Faculty
- On Wednesday, October 17, Samuel Boyd, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, presented his research in a "TED-style" talk at the Dairy Art Center as part of the University of Colorado's first
- Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Director of the CU Mediterranean Studies Group, recently published an article titled "鈥榃estern Culture鈥 and Where it Really Came From" on Hurst
- As we enter the 2018-2019 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder.We welcome two new faculty members to Jewish Studies, Rebecca Wartell, Instructor in Jewish
- In Professor David Shneer's latest article, "How Jewish Can One Fiddler Be?: Reflections on the Folksbiene鈥檚 Fidler afn dakh," he and colleague Professor Rebecca Kobrin of Columbia University consider why this Yiddish
- Professor Brian Catlos鈥檚 latest book, Kingdoms of Faith. A New History of Islamic Spain was featured in The New Yorker鈥檚 鈥淏rief Notices鈥 (23 May issue). From The New Yorker Kingdoms of
- Islamic Spain: was it a paradise of tolerance and religious harmony, or an oppressive and violent authoritarian regime? Was it a beacon of enlightened sophistication snuffed out by barbaric Dark Age Europeans, or the arena of a
- We are pleased to announce Professor Nan Goodman, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies, recently published her newest book, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early
- The 2018 Haskins Medal is awarded to Professor Brian Catlos for his monograph, Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Below is the full
- Beverly Weber's most recent article on contemporary refugee migration in Germany, "The German Refugee 鈥淐risis鈥 after Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights" has appeared in English Language Notes over the summer. She also conducted
- Nan Goodman, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather鈥檚 The Mystery of Israel鈥檚 Salvation,鈥 in New Approaches to Puritan