Jewish Studies Full Directory | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Picture	Name	Contact
	Ruth Adams Acting Director, Associate Director, School of Art and Visual Studies Professor of Photography	ruth.adams@uky.edu 103 School of Art and Visual Studies Building 859-257-4013, 859-257-8151
	Martin Luther Chan Assistant Professor of Hebrew	martinluther@uky.edu 1469 Patterson Office Tower 8592183723
	Francie Chassen-López Professor, Otis A. Singletary Professorship of the Humanities Postcolonial Mexico; Latin American culture and society; gender history, History and Biography, War and Gender	frclopz@email.uky.edu 1771 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-4344
	Janice W. Fernheimer Full Professor, Zantker Charitable Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies Past President, Klal Rhetorica Director, Program in Jewish Studies Composition and Rhetoric, Kentucky African American history, Oral History, Jewish Studies, Bourbon, Rhetoric and Writing, Visual Rhetoric and Comics, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Rhetorics, Writing and the Bourbon Industry, Jewish Kentucky	jfernheimer@uky.edu 1303 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6973
	Raphael Finkel Professor of Computer Science	raphael.finkel@uky.edu 230 James F. Hardymon 257-3885
	Jonathan Glixon	musglix@uky.edu
	Beth Goldstein Associate Professor	bethg@coe.uky.edu
	Sheila E. Jelen Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies Zantker Professor of Jewish Literature, Culture and History Gender and Jewish literature, Popular Ethnography and American Jewish Identity, Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity, Hassidic Narratives and Secular Culture, Documentary Photography and Post-Holocaust Identity, Translation and Jewish American Identity, Literature of the Holocaust, The Ethics of Representation, Testimony and Trauma	sjelen@uky.edu 1475 Patterson Office Tower 7-7557
	Jackie Murray Associate Professor Classics, African American & Africana Studies, Gender & Women Studies, Ancient Greek Philosophy Hellenistic Poetry, Greek and Latin literature, Caribbean Culture and Literature, race studies and racial formation, Imperial Greek Literature, Slavery, Ancient Philosophy	jmu245@g.uky.edu 1077 Patterson Office Tower
	David Olster Professor Early Christianity; Byzantium; rhetoric	dmolst01@uky.edu 1775 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-4348
	Jeremy D Popkin Professor William T. Bryan Chair Professorship Professor Popkin is not currently accepting graduate students.	popkin@uky.edu 1725 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1415
	Jill Rappoport Associate Professor Department Chair Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Women's Literature and Gender Studies, Literary Theory	jill.rappoport@uky.edu 1203 Patterson Office Tower
	Jim Ridolfo Director of Composition Professor Rhetorical Delivery, Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, Digital Rhetoric	jimridolfo@uky.edu 1327 Patterson Office Tower
	Dmitry "Dima" Strakovsky	211 Reynolds Building
	Haralambos Symeonidis (Χαράλαμπος Συμεωνίδης) Professor of Spanish Linguistics Co-Director of ALGR (Atlas Lingüístico Guaraní-Románico) Professor at Middlebury Language School Summer 2010 Professor at Middlebury Language School (Buenos Aires) Summer 2012-today Invited scholar at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (March 2017) Invited scholar at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Executive Director of KFLC Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese in South America (Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil), Judaeo-Spanish, Language Contact, Eurovision Song Contest and Language Use	haralambos.symeonidis@uky.edu 1129 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-2629