Affiliated Faculty

Alana Shuster

Hebrew Language Instructor
Jewish Studies Program
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, 6th floor room 647
Email: ashuster@ucsd.edu

Professor Alain Cohen

Department of Literature
Phone: (858) 534-3489
Email: ajjcohen@ucsd.edu

https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/ajjcohen.html

Associate Professor Marc Garellek

Department of Linguistics
Phone: (858) 534-2412
Email: mgarellek@ucsd.edu

https://linguistics.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/profiles/marc-garellek.html

Deborah Hertz, Ph.D.

Professor and Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies

University of Minnesota, 1979

Department of History

Office: Arts and Humanities Building Room 919

Phone: (858) 534-5501

Email: dhertz@ucsd.edu

https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/hertz.html 

Deborah Hertz was trained in graduate school as a historian of Germany, with a focus on the late eighteenth century and on German Jewry. She has written two books about conversion and assimilation among Jews in Germany, especially in Berlin. Her current project is a history of radical Jewish women in Russia and Palestine. In that book-in-progress she seeks to understand which of the modern political movements at the close of the nineteenth century offered greater personal and career satisfaction to young women eager to change the world.

Hertz's teaching has addressed topics in modern Jewish history, including the Holocaust, Zionism and modern Israel, and the history of Jewish women and the Jewish family. She is fascinated by the challenge of understanding the modern Jewish experience in the context of racism, religious tradition, and modern nationalism Professor Hertz enjoys bringing undergraduate students together with Holocaust survivors and the wider public engaged with history. Along with Brian Schottlaender, University Librarian, she co-founded and co-directs the Holocaust Living History Workshop, which offers public programs throughout the year on the UCSD campus.

Professor Dayna Kalleres

Department of Literature
Phone: 858-534-22798
Email: dkalleres@ucsd.edu

https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/dkalleres.html

Assistant Professor Isabel Rivera-Collazo

Department of Anthropology
Phone: (858) 246-2331
Email: iriveracollazo@ucsd.edu

https://anthropology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/isabel-rivera-collazo.html

Distinguished Professor Gershon Shafir

Department of Sociology
Phone: 858-534-2575
Email: gshafir@ucsd.edu

https://sociology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty%20members/gershon-shafir.html

Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Ph.D.

Department of Literature
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, room 239
Phone: 858-822-0204
Email: llampert@ucsd.edu

https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/llampertweissig.html

Lisa Lampert-Weissig is a specialist in medieval literature and culture with a particular interest in medieval Jewish-Christian relations and the history of anti-Semitism. She has published on representations of Jews and Judaism in literatures in Middle English, Old French and Middle High German as well as on modern German-Jewish literature and on representations of Jews and Judaism in contemporary U.S. culture. She is especially interested in engaging the enduring impact of medieval literature and culture in the contemporary world.

Mira Balberg, PhD.

Professor and David Goodblatt Chair in Ancient Jewish Civilization
Stanford University, 2011

Department of History
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, room 843
Phone: (858) 246-5740

Email: mbalberg@ucsd.edu

https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/balberg.html

Mira Balberg  is a scholar of ancient Mediterranean religious history, with a focus on the emergence and development of Judaism in antiquity (200 BCE–500 CE). She is especially interested in the cultural contacts of Jews with their surrounding communities and with the imperial forces that shaped the Middle East in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Her main specialty is Judaism in Roman Syria-Palestine in late antiquity, and particularly the development of rabbinic Judaism in this period. Balberg is the author of Gateway to Rabbinic Literature (The Open University of Israel Press, 2013),  Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2014), and Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2017).