Academic Staff of the ACJC
Associate Professor Mark Baker
- Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.
- Holocaust and genocide studies, Arab-Israel conflict.
- mark.baker@arts.monash.edu.au
Professor Leah Garrett
- Loti Smorgon Chair of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture
- Jewish Culture, American Immigrant History and Zionism
- leah.garrett@arts.monash.edu.au
Professor Andrew Markus
- Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation
- Western frameworks for understanding of the Middle East; the structure of racial thought - and the nature of variations within racial thought; demographic and attitudinal change within Melbourne's Jewish community; the utilisation and impact of electronic resources on teaching practices and outcomes in the humanities and social sciences.
- andrew.markus@arts.monash.edu.au
Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger
- Leon Liberman Chair of Modern Israel Studies
- fania.oz-salzberger@arts.monash.edu.au
Dr Michael Fagenblat
- Lecturer
- Rabbinic literature, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, contemporary phenomenology.
- michael.fagenblat@arts.monash.edu.au
Mr Paul Forgasz
- Lecturer
- Ancient, medieval and modern Jewish history; Jewish-Christian relations; Jewish education; teaching Bible
- paul.forgasz@arts.monash.edu.au
Ms Melanie Landau
- Lecturer
- Jewish Law, Jewish Feminist theory and practice, rabbinic literature.
- melanie.landau@arts.monash.edu.au
Dr Nathan Wolski
- Lecturer
- Bible, Kabbalah, contemporary Jewish thought.
- nathan.wolski@arts.monash.edu.au
Kieran Mitchell
- Research Assistant, Israel Studies
- Kieran Mitchell is Research Assistant to the Chair of Modern Israel Studies. He graduated with First Class Honours from Sydney University in November, 2006; his thesis investigated the nature of women’s service in the Israeli military. He has undertaken a Diploma of Language Studies and a Master of Israel Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- kieran.mitchell@arts.monash.edu.au
Dr Miriam Munz
- Research Associate, Jewish Studies
- miriam.munz@arts.monash.edu.au
Danielle Charak
- Yiddish Language and Culture
- danielle.charak@arts.monash.edu.au
Michael Katzew
- Hebrew Language and Culture
- michael.katzew@arts.monash.edu.au
Dan Rabinovici
- Senior Tutor, Holocaust and Genocide, Arab-Israel Studies
- dan.rabinovici@arts.monash.edu.au
Keren Rubinstein
- Hebrew Language and Culture
- keren.rubinstein@arts.monash.edu.au
Dr Deborah Staines
- Lecturer
- Holocaust and Genocide studies, critical theory
- deborah.staines@arts.monash.edu.au
Bobbi Zylberman
- Yiddish Language and Culture
- yiddishemame@yahoo.com.au