Nicholas Baeris Assistant Professor in the Department of German at UC Berkeley. He is author of Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, forthcoming in 2024) and co-editor of two volumes of film and media theory: The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907–1933 (University of California Press, 2016) and Unwatchable (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Baer has published on film and digital media, aesthetics, critical...
Lilla Balint is Assistant Professor of German in the Department of German at University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century German literature, culture, and intellectual history in its broader comparative contexts. At UC Berkeley, she is affiliated with the Institute for European Studies and the Jewish Studies Program.
Professor Balint received her Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University in 2014, where she was recipient of the Ric Weiland Graduate Student Fellowship and Stanford’s Centennial Teaching Award and she...
Assistant Professor, Ancient Mediterranean and Ethiopic Studies
Yonatan Binyam is Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean and Ethiopic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Before coming to Berkeley, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He earned his Ph.D. from Florida State University, where he wrote his dissertation on the receptions of Josephus’s Jewish War within late-antique Latin and medieval Hebrew, Copto-Arabic, and Ge’ez (or Ethiopic) historiographical traditions. In addition to the receptions of ancient Greek and Latin works within medieval Ethiopic literature, his...
Isaac L. Bleaman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics. His research interests include sociolinguistic variation, language contact and multilingualism, language maintenance, and language change. He addresses these broad areas by analyzing how individuals and communities speak and write in Yiddish. Bleaman is also an experienced language teacher, having taught Yiddish at the YIVO Summer Program and the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter-Ring in New York. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Linguistics from New York University, an M.St. in Yiddish Studies from the...
Robert Braun received his PhD from Cornell University in 2017. Before joining Berkeley, he taught sociology and political science at Northwestern University. His research focuses on Jewish-Christian relationships in times of social upheaval and has been published in the American Journal of Sociology and the American Political Science Review. His first book “Protectors of Pluralism” tries to explain why some local communities stepped up to protect Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust while others refrained from doing so and is forthcoming at Cambridge University...
John Connelly is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History and Director of the Institute for East European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies. He earned his BSFS from Georgetown University, an MA (in Russian and East European Studies) from the University of Michigan, and a Phd from Harvard University.
His scholarship focuses on the history of East and Central Europe, with special concern for problems of religious and ethnic identity in multinational space.
He has published Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish Higher...
John Efron is the Koret Professor of Jewish History at U.C. Berkeley. He specializes in the cultural and social history of German Jewry. His scholarship is focused on the ways that German Jewry has attempted to reinterpret and reinvent Jewish culture in the wake of its complex encounter with modernity. In particular, he has written on the German-Jewish engagement with medicine, anthropology, and antisemitism. His publications include Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (Yale, 1994), Jewish...
SaraGuyer is a professor of English, affiliate of the Center for Jewish Studies, and also serves as President of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and director of The World Humanities Report. She has designed international programs to foster collaborative research on pressing issues including democracy, climate change, migration, and health inequality. Until August 2021, she was Dorothy Puestow Draheim Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she...
Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies
Ron Hassner is the Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at the University of California Berkeley. He is also the faculty director of the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and is the editor of the Cornell University Press book series “Religion and Conflict.” Prof. Hassner studies the role of ideas, practices, and symbols in international security with particular attention to the relationship between religion and violence.
