Center for Jewish Studies Affiliated Faculty
Ellen Amster, Assistant Professor
Department of History
Teaching and Research Interests:
Islam, medieval Islamic history, intellectual history of the Middle East, women's history, Morocco/North Africa, history of Islamic and French medicine, traditional midwifery, modernity and Islamic intellectual movements.
eamster@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/History/faculty/amster.html
Rachel Baum, Senior Lecturer
Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics (FLL)
Teaching and Research Interests:
Holocaust literature & film, Holocaust memory and memorials, Post-Holocaust
Theology, Post-Holocaust Philosophy, Contemporary Jewish American identity, Modern Jewish thought, Jewish feminism, Jews in popular culture.
rbaum@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/faculty.html
Rachel Buff, Associate Professor
Department of History
Teaching and Research Interests:
Ethnic and im/migration studies, Cultural history, Critical race theory, Cultures of U.S. imperialism, Cultural studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Mapping the global Cold War
rbuff@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/History/faculty/buff.html
Timothy Crain, Senior Lecturer
Departments of Foreign Languages and Linguistics (FLL)
Research and Teaching Interests:
Modern Jewish history, Modern anti-Semitism, British and Irish History, Conflict Studies (Arab-Israeli Conflict and Northern Ireland) Modern Jewish history, the Holocaust, Comparative Religious history (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Modern Middle East, Modern British history, Modern Irish history.
tcrain@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/faculty.html
Michael Fountain, Senior Lecturer
Department of French Italian and Comparative Literature
Research and Teaching Interests:
fountain@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL
Shale A. Horowitz, Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Teaching and Research Interests:
International and ethnic conflict, the politics of international trade and finance, the politics of market transition and institutional change in the post-communist countries and East Asia, and the politics of agricultural policy. He has taught for a year at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and has done research in many countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and in China and Taiwan.
shale@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/Polsci/faculty/horowitz.html
Thomas Hubka, Professor
Department of Architecture
Research and Teaching interests:
History/Theory, Design Studio, Vernacular Architecture, Synagogues, American Housing.
thubka@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/SARUP/
Jennifer Jordan
Department of Sociology
Teaching and Research Interests:
Theory, Urban sociology, Sociology of culture, Collective memory, Europe, Germany
jajordan@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/Sociology/faculty/jordan.html
Yair Mazor, Professor,
Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
Research and Teaching Interests:
Modern Hebrew literature; Contemporary Israeli poetry; Biblical literature; Israeli Film.
ymazor@uwm.edu
http://uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/faculty/mazor.html
Chava Frankfort Nachmias, Associate Professor, Director
Department of Sociology, Center for Jewish Studies
Research and Teaching Interests:
Research Methodology; Social Stratification; Social Statistics; Sex and Gender; Women in the Middle East; Women in Israel
chava@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/CJS
Tasha G. Oren, Assistant Professor
Department of English/Film Studies
Research and Teaching Interests:
Film and Media studies, media history, popular culture, globalization and media, Middle Eastern media history and film, Asian American studies.
tgoren@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/faculty/facultynr.html
Lisa Silverman, Assistant Professor
Department of History
Teaching and Research Interests:
Modern Jewish history, German and Austrian Jewish history, literature,
and culture, Holocaust history and representation, Jewish cultural
studies, gender studies, antisemitism.
silverld@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/History/faculty/silverman.html
Marc Tasman, Lecturer
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
Digital Arts and Culture Certificate Program Coordinator
Teaching and Research Interests:
Art and technology practices; history of photography; performance and identity; technological, interactive, end-user, autonomous, tactical, subversive, transgressive, parodies of, and emancipatory uses of media.
mtasman@uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/dac/
http://uwm.edu/~mtasman
