CJS Executive Committee

Steering Committee:

Shaye J.D. Cohen, Director
Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Peter E. Gordon
Professor of History
Department of History

Rachel Greenblatt
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jay M. Harris
Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jon D. Levenson
Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies
Divinity School

Peter Machinist
Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Luis Girón Negrón
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Eric Nelson
Associate Professor of Government
Department of Government

Bernard Septimus
Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Ruth R. Wisse
Professor of Yiddish Literature and of Comparative Literature
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Advisory Committee:

Avi Matalon
Assistant Professor
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jonathan W. Schofer
Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethics
Divinity School

Irit Aharony
Preceptor in Modern Hebrew
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Charles Berlin
Lee M. Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica, Head
Harvard College Library

Noah Feldman
Bemis Professor of Law
Law School

Marshall Goldman
Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies

Stephen Greenblatt
Cogan University Professor of the Humanities
Department of English

Anna Grinfeld
Preceptor in Modern Hebrew
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Jeffrey Hamburger
Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture
Department of History of Art and Architecture

Kevin Madigan
Professor of the History of Christianity
Divinity School

Kay Shelemay
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies
Department of Music and Department of African and African American Studies

Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Susan Suleiman
C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Andrew Teeter
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Divinity School

Yuri Vedenyapin
Preceptor in Yiddish
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Visiting Professors

Reuven Hazan, Associate Professor in Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nachshon Visiting Professor, Dept. of Government (Fall Term)

Samuel Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of Judaic Studies at Trinity College
Leon I Mirell Visiting Professor, Dept. of History (Fall Term)

Robert Liberles, Professor of Modern Jewish History at Ben Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel
Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish History, Dept. of History (Spring Term)