Greenberg Center Dissertation Fellows

From 2010 to 2022, the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies funded Dissertation Year Fellowships for advanced PhD candidates in Jewish Studies. Many of these fellowships were supported by the Jacob Greenberg Memorial Jewish Studies Fellowship Fund established in memory of Joyce Greenberg’s late husband Jacob.

“Greenberg Scholar” — Denotes Dissertation Year Fellow supported by the Jacob Greenberg Memorial Jewish Studies Fellowship Fund.

Sam Catlin (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Trinity College, Hartford.

Doren Snoek (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Associate Lecturer in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at the University of St. Andrews, UK.

Anna Band (Greenberg Scholar)

Yiftach Ofek (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Lecturer at Shalem College, Jerusalem, Israel.

Christine Trotter (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor at Georgetown University.

Yonatan Shemesh (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: History Teacher at Horace Mann School, New York.

Ezra Blaustein
Current Position: Senior Consultant at IQVIA.

Cathleen Chopra-McGowan
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University.

Joseph Cross (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Post-doctoral researcher on the European Research Council Advanced Grant project “From Texts to Literature: Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible” at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.

Mili Leitner (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Content and Product Marketing Lead at Gcore.

Madadh Richey (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

Richard Zaleski
Current Position: Technical Writer at McMaster-Carr.

Marshall Cunningham
Current Position: Assistant Instructional Professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Jessie DeGrado (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Ancient Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan.

Annie Greene (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Utah.

Liane Feldman (Marquis)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University.

Sam Shonkoff (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Taube Family Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

Jordan Skornik (Greenberg Scholar)
Current Position: Executive Director at Borland Free Clinic.

Sam Shonkoff

Erik Dreff
Current Position: Lecturer at Rutgers-New Brunswik.

Sarah Yardney
Current Position: Research Specialist for Critical Editions for Digital Analysis and Research (CEDAR), University of Chicago.

Jessica Andruss
Current Position: Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.

Nathan Mastnjak
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Shayna Zamkanei

Alexandra Zirkle
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Buffalo.

Chaim Neria
Current Position: Curator of the Judaica Collection at the National Library of Israel.

Samuel Boyd
Current Position: Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

James Jacobson Maisels
Current Position: Founder and Spiritual Director at Or HaLev.

Samuel Brody (Cohen Family Fellowship)
Current Position: Associate Professor at Kansas University.

Dov Weiss
Current Position: Associate Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Tupac Cruz

Heather Miller Rubens
Current Position: Executive Director and Roman Catholic Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, Maryland.

Rachel Seelig
Current Position: Freelance Writer & Educator in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.