Faculty
Deborah A. Green - Hebrew Language & Literature
Program Director, Greenberg Associate Professor
Biographical Information
Ph.D., 2003, University of Chicago; M.A., 1997, University of Chicago; B.A., 1984, Brandeis University.
Professor Green's interests lie in the history, literature, and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, particularly as it was adopted and interpreted by Jews from the Second Temple through Byzantine periods.
Her book, The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature (Penn State University Press, forthcoming) investigates rabbinic interpretation (midrash) of perfume and incense. She is particularly interested in the images of aromatics in the Hebrew Bible and how, in the course of interpretation, the early rabbis inscribe their own daily experience with aromatics upon the interpretations. In her latest project, Professor Green focuses on dangerous and liminal spaces in the Bible and ancient Jewish literature. She is principally interested in the intersection of women and such environments as the garden, the courtyard, and the rooftop - and how the valences of these narratives from biblical literature as well as everyday experience of these spaces are echoed and change in Hellenistic and early rabbinic literature.
Professor Green is also the co-editor of two books, Commemorating the Dead: Texts and Artifacts in Context: Studies of Roman, Jewish, and Christian Burials (Walter de Gruyter, 2008) and Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Email: dagreen@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541)346-5974
Office Address: 834 PLC
Office hours: Mondays 2:15pm-4:00pm and Wednesdays 11:30am-12:30pm
Judith R. Baskin - Judaic Studies
Knight Professor of Humanities
Associate Dean, Humanities
College of Arts and Sciences
Judith R. Baskin, Knight Professor of Humanities, currently serves in the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office as the Associate Dean of Humanities.
Professor Baskin was President of the Association for Jewish Studies from 2004 to the end of 2006. A recipient of the Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 1976, she taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1976-88, and at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she was Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies from 1988-2000.
Dr. Baskin is the author of Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002) and Pharaoh's Counsellors: Job, Jethro and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1983). Her edited volumes include Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, now in its second edition (1998), and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994). She is currently editing two volumes for Cambridge University Press and is also writing a feminist commentary on Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud. Dr. Baskin has been at the University of Oregon since 2000.
Email: jbaskin@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541)346-3902
Office Address: 114 Friendly Hall
Daniel K. Falk - Ancient Judaism and Biblical Studies
Professor
Biographical Information
Ph.D., 1996, Cambridge; M.A., 1992, Regent; B.A., 1987, Providence. (1998)
Professor Falk's interests lie in the history and literature of ancient Judaism and the beginnings of Christianity, especially the development of prayer and liturgy, interpretation of scripture, and the formation of religious communities. His research focuses particularly on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which he is involved in translating and reconstructing. He is the author of Daily, Sabbath, and Festival Prayers in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill, 1998) and Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2007). He is co-editor of several other books: Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran (Brill, 2000) and a 3-volume series on the history of penitential prayer entitled Seeking the Favor of God (SBL/Brill, 2006, 2007, 2008). Among numerous articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls, he published the official editions of two manuscripts from Qumran, "4QWorks of God" and "4QCommunal Confession," (in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 29; Oxford University Press, 1999).
Member, The International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Editorial Board of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Editorial Board of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament; the Society of Biblical Literature; Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.
Email: dfalk@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541)346-4980
Office Address: 814 PLC
Office hours: On sabbatical 2011-2012
Federica Francesconi
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biographical Information
Ph.D., 2007, University of Haifa; M.A., 1998, University of Bologna; B.A., 1998, University of Bologna.
Federica Francesconi specializes in the cultural and social history of Jews in early modern Europe, paying special attention to Italian Jewish culture. She is currently developing her dissertation into a book, The Wealth of Silver: The Journey of the Modenese Jews from the Renaissance to Emancipation (1598-1814). Francesconi has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Oxford. She has just co-edited a special issue of the Journal Jewish History, entitled Tradition and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Jewish Integration in Comparative Perspective.
Email: ffrances@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541)346-5984
Office Address: 832 PLC
Office hours: Tuesdays 2:00pm-3:30pm and Wednesdays 4:00pm-5:30pm
Executive Committee
Deborah A. Green, (Chair), Religious Studies, dagreen@uoregon.edu
Mathew Dennis, History, mjdennis@uoregon.edu
Maram Epstein, East Asian Languages, maram@uoregon.edu
Jeffrey Librett, German & Scandinavian, jlibrett@uoregon.edu
David M. Luebke, History, dluebke@uoregon.edu
David Wacks, Romance Languages, wacks@uoregon.edu
Judith R. Baskin, (Ex-Officio), College of Arts and Sciences, jbaskin@uoregon.edu
Participating Faculty
Michael Aronson, English, aronson@uoregon.edu
Diane B. Baxter, Anthropology, dbaxter@uoregon.edu
Monique Balbuena, Clark Honors College, balbuena@uoregon.edu
Shaul E. Cohen, Geography, scohen@uoregon.edu
Mary-Lyon Dolezal, Art History, mdolezal@uoregon.edu
David Frank, Clark Honors College, dfrank@uoregon.edu
Lisa Freinkel, English, freinkel@uoregon.edu
Miriam Gershow, English, mgershow@uoregon.edu
Marion Sherman Goldman, Sociology, mgoldman@uoregon.edu
Evlyn Gould, Romance Languages, evgould@uoregon.edu
Gantt Gurley, German and Scandinavian, gantt@uoregon.edu
Kenneth I. Helphand, Landscape Architecture, helphand@uoregon.edu
Mark Levy, Music, levy@uoregon.edu
Gina Herrmann, Romance Languages, gah@uoregon.edu
Jeffrey Librett, German & Scandinavian, jlibret@uoregon.edu
Jack P. Maddex, History, jmaddex@uoregon.edu
Moshe Rachmuth, Comparative Literature, mrachmut@uoregon.edu
Judith Raiskin, Women's and Gender Studies, raiskin@uoregon.edu
Martha Ravits, Youth Enrichment/TAG Programs, ravits@uoregon.edu
Cheyney C. Ryan, Philosophy, cryan@uoregon.edu
Steven Shankman, English, shankman@uoregon.edu
Carol T. Silverman, Anthropology, csilverm@uoregon.edu
William Toll, History, btoll@uoregon.edu
David Wacks, Romance Languages, wacks@uoregon.edu
Naomi Zack, Philosophy, nzack@uoregon.edu