Faculty
The following faculty serve as the backbone of the Israel studies curriculum on campus, bolstered by the Hebrew language faculty, visiting professors, and post-doctoral fellows in the Schusterman Center.
![Alexander Kaye](images/faculty-headshots/kaye-alex-december-2018_opt.jpg)
Expertise: Jewish thought, intellectual history, political thought, legal history
![Man in blue shirt smiling](images/faculty-headshots/evri-yuval-11-20-21.jpg)
Expertise: Cultural and Intellectual history of Palestine/Israel; Mizrahi/Sephardi modern history; Israeli society and culture; Hebrew-Arabic literary history
![Yehudah Mirsky](images/faculty-headshots/mirsky-yehudah.jpg)
Expertise: Jewish thought, Israel and Zionism, study of religion, political thought
![Jonathan D. Sarna](images/faculty-headshots/sarna-jonathan.jpg)
Expertise: American Jewish history and life, Jews in the Americas, American religion
![Ilana Szobel](images/faculty-headshots/szobel-ilana.jpg)
Expertise: Modern Hebrew literature, Israel studies, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, disability studies, film studies
![Shayna Weiss](../images/Staff/shayna-weiss-12-6-21.jpg)
Expertise: Israeli history, gender, Orthodox Jews, politics of popular culture, television and film, nationalism, politics
![Ilan Troen '63](images/faculty-headshots/troen-ilan.jpg)
Expertise: Israeli social and political history, modern social history, transnational history, comparative history
![David Ellenson](images/faculty-headshots/ellenson-david.jpg)
Expertise: Development of Orthodox Judaism in Germany during the 19th century, Orthodox legal writings on conversion in Israel, North America and Europe; history of modern Jewish religious movements, relationship between religion and state in Israel, American Jewish life
Hebrew Language Faculty
![Guy Antebi](images/faculty-headshots/antebi-guy.jpg)
Expertise: Hebrew language, educational technology
![Sara Hascal](images/faculty-headshots/hascal-sara.jpg)
Expertise: Hebrew language, Israeli culture