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Annual Report 2025
Annual Report 2025
In this issue
Dear Friends
This was a productive year at the Melton Center for Jewish Studies as we continued to meet the challenges of our present time. We fostered many opportunities for research and learning engagement on…
Student Awards
The Melton Center for Jewish Studies has been fortunate to have received endowed funds from donors over the years, some of which are earmarked for undergraduate and graduate student scholarships. The…
2024–2025 Events
A Black Jewish Messiah in an Apocalyptic Age — On Sept. 25, the Melton Center partnered with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Department of Classics to present a lecture…
Writer-in-Residence
Writer-in-Residence Lucia MannThis was the second year that the Melton Center hosted Writer-in-Residence Lucia Mann. Mann is a screenwriter, playwright and novelist from Berlin. She has written two…
Co-sponsorships
Co-sponsorshipsTea Arciszewska's Miryeml (1958/59) and Yiddish Plays by Women — On Sept. 24, the Melton Center partnered with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Department…
New Faculty
Laurie Katz is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning. She received her doctoral degree in 1992 at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in early childhood education/early childhood…
Faculty News
Naomi Brenner:Associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, served as acting chair for her department for the academic year. This year, she published…
Faculty Accolades
Isaac Weiner, professor in the Department of Comparative Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion, and Robin Judd, professor in the Department of History, celebrated their…
2024–2025 Faculty Research Grants
2024–2025 Faculty Research GrantsThe Melton Center initiated a Faculty Research Grants program this year to support research in Jewish studies associated with any part of a scholarly or…
Faculty 2024–2025
Naomi BrennerAssociate Professor(PhD, University of California, Berkeley)1Modern Hebrew Literature Lúcia Helena CostiganProfessor(PhD, University of Pittsburgh)Literatures and Cultures of Latin…
Retirements
Lori Botnick FiremanProgram Coordinator/Community Outreach AnalystLori Fireman retired after nearly 20 years of dedicated service with the Melton Center. She worked tirelessly with four directors to…
Alumni News
Student TestimonialEdward Kunz recently graduated with a PhD in history from The Ohio State University’s Department of History. Upon graduation, he reached out to describe how the Melton Center…