Recent Dissertations

Aiken-Klar, Emma Jo (Ph.D. 2008, University of Toronto) Remembering Zion: Jewish Diasporic Identity on a Canadian University Campus

Aldouby-Schuck, Tali (Ph.D. 2008, New York University) Roman Catholic and Conservative Jewish Bible Teachers: Perspectives on the Nexus of Personal Background and Professional Practice Adviser: Gordon Pradl

Archer-Capuzzo, Sonia (D.M.A. 2008, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Common Ground: Promoting Communication and Fostering Trust among Israeli Arabs and Jews through Music Advisers: Kelly J. Burke; Gavin Douglas

Attia, Patricia R. (Ph.D. 2008, New York University) Runaway Youth from Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Homes: A Qualitative Study Adviser: Deborah Padgett

Bradbury, Carlee A. (Ph.D. 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Imaging and Imagining the Jew in Medieval England Adviser: Anne D. Hedeman

Cassen, Flora (Ph.D. 2007, New York University) The Jewish Badge in Early Modern Italy: A Social and Political Study of Anti-Jewish Discrimination Adviser: Robert Chazan

Cohen , Michael R. (Ph.D. 2008, Brandeis University) Schechter's Disciples: How Solomon Schechter's Students Created Conservative Judaism, 1902–1946 Adviser: Jonathan D. Sarna

Dubin , Andrew Ross (D.H.L. 2008, Jewish Theological Seminary of America) Ehud and Eglon in Moab: Judges 3:12–30 in the Bible, the Old Versions, and Ancient Jewish Literature

Garcia, Desiree J. (Ph.D. 2008, Boston University) There's No Place Like Home: Race, Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood Musical, 1900–1950 Adviser: Marilyn Halter

Garroway, Joshua David (Ph.D. 2008, Yale University) Neither Jew nor Gentile, but Both: Paul's "Christians" as "Gentile-Jews" Adviser: Dale B. Martin

Goldberg, Dana K. (Ph.D. 2008, New York University) An Intergenerational Exploration of Anger in Jewish Women's Lives Adviser: Mary B. McRae

Golden, Jonathan J. (Ph.D. 2008, Brandeis University) From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Rise and Fall of the Synagogue Council of America Adviser: Jonathan D. Sarna

Haji, Reeshma (Ph.D. 2008, York University) Interreligious Similarities: Predicting Differences in Religious Outgroup Bias That Deals with the Intergroup Attitudes of Christians, Muslims, and Jews Adviser: Richard N. Lalonde

Hussar, James A. (Ph.D. 2008, University of Notre Dame) Cycling through the Pampas: Fictionalized Accounts of Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Argentina and Brazil Adviser: Maria Rosa Olivera-Williams

Jockusch, Laura (Ph.D. 2007, New York University) "Collect and Record. Help to Write the History of the Latest Destruction." Jewish Historical Commissions in Europe, 1943–1953

Kogon, Susan J. COONIN (Ph.D. 2007, University of Delaware) Seeds of Change: The Roots of Jewish Environmental Ethics as a Challenge to the Technical Paradigm Adviser: John Byrne

Krakowski, Moshe (Ph.D. 2008, Northwestern University) Isolation and Integration: Education and Worldview Formation in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Schools Adviser: Bruce Sherin

Lafferty, Carolyn (D.Litt. 2008, Drew University) Chaim Melcer's "Voice from the Forest: Remembering the Holocaust" Adviser: Laura Winters

Lewis, Mollie (Ph.D. 2008, Emory University) Con Men, Cooks, and Cinema Kings: Popular Culture and Jewish Identities in Buenos Aires, 1905–1930 Adviser: Jeffrey Lesser

Lieber, Julie (Ph.D. 2008, University of Pennsylvania) Imagining and Living Gender: Rabbis and Jewish Women in Fin de Siecle Vienna, 1867–1914 Adviser: Benjamin Nathans

Marmon , Talia S. (Ph.D. 2008, Fordham University) Spirituality, Marital Quality, and Psychological Adjustment in Pregnant Orthodox Jewish Women Adviser: John J. Cecero

Marshak , Adam Kolman (Ph.D. 2008, Yale University) Herod the Great and the Power of Image: Political Self-Presentation in the Hero-dian Dynasty Adviser: John F. Matthews

Mazur, Peter Akawie (Ph.D. 2008, Northwestern University) The Roman Inquisition and the Crypto-Jews of Spanish Naples Adviser: Edward W. Muir

McCallum-Bonar, Colleen (Ph.D. 2008, Ohio State University) Black Ashkenaz and the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance Adviser: David Neal Miller

Mendelsohn , Adam D. (Ph.D. 2008, Brandeis University) Tongue Ties: Religion, Culture and Commerce in the Making of the Anglophone Jewish Diaspora, 1840–1870 Adviser: Jonathan D. Sarna

Miles, Mary C. (Ph.D. 2008, Cornell University) Democracy Within: Religious Outsiders and the Americanization of Psychoanalysis during and after World War II Adviser: R. Laurence Moore

Miller, Marvin E. (Ph.D. 2008, Lynn University) Relationship between Religiosity and Marital Status among Reform Jewish Couples Adviser: Ralph Norcio

Newberg , Eric Nelson (Ph...