Academic Visitors 2025-2026

This page will be updated periodically during the academic year.

The Center for Jewish Studies sponsors Visiting Professors and Lecturers in a variety of academic disciplines to supplement our course offerings in Jewish studies.
We also host several research scholars each year:

  • Harry Starr Fellows in Judaica: a group of scholars (from post-doctoral fellows to senior faculty) in a particular field of Jewish studies for a semester or a year to conduct full-time research at Harvard
  • Alan M. Stroock Fellows for Advanced Research in Judaica: for Post-doctoral Fellows and Visiting Scholars to conduct research at Harvard. Some scholars who apply for the Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica are offered the Stroock Fellowship to join the Harry Starr Fellows in Judaica cohort. This fellowship may also be used to support Scholars at Risk.
  • Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow: for an active congregational rabbi to spend a semester conducting full-time, independent research at Harvard
  • Visiting Scholars, Associates, and Research Associates in many areas of Jewish studies to come to Harvard to conduct independent research at Harvard

Visiting Professors & Lecturers

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Justin Cammy

 Professor of Jewish Studies and of Comparative Literature, Smith College

Visiting Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations – Fall 2025

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Hasia Diner

Professor Emerita, Departments of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies,
New York University; Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. 

Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard Divinity School – Academic Year 2025-26
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Moshe Halbertal

Gruss Professor of Law, NYU
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Weinstock Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law, Harvard Law School – Spring 2026
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Kathryn Hellerstein

Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Yiddish), University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature – Spring 2026

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Susannah Heschel

Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College

Joseph Engel Visiting Professor
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Harvard Divinity School – Academic Year 2025-26
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Jessica Marglin

Professor of Religion, Law and History, University of Southern California

Visiting Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations – Academic Year 2025-26

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Jules Riegel

Lecturer on History and Literature, Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, Harvard University

Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer, Department of History – Spring 2026

Harry Starr Fellows in Judaica:

2025-2026 Theme: Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah

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Chaim Elly Moseson

Starr Postdoctoral Fellow
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Idan Pinto

Starr Postdoctoral Fellow
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Alexandra Mandelbaum Kupeev

Stroock Postdoctoral Fellow
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Avinoam Stillman

Starr Postdoctoral Fellow

Silver Fellow (Spring 2026)

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Rabbi Jonathan Zolty

Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow

Current Visiting Research Scholars

Ido Ben Harush

Yale University

Associate, Center for the Study of Religions
Academic Year 2025-2026

Dotan Greenvald

Boston University

Associate,
Academic Year 2025-2026

Suzanne Klingenstein

Associate
Academic Year 2025-2026

Romy Neumark

Teaching Assistant, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,
Fellow,
Academic Year 2025-2026

Oz Tamir

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fellow, Harvard – Hebrew U Exchange Program,
Academic Year 2025-2026

Saul Zaritt

University of Ohio

Associate,
Academic Year 2025-2026