The leadership of the Center for Jewish Studies includes faculty from three schools at Harvard–Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Law School–as well as thirteen different academic departments within the FAS.
Derek J. Penslar
Director
William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History
Department of History
Derek Penslar joined the faculty of the Department of History at Harvard in 2016, and in 2018 he became the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History. He is a resident faculty member at Harvard’s Center for European Studies and is affiliated with Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Penslar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy for Jewish Research and is an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
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Executive Committee
Benjamin Dunning
Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
(on leave)
Noah Feldman
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
Director, Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law
Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures
Peter E. Gordon
Amabel B. James Professor of History
Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, & Department of Philosophy
Joseph Koerner
Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows
Hannah Marcus
John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Interim Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Annette Yoshiko Reed
Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies
David Stern
Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and
Professor of Comparative Literature
Executive Committee Emeriti
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies
Mather House SCR Associate Member, Emerita
James Kugel
former Harry M. Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Hebrew Literature; Associate of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
