Academic Consortium Steering Committee

The membership of the Academic Consortium has increased from 30 members in 1989 to 285 members today. Members are dedicated to teaching and learning within the field of Jewish Studies. The leadership of the Academic Consortium is instrumental for its success. The current Steering Committee members are:

• Professor Robert B. Alter, UC Berkeley; Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature; Steering Committee Chair
• Professor Fred Astren, San Francisco State University, Medieval History, Religion
• Professor Cynthia Baker, Santa Clara University, Department of Religious Studies
• Professor Murray Baumgarten, UC Santa Cruz, Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies; Editor, JUDAISM: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
• Professor David Biale, UC Davis, Emmanuel Ringelblum Chair in Jewish History; Director of Jewish Studies Program
• Professor William Ze'ev Brinner, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies
• Professor John Efron, UC Berkeley, Koret Professor of History and Jewish Studies
• Professor Arnold Eisen, Stanford University, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and Religion
• Professor Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford, Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies
• Professor Aaron Hahn Tapper, University of San Francisco, Director, Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, Swig Chair in Judaic Studies, Assistant Professor, Theology and Religious Studies
• Professor Chana Kronfeld, UC Berkeley, Comparative Literature Department
• Professor Cynthia Scheinberg, Mills College, English Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Chair
• Professor Naomi Seidman, Graduate Theological Union; Director, Center for Jewish Studies
• Professor Vered Shemtov, Stanford, Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies
• Professor Steven Zipperstein, Stanford University, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish History and Culture; Co-director of Taube Center for Jewish Studies; Editor, Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society