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Our faculty members are extremely active both inside and outside the classroom. They have authored a number of books — valuable both in themselves and for what they bring to their teaching.
Daniella Doron, Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, received her PhD from the departments of History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University in 2009. Before arriving at Colgate she was the Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently working on revising her dissertation, "In the Best Interest of the Child: Family, Youth and Identity Among Postwar French Jews 1944-1954," into a book manuscript. Research from this work has been published in the Journal of Jewish Identities (August 2011). In her teaching and research, she focuses on modern Jewish history and the history of childhood, gender, and the family.
Steven Kepnes, the Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor of Jewish Studies, writes on Jewish ethics and the relationship between Judiasm and ethical theory. His most recent books are Jewish Liturgical Reasoning (Oxford University Press, 2007), Scripture, Reason, and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter, with Basit Bilal Koshul (Macmillan, 2007), Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, with Peter Ochs and Robert Gibbs (Westview Press, 1997), and The Text as Thou (Indiana University Press, 1992).He was editor of Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age (New York University Press, 1996) and The Challenge of Psychology to Faith, co-editor (Seabury, 1982).
Alice Nakhimovsky, Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies, has recently written the article on “Russian Literature” for the Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and “Sole Searcher” [Review essay on Gabriella Safran’s Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-sky (Harvard University Press, 2010)], Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2011. She served as the Russian Literature editor of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (Yale University Press, 2008). She wrote the introduction and did the translation of Grisha Bruskin’s Past Imperfect: 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russian Artist (Syracuse University Press, 2008). Also about a Russian-Jewish artist is Witness to History: The Photographs of Yergeny Khaldei (with A.D. Nakhimovsky; Aperture, 1997). Other books are Russian-Jewish Literature and Identity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), Laughter in the Void: An Introduction to the Writing of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedenskii (Wiener Slawistischer Alamanach, 1982), Beginning Russian (with A.D. Nakhimovsky and Richard Leed; 1981, 1982, 1991), Intermediate Russian (with A.D. Nakhimovsky, Richard Leed, and Slava Paperno (1985), and co-editor of The Semiotics of Russian Culture (1985). She has written many essays on Russian-Jewish food and everyday life, and is a consultant to the new Jewish Museum opening in Moscow in 2012
Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion, has written Sustaining Fictions: Thinking about the Literary Afterlife of the Bible (Continuum/T&T Clark, Fall 2008). She is co-editor, with Peter S. Hawkins, of From the Margins: Women of the Hebrew Bible and their Afterlives (Sheffield-Phoenix, 2008, forthcoming) and Scrolls of Love: Reading Ruth and the Song of Songs (Fordham, 2006). She applies her training in religion and literature to the Hebrew Bible and its interpretive afterlife.