Doctoral students in Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago earn their degrees in a department, school, or committee, while supplementing their disciplinary training through participation in the inter-disciplinary activities and scholarship opportunities offered by the Center. Students who wish to pursue graduate work in an area of Jewish Studies should apply to the appropriate department, school, or committee, and not to the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. The following departments and schools offer specialized graduate study in the following tracks or programs of Jewish Studies:
Divinity School
- Biblical Studies
- Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
- Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature
- Jewish and Christian Bible
- History of Judaism
- Rabbinic literature, Midrash, and mysticism
- Medieval Jewish philosophy, thought, and literature (including Islamic philosophy)
- Modern Jewish thought and intellectual history
For information about the Divinity School please visit divinity.uchicago.edu/.
Department of Germanic Studies
- German-Jewish Intellectual History
- Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture
For information on the Department of Germanic Studies please visit german.uchicago.edu.
Department of History
- Modern Jewish History
For information on the Department of History Please visit history.uchicago.edu/.
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
- Near Eastern Judaica (including Modern Hebrew Studies, and Hebrew Studies)
- Northwest Semitic Philology (including Hebrew, Phoenician-Punic, Ugaritic, Aramaic, and Syriac)
- Ancient Near Eastern History (including the ancient history of Syria-Palestine)
- Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
- Modern Hebrew Language and Literature
- Islamic History and Civilization (including the study of Jews in the Islamic world)
- Islamic Thought (including the interaction between Jewish and Islamic thought)
For more information on MES please visit nelc.uchicago.edu/.
In addition, students and faculty work in specific areas of Jewish Studies in the Departments of Music, Philosophy, Political Science, and Slavic Languages and Literatures.