Our Governance
Center for Jewish Studies Executive Committee
(as of August 31, 2017)
Director:
David Stern
Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and
Professor of Comparative Literature
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Department of Comparative Literature
Cell phone: 267-307-5287
Office phone: 617-495-3977
Email: dstern@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Semitic Museum 209
Executive Steering Committee Members:
Irit Aharony
Senior Preceptor in Modern Hebrew
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Phone: 617-495-7382
Email: aharony@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Vanserg 121
Shaye J.D. Cohen
Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Phone: 617-496-6422
Email: scohen@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Semitic Museum 105
Noah Feldman
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows
Harvard Law School
Phone: 617-495-9140
nfeldman@law.harvard.edu
Office: Hauser 210
Sara Feldman
Preceptor in Yiddish
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Phone: 617-495-4676
Email: sarafeldman@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Vanserg 122
Luis Girón Negrón
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Phone: 617-495-2567
Email: giron@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Dana Palmer House 104
Peter E. Gordon
Amabel B. James Professor of History; Affiliate of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Affiliate of the Department of Philosophy
Center for European Studies
Phone: 617-998-5419
Email: pgordon@fas.harvard.edu
Office: 27 Kirkland Street 305
Jay M. Harris
Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies, Dean of Undergraduate Education
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Phone: 617-495-0829
Email: jharris@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Semitic Museum 107
Joseph Koerner
Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Phone: 617-496-3997
Email: koerner@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Sackler Building 520
Jon D. Levenson
Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies
Harvard Divinity School
Phone: 617-495-5955
Email: jon_levenson@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Divinity Hall 321
Eric Nelson
Robert M. Beren Professor of Government
Department of Government
Phone: 617-496-1737
Email: enelson@fas.harvard.edu
Office: CGIS, Knafel Building, Room 403
Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History
Department of History
Phone: 617-998-5408
Email: dpenslar@fas.harvard.edu
Office: 27 Kirkland Street 201
Andrew Teeter
Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Harvard Divinity School
Phone: 617-496-2992
Email: ateeter@hds.harvard.edu
Office: Divinity Hall 305
Saul Zaritt
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Department of Comparative Literature
Phone: 617-495-1715
Email: zaritt@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Dana Palmer House 206
Advisory Committee Members:
Charles Berlin
Lee M. Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica
Harvard College Library
Widener Library, Judaica Division
Phone: 617-495-2985
Email: cberlin@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Widener Library M
Stephen Greenblatt
John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities
Department of English
Phone: 617-495-2101
Email: greenbl@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Barker Center 154
Paul J. Kosmin
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities; Joy Foundation Fellow
Department of the Classics
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Phone: 617-495-1926
Email: pjkosmin@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Boylston Hall 215
Kevin J. Madigan
Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History
Harvard Divinity School
Phone: 617-496-6673
Email: kmadigan@hds.harvard.edu
Office: Andover Hall 403
Kay K. Shelemay
Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies
Department of Music
Department of African and African American Studies
Phone: 617-495-4008
Email: shelemay@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Music Building 6
Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of African and African American Studies
Phone: 617-495-5273
Email: dsommer@fas.harvard.edu
Office: Boylston Hall 417