Faculty and Staff

Michael Weingrad, Academic Director

Michael Weingrad is Portland State University's first full-time professor of Judaic Studies. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his PhD from the University of Washington, and has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds, and a Harry Starr Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests concern modern Jewish literature and culture. He has published articles in Prooftexts, Jewish Social Studies, AJS Review, Commentary, and other publications, and is completing a book about Hebrew literature written in the United States.

Aaron Pearlman, Director of Community Outreach

Linda Maizels, Community Outreach Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty

Robert Liebman, Founding Academic Director

Ayal Yariv, Instructor in Hebrew

Jeff Brown, Office Administrator

Faculty Committee:
Martha Balshem, Sociology
Nathan Cogan (Emeritus), English
Susan Danielson, English
Cheryl Livneh, Education
Lee Medovoi, English
John Ott, History
Patricia Schechter, History
Leonard Shapiro, Computer Science
Richard Wattenberg, Theater Arts
Martin Zwick, Systems Science

Affiliate and Adjunct Faculty:
Jacqueline Arante
Zvi Raanan
Emanuel Rose
Jonathan Seidel