Core Faculty
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Andrew Berns
Professor of History
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F.K. Clementi Schoeman
Professor of English and Jewish Studies
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Saskia Coenen Snyder
Professor of History, Edward B. Cantey Chair in Liberal Arts, Director of Jewish Studies
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Stanley Dubinsky
Professor of Linguistics
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John Mandsager
Assistant Professor of Religion
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Agnes Mueller
Professor of German Comparative Literature
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Risa Strauss
Hebrew Language Instructor
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Meir Muller, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Community EmpowermentAssociate Professor, Early Childhood Education
Affiliate Faculty
Adam Schor
Associate Professor (History)
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004
Specialty: Ancient Mediterranean History
Contact: schor@mailbox.sc.edu
Consulting Faculty
Associate Professor (Political Science)
Ph.D., Binghamton University, 1996
Specialty: Israel’s security and economic policies; Israeli-Palestinian economic relations; International Relations and International Political Economy, with main focus on international trade, war, globalization, counter-insurgency, terrorism and counter-terrorism.
Contact: katherine.barbieri@sc.edu
Associate Dean (Continuous Professional Development & Strategic AffairsUSC School of Medicine-Palmetto Health CME Organization)
Ph.D., New York University, 1976
Specialty: Inter-generational transfer of Jewish values, especially in relation to secular behavior and Tikun Olam.
Contact: morris.blachman@uscmed.sc.edu
Professor (Languages, Literatures, & Cultures)
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1997
Specialty: Research interests in the link between antisemitism and gender, and between antisemitism and anti-Americanism; Antisemitism in contemporary German literature.
Contact: agnes.mueller@sc.edu
Emeritus
Professor Emeritus-Religious Studies; Vice Chair of the South Carolina Council on
the Holocaust
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975
Specialty: Hebrew Bible; Ancient Israelite History and Religion.
Contact: evansc@mailbox.sc.edu
Professor Emeritus (Religious Studies)
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980-Religion and Culture
Specialty: Holocaust in Literature and Film, SC Commission on the Holocaust, Religion and Existentialism, Visions of Apocalypse, Religion in the South, Hermeneutics
Contact: lewiske@mailbox.sc.edu
Dag Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs Emeritus (Political Science) and
Jewish Studies Program Emeritus Scholar
Ph.D., Yale University, 1971
Specialty: International relations; international conflict; Israeli foreign/national security
policy; the Arab-Israeli conflict system, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Contact: starr@mailbox.sc.edu