Koret Visiting Professor of Israel Studies, Helen Diller Center for Jewish Law and Israel Studies; and Visiting Professor of Education, School of Education
Hanan Alexander is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Education at the University of Haifa where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Education, Dean of Students, Head of the International School, and Head of the Center for Jewish and Democratic Education. He currently serves as Koret Visiting Professor of Israel Studies in the Helen Diller Center for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and Visiting Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He also taught at American Jewish University, where he was Academic Vice President, UCLA...
Lecturer, Jewish Studies; Program Director, Antisemitism Education Initiative
Hired in January 2023, Dr. Gregg Drinkwater is the inaugural Program Director for the UC Berkeley Antisemitism Education Initiative (AEI), a project of the Center for Jewish Studies. An award-winning writer, educator, trainer, researcher, and organizational leader, Drinkwater’s work is rooted in fostering inclusive communities. He has been involved for decades with Jewish, LGBTQ, and social justice organizations throughout the United States and the world. He earned a PhD in U.S....
Librarian for Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Philosophy and Rhetoric
Ruth Haber is the UCB Librarian for Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Philosophy and Rhetoric. She completed her PhD in Jewish Studies at Berkeley with a dissertation on ancient travel tales. Ruth is here to help students and faculty find the materials they need for their coursework, research and writing – and to help scholars navigate the UC Library and the research process. Schedule an appointment with Ruth – or contact her at...
JennaKemp is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible in the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. She holds an MA in biblical studies from the Graduate Theological Union (2014) and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley from the MELC department in the area of Hebrew Bible with a designated emphasis in Jewish Studies (2021). Before joining the faculty in MELC, she held a postdoc position at Universität Basel in the Theologische Fakultät (2021-2024), working on a project entitled “Transforming Memories of Collective Violence in the Hebrew Bible,” an Eccelenza research project...
Sarah Levin is a Lecturer in Jewish Studies. Levin’s research interests focus on Jewish communities of North Africa and the Middle East and Jewish-Muslim relations, particularly in cultural encounters and exchanges. Levin received her PhD in Jewish Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Folklore from UC Berkeley in 2017. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Poetic Dueling, Storytelling, and Joking: Moroccan Atlas Mountain Jews and Muslims Remember Each Other. This project examines 20th-century Jewish-Muslim relations through 21st-century memories (recorded from...
Research Interests: troubadour poetry, Iberian Jewry, aljamiado literature, translation theory, theory of the lyric, minority- and historical languages of the Iberian Peninsula, literature and the environment, historical metrics and poetics.
Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel, as a culture, religion, nationality, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law, state...
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...
Yael Segalovitz is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her work spans American, Hebrew, and Brazilian modernisms, and she also has translated between the three languages She is presently completing a book on the global circulation of close reading as a technique of the self geared towards the production of attentive subjects. Her next project relocates this disciplinary self-reflexivity in the new millennium, examining the reemergence of psychoanalysis as a literary critical and...
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),...
