Faculty Achievements

Faculty Awards:


Jonathan Karp, Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Faculty Service for AY 2019/2020

Orly Shoer, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching AY 2016-2017

Gina Glasman, Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching AY 2015-2016

Randy Friedman, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching AY 2011-2012

Paul-William Burch, Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching AY 2007-2008 

C. Beth Burch, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching AY 2006-2007 

Faculty Fellowships and Grants:


Beth C. Burch
NEH Writing Circle

Dina Danon
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2022
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies University of Pennsylvania, AY 18/19
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Faculty Fellowship, Fall 2016

Randy Friedman
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2014
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Faculty Fellowship, Fall 2010

Jonathan Karp
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2016

Michael Kelly
Department of Classics, University College Cork, Fulbright Scholar, 2021-2022
RomanIslam Center, University of Hamburg, Senior Research Fellow, 2021 

Lior Libman
Harpur College Faculty Research Grant/Subvention Award, Fall 2021
Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Research Fellowship, Fall 2020
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2020
The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Research Fellowship, Spring 2017

Shay Rabineau
Harpur College Faculty Research Grant/Subvention Award, Spring 2022
Abraham Path Fellow, Abraham Path Initiative, 2021

Faculty Books:


Arkush, Allan (Contributor). Enlightenment and Secularism: Essays on the Mobilization of Reason, edited by by Christopher Nadon, Lexington Books, 2015.
Arkush, Allan (Contributor). Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square, edited by Alan Mittleman, Jonathan Sarna, and Robert Licht. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
Arkush, Allan. Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment. SUNY Press, 1994.
Arkush, Allan (Translator). Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism by Moses Mendelssohn, Brandeis University Press, 1983.

Burch, C. Beth. Grammar for Writers. Bloomington, IN: Archway, a division of Simon and Schuster, 2017.
Burch, C. Beth. A Writer’s Grammar. New York: Longman, 2003. Accompanying instructor’s manual.
Burch, C. Beth. Writing for Your Portfolio: A Composition Rhetoric. New York: Allyn & Bacon/Simon & Schuster. 1999. 
Burch, C. Beth with Dona Kagan, James R. Chesnut, Laura B. Hunter, and Elizabeth K. Wilson. Laura and Jim and What They Taught Me the Gap Between Educational Theory and Practice. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
Burch, C. Beth and Leonora Woodman. Students Write: A Collection of Essays. Glenview IL: Scott Foresman, 1987.

Danon, Dina. The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History. Stanford University Press, 2020.

Karp, Jonathan, and Adam Sutcliffe, eds. The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 7, The Early Modern World, 1500–1815. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Karp, Jonathan, and Marsha L. Rozenblit, eds. World War I and the Jews: Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America. Berghahn Books, 2018.
Karp, Jonathan, and Adam Sutcliffe, eds. Philosemitism in History. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Karp, Jonathan, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, eds. The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Karp, Jonathan. The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638–1848. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Kelly, Michael. Isidore of Seville and the “Liber Iudiciorum”: The Struggle for the Past in the Visigothic Kingdom. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 80. Brill, 2021.
Kelly, Michael, and Michael Burrows, eds. Urban Interactions: Communication and Competition in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Gracchi Books, 2020.
Kelly, Michael, and Dominique Bauer, eds. The Imagery of Interior Spaces. Punctum Books, 2019.
Kelly, Michael, and Arthur Rose, eds. Theories of History: History Read Across the Humanities. Bloomsbury, 2018.

Rabineau, Shay. Walking the Land: A History of Israeli Hiking Trails. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022