Explore archaeological methods in examining texts and artifacts from first century CE.

Analysis of Israeli politics and society in a comparative perspective with a major focus on the social and political cleavages in Israel.

Examines how Jews have been represented and constituted in American public culture as a race, religion, and/or nation through distinct institutions and display practices.

Examines the interplay between material culture and Jewish identity and thought in contemporary America.

Surveys trends in Judeophobia/anti-Semitism over 2,500 years in both Christian and non-Christian societies. Designed to use anti-Semitism as way to explore more general ideas in social theory such as boundary making; models of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict; and the role of intellectual and scientific elites.

Explores the historical, political, psychological, theological, and cultural fallout of the Holocaust, as well as literary and cinematic responses in Europe and the United States.

Explore what life is like in today's contested, rapidly growing, and increasingly diverse Jerusalem.