Louis Schubert is a Professor of Political Science at City College of San Francisco, where he teaches a wide variety of courses ranging from Political Theory and Environmental Politics to American Government and Terrorism/Counterterrorism. He is lead author of The Irony of Democracy. His “Comics, Power and Society” course, a student favorite, turned his love of the comic book into an academic pursuit. Teaching the Jewish historical and ethical roots of comics at Cal has been a special joy. Being able to offer a course on the relationship between...
Jonathan Sheehan is an historian with particular interests in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe, the history of religion, science, and scholarship. Other areas include: the history of secularism and secularization, Jewish-Christian relations, the history of the disciplines, the afterlife of the Protestant Reformation, and the history of reading and print culture. He is co-founder and co-director from 2012-2019 of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
Curator, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Music
A multidisciplinary scholar focusing on Jewish studies, music and digital media, Francesco Spagnolo is the Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests intersect textual, visual and musical cultures, and he continuolsy contributes to academic and cultural heritage institutions, live and electronic media in Europe, Israel and the US.
Francesco received a BA (equivalent) in Music from the Conservatory of Milan (1986),...
Ronit Y. Stahl is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and a faculty affiliate of the religious diversity cluster of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. She is a historian of modern America and her work focuses on religious pluralism in American society by examining how politics, law, and religion interact in institutions. Her first book, Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2017) demonstrates how, despite the constitutional separation of church and state, the federal...
Scott Straus is a professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, and an affiliate of the Center for Jewish Studies. He previously served as the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as the Chair and Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science. Straus received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2004.
For many years, Alan Tansmanhas taught courses on cultural responses to atrocity in the Jewish and Japanese experience, but reaching beyond those cases to examples from Africa, the United States, Indonesia, and Europe. He has published on the pedagogy of teaching atrocity comparatively and on the Japanese photography of atrocity. He is now writing a book that treats the aesthetics and form of cultural work (in the above cases) that struggles for a non-figurative response to violence.
Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture; Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Estelle Tarica is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University (2000). In her research and teaching she examines colonial legacies of race in modern Latin America, Indigenous and Jewish memory cultures, and the transformative power of testimony, fiction and poetry. Her first book, The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), explores the subjective effects of racialized national...
Jason Wittenberg is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. A former Academy Scholar at Harvard University, he has been a visiting scholar at the Helen Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame; a Fulbright scholar at the Central European University in Budapest; and a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. Professor Wittenberg has published widely on topics including electoral behavior, ethnic and religious violence, historical legacies, and empirical research methods. His first book, Crucibles of Political Loyalty:...