Ilan University. Related Research and Teaching Interests: Talmud, Ashkenazic Jewish history, Jewish law. Academic Discipline: Talmud and Rabbinics.

Rubinfeld M.A., Jewish Theological Seminary. Related Research and Teaching Interests: Hebrew language and literature. Academic Discipline: Hebrew College

Macy, Jeffrey Ph. D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2007 University of Hartford and the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford. Related Research and Teaching: Maimonides, Medieval Jewish and Islamic Political Thought

Silver, Matthew Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2004-2005 University of Hartford, Central Connecticut State University and the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford Visiting Professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford. Interests: Middle East politics, Media in the Middle East, American Jewish History. Academic