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Deborah Dash Moore
Distinguished University Professor

ddmoore@umich.edu 2027 Thayer, Judaic Studies
2016 Thayer, 1608 734.615.8501

Judaic Studies; Faculty; American Jewish Studies; History; Visual Culture

Deborah Forger
Research Fellow and Incoming Assistant Professor

dkforger@umich.edu 3167 Thayer Academic Building

Judaic Studies; Faculty; Antiquity; Gender and Sexuality Studies; History; Holocaust and Antisemitism; Religion; Jewish-Christian Studies

Karla Goldman
Director, Jewish Communal Leadership Program, 2026-27 Co-Head Fellow

kargold@umich.edu 3810 SSWB, 1106 734.763.6583

Judaic Studies; American Jewish Studies; Race and Racism; Faculty; Religion; History; Modern and Contemporary; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Fellows

Mostafa Hussein
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Associate Director, Assistant Professor

mostafah@umich.edu 2159 Thayer 734-647-3111

Judaic Studies; Faculty; Cultural Studies; History; Israel and Palestine; Jewish-Muslim Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Middle East and North Africa Studies; Modern and Contemporary; Religion; Sephardic Studies; Mizrahi Studies; Staff

Gabriel Mordoch
Irving M. Hermelin Curator of Judaica, Ladino Lecturer

mordoch@umich.edu 111-D Hatcher Graduate Library 734-936-2367

Librarian; Judaic Studies; Jewish Languages; History; Literary Studies; Medieval and Early Modern; Modern and Contemporary; Sephardic Studies

Bryan Roby
Associate Professor

robyb@umich.edu 2111 Thayer, 1608 734.615.8563

Judaic Studies; Jewish Languages; Israel and Palestine; Mizrahi Studies; Middle East and North Africa Studies; Race and Racism; Cultural Studies; Faculty; Sephardic Studies; History; Modern and Contemporary; Gender and Sexuality Studies

Aaron Rock-Singer
Research Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Institute; lecturer, Judaic and Middle East Studies

awrs@umich.edu

Faculty; Lecturer; Judaic Studies; History; Israel and Palestine; Jewish-Muslim Studies; Middle East and North Africa Studies; Religion

Cara Rock-Singer
Assistant Professor

rocksing@umich.edu 2151 Thayer 734 763 9678

Judaic Studies; Faculty; American Jewish Studies; Anthropology; Gender and Sexuality Studies; History; Jews of the Americas; Modern and Contemporary; Race and Racism

Jeffrey Veidlinger
Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, 2026-27 Co-Head Fellow

jveidlin@umich.edu

Judaic Studies; American Jewish Studies; European Jewry; Race and Racism; Faculty; Holocaust and Antisemitism; History; Modern and Contemporary; Fellows

Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg
Associate Professor of Judaic Studies

rwollenb@umich.edu 2167 South Thayer 734.615.8541

Judaic Studies; Antiquity; Jewish-Muslim Studies; Medieval and Early Modern; Faculty; Religion; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Jewish-Christian Studies; Cultural Studies; History