Jewish Studies Faculty

Meet our faculty!

Interim Directors

Aimee Arias
Interim Director of Budget, Student Life, and Community Relations at the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program
Dean of the College of Charleston School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs
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Elizabeth Meyer-Bernstein
Interim Director of Academics at the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program
Dean of the Honors College
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Faculty

Keren Ayalon
Hebrew Instructor
 
Yaron Ayalon
Associate Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
 
Ezra Cappell
Professor of Jewish Studies & English

Max Daniel
Public Historian and Jewish Heritage Collection Coordinator
at Special Collections in the Addlestone Library
 
Chad S.A. Gibbs
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
Director of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies
 
Joshua Shanes
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies
Director of Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Center for Israel Studies
 
Ashley Walters
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
Affiliate Faculty for Women’s and Gender Studies
Director of Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture
 

Staff

Sandra Brett
Director of the Charleston Jewish Filmfest
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Kim Browdy
Associate Director for Community Relations for the Yachik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program
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Enid Idelsohn
Director of Operations and Administrator for the Yaschik Arnold Jewish Studies Program
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Jordan Kodner
Director of the College of Charleston Hillel
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Shoshi Weiss
Jewish Student Life Coordinator for the College of Charleston Hillel 

Affiliate Staff

Rachel Barnett
Executive Director of the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina

Alyssa Neely
Administrator and Publications Specialist for the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina