Faculty of Resident Instruction

Aviva Ben-Ur, Professor, B.A., Wellesley, 1990; M.A., Columbia, 1992; M.Phil., 1994; Ph.D., Brandeis, 1998.

Alon Confino, Professor, B.A., Tel Aviv University, 1985; M.A., California at Berkeley, 1986; Ph.D., 1992.

Tayeb El-Hibri, Professor, B.A., Stanford, 1986; M.A., Columbia, 1988; M.Phil., 1989; Ph.D., 1993.

Olga Gershenson, Professor, B.A., Ural State University, 1990; M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2003.

Hadi Jorati, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2006; MPhil., Yale, 2011; MPhil., 2012; Ph.D. NELC, 2014

David Mednicoff, Associate Professor and Chair of Department, A.B., Princeton, 1982; A.M., Harvard, 1988; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1989; Ph.D., Harvard, 2007.

Ralph Melnick, Senior Lecturer, B.A., New York, 1968; M.S.L.S., Columbia, 1970; M.A., M.Phil., Columbia/Union Theological Seminary, 1974, 1975; Ph.D., Reconstructionist Rabbinical College/Temple University, 1968-1969; Ph.D., Columbia/Union Theological Seminary, 1977.

Susan Shapiro, Associate Professor, B.A., Washington, 1973; Ph.D., Chicago, 1983.

Malissa Taylor, Assistant Professor, A.B., Princeton, 1997; M.A., New York University, 2003; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2011.

Ofir Zussman, Lecturer, B.A., Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, 1998; M.A., Cambridge, 2000; Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2014.