Faculty Advisory Committee

Allan Havis

Jewish Studies Director

Professor

Yale School of Drama

Department of Theater and Dance
Office: GH 309
Phone: 858-534-8597
Email: ahavis@ucsd.edu

 https://theatre.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/playwriting/allan-havis.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, Ph.D.

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).

Amelia Glaser, Ph.D.

Professor and Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies
Stanford University, 2004

Department of Literature
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, room 347
Phone: (858) 534-3809
Email: amglaser@ucsd.edu 

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

Amelia Glaser is professor of Slavic and comparative literature and holds the endowed chair in Judaic Studies. Her work focuses on Jewish-Slavic literary exchange, and she has written extensively on Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian literature from the nineteenth century to the present. She is the author of  Jews and Ukrainians: From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop (Northwestern U.P., 2012), and Songs in Dark Times (Harvard U.P., 2020); the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford U.P., 2015) and, with Steven Lee, Comintern Aesthetics, and the translator of Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets (Wisconsin U.P., 2005). She is currently the associate director of the Institute for Arts and Humanities.

Marc Garellek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Linguistics
Office: APM 4202

Phone:858-534-2412

Email: mgarellek@ucsd.edu

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

Marc Garellek received his BA in linguistics from McGill University and his MA and PhD in linguistics from UCLA. His research focuses on phonetics, in particular the phonetics of laryngeal sounds, and addresses three general questions. First, what is the range of laryngeal sounds that are used in languages of the world? Second, how do these sounds contribute to linguistic meaning? Third, how are such sounds articulated by speakers, what are their acoustic properties, and which properties are perceived by listeners? To answer these questions, Marc relies on a variety of instrumental tools and on data from many languages, including Hmong, Mazatec, Tongan, Spanish, Taa (!Xóõ), and Armenian.