People - Durham University

Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics

People

Steering Committee

Prof Yulia Egorova (director)
Prof IlanZvi Baron (co-director)
Dr Susan Frenk
Dr Zoe Roth
Dr Noam Leshem

Members

Name, Department	Specialisms
Prof Yulia Egorova, Department of Anthropology	Anthropology of Judaism and Jewish communities. Constructions of identity and difference Jewish-Muslim relations Definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia
Prof Ilan Baron, SGIA	Diaspora/Israel relations The Israelization of Diaspora identity Jewish political thought, especially Hannah Arendt and more generally the idea of a Diaspora political and moral philosophy.
Dr Zoë Roth, MLAC, French	Francophone Jewish writing and visual culture Intersection of postcolonial studies and Jewish studies Transnational approaches to Holocaust memory Race, embodiment, and lived experience.
Dr Noam Leshem, Geography	Political geographies and histories Activism and political protest Urban conflict and resilience Postcolonial theory Jewish political theology.
Prof Mark Sandy, English	Post-War Twentieth-Century Jewish American literature, especially the legacies of Romanticism in the writings of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.
Prof Stuart Weeks, Theology	Biblical wisdom literature Relationship between biblical and ancient Egyptian literature Text criticism, esp. Septuagint
Prof Kay Schiller, History	19th and 20th-century German-Jewish history Sports history, especially the history of football Modern German cultural and intellectual history Post-1945 Germany.
Professor Clive Jones, SGIA	Professor Jones is the current chair of the European Association of Israel Studies, a board member of the Israel institute and on the editorial board of the Israel Studies Review and Middle Eastern Studies. Israeli foreign and defence policy Jewish Diasporas in the Arab World Israel’s insurgent citizens: the ‘Hardal’ and challenges to the State’.
Dr Emma Poulton, School of Applied Social Sciences	Antisemitism within the context of football Jewish identity within football.
Dr Yael Almog, School of Modern Languages	German-Jewish encounters Hermeneutics and literary theory Literature and political philosophy

Visiting Fellows

Name, Role	Specialisms
Dr Kahn-Harris, sociologist and lecturer	the contemporary British Jewish community, the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Jews in the Diaspora Jews and popular music.
Rabbi, Dr Barbara Borts	Jewish history and culture Contemporary Jewish theology Women and Judaism Social issues and Judaism Anthropology of contemporary Jewish cultures Music and religion.

Honorary Fellows

Dr Bruno Chaouat (University of Minnesota)
Professor Sander Gilman (Emory College of Arts and Sciences)
Nitza Spiro (Spiro Ark)