Recent Dissertations

ADLER, YONATAN (Ph.D. 2011, Bar-Ilan University) The Archaeology of Purity: Archaeological Evidence for the Observance of Ritual Purity in Ereẓ-Israel from the Hasmonean Period until the End of the Talmudic Era (164 BCE-400 CE)

Adviser: Prof. Ze'ev Safrai

ALEMAN, NICHOLAS ROBERT (Ph.D. 2011, University of California, Riverside) The Judeo-Christian Bible, the Tanakh, and the Quran in "Don Quixote"

Adviser: James A. Parr

BAILEY, ARTHUR A. (Ph.D. 2011, Brigham Young University) Josephus' Use of Heimarmene: An Interpretation of His Philosophy of Jewish History Related to the Destruction of Jerusalem

Advisers: Thomas W. Mackay; Paul B. Pixton

BERNS, ANDREW (Ph.D. 2011, University of Pennsylvania) The Natural Philosophy of the Biblical World: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Late Renaissance Italy

Advisers: David B. Ruderman; Ann E. Moyer

CHUNG, YONGHAN (Ph.D. 2011, Graduate Theological Union) The Temple in Matthew's Eschatology: Matthew's Interpretation of the Temple in the Context of First Century Judaism

Adviser: Eugene E. Park

CRAWFORD, ROMI (Ph.D. 2011, University of Chicago) Ghetto: An Historical, Aesthetic, and Theoretical Modality

Advisers: Lauren Berlant; Jacqueline Stewart

FINKELSTEIN, ARYAY BENNETT (Ph.D. 2011, Harvard University) Julian among Jews, Christians and "Hellenes" in Antioch: Jewish Practice as a Guide to "Hellenes" and a Goad to Christians

Adviser: Shaye J. D. Cohen

GELLER, RANDALL S. (Ph.D. 2011, Brandeis University) Non-Jewish Minorities and the Question of Military Service in the Israel Defense Forces, 1948-1958

Advisers: Ilan Troen; Avigdor Levy

HODES, JOSEPH (Ph.D. 2011, York University) From India to Israel: The Journey of a Jewish Community

Advisers: Michael Brown; Sara Horowitz; Barbara Johnson

KIMONDO, STEPHEN S. (Ph.D. 2011, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago) Reading Mark's Gospel in Light of the Roman-Jewish War of 66-70 C.E.: Jesus's Story as a Contrast to the Events Related to the War

Adviser: David Rhoads

KINSEY, DANIELLE C. (Ph.D. 2011, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Adviser: Antoinette M. Burton

KOSSTRIN, HANNAH JOY (Ph.D. 2011, Ohio State University) Honest Bodies: Jewishness, Radicalism, and Modernism in Anna Sokolow's Choreography from 1927-1961

Adviser: Karen Eliot

LEBER, BARBARA (Ph.D. 2011, University of Maryland) Jewish Convert in Counter-Reformation Rome: Giovanni Paolo Eustachio

Adviser: Bernard D. Cooperman

LYNCH, JAMES A. (Ph.D. 2011, Indiana University) The Uses of Saladin in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Advisers: Juan Carlos Conde; Rosemarie McGerr

MCCLENAHAN, ANN BAIRD (Th.D. 2010, Harvard Divinity School) "Big Boston": The Impact of Community Organizing on Christian and Jewish Congregations in Boston

Adviser: Ronald F. Thiemann

MORRIS, JOEL HOLLOWAY (Ph.D. 2011, Northwestern University) Waiting in German-Jewish Literature and Thought, 1914-1924

Adviser: Peter Fenves

MOSHIN, JAMIE (Ph.D. 2010, University of Washington) Old Jew, New Jew: Discourse, Appropriation and Jewishness in a "Post-Identity" Era

Adviser: Crispin Thurlow

OESTREICHER, CHERYL C. (Ph.D. 2011, Drew University) The Quest for Happiness: An Analysis of Joshua Loth Liebman's "Peace of Mind"

Adviser: Richard Greenwald

PENNER, JEREMY (Ph.D. 2010, McMaster University) Patterns of Daily Prayer in Second Temple Period Judaism

Adviser: Eileen Schuller

POWERS, JILLIAN L. (Ph.D. 2011, Duke University) Going Away to Find Home: A Comparative Study of Heritage/Homeland Tourism

Adviser: Suzanne Shanahan

PRITCHETT, PATRICK JOHN (Ph.D. 2011, University of Colorado at Boulder) Writing the Disasters: The Messianic Turn in Postwar American Poetry

Advisers: Jeremy Green; Karen Jacobs

RICE, ALON (Ph.D. 2011, University of Southern Mississippi) Intergroup Forgiveness in the Middle East: Cognitive and Affective Antecedents to Intergroup Forgiveness and the Relationship between Intergroup Forgiveness and Psychological Well-Being among Israeli Jews

Adviser: Mark M. Leach

ROVNER, ELLEN B. (Ph.D. 2011, Brandeis University) "It's Just Like Coming Home!" Food, Gender, and Memory in a Jewish Community

Adviser: Sarah Lamb

SALOMON, LAYA (Ed.D...