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Academic Staff

Full Time Name Email Phone Interests
Associate Professor Mark Baker mark.baker@monash.edu +61 39903 5001 Director, Holocaust and Genocide studies, Arab-Israel conflict, modern Jewish history, terrorism, conflict and reconciliation
Professor Andrew Markus andrew.markus@monash.edu +61 3 9903 5009 Social cohesion, Jewish identity and sociology, Middle East, racial thought, comparative diasporas, demographics and immigration
Professor Leah Garrett leah.garrett@monash.edu +61 3 9903 5010 Jewish culture, American immigrant history, Zionism
Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger fania.oz-salzberger@monash.edu   Israel studies, history of ideas
Dr Michael Fagenblat michael.fagenblat@monash.edu +61 3 9903 5005 Rabbinic literature, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, contemporary phenomenology
Dr Nathan Wolski nathan.wolski@monash.edu +61 3 9903 5006 Bible, Kabbalah, contemporary Jewish thought
Dr Karen Auerbach karen.auerbach@monash.edu +61 3 9903 5007 Modern Jewish history, East European Jewish history, history of the Holocaust, Polish history, postwar Jewish life, Polish-Jewish relations, Jews and the city
Dr David Slucki david.slucki@monash.edu +61 3 9903 5005 Modern Jewish history in France, Australia, and the Americas; the Holocaust and its aftermath; postwar Jewish migration; Diaspora; Memory; Labour history; public history; Holocaust representation on film & television.
Sessional        
Mr Paul Forgasz paul.forgasz@monash.edu.au +61 3 9903 5003 Ancient, medieval and modern Jewish history; Jewish-Christian relations; Jewish education; teaching Bible
Mr Dan Rabinovici dan.rabinovici@monash.edu +61 3 9903 5003 Holocaust and Genocide studies, Arab-Israel studies
Ms Hinde Burstin ena.burstin@monash.edu   Yiddish
Ms Sue Hampel sue.hampel@monash.edu   Holocaust and Genocide studies

Associated Staff

Professor Andrew Benjamin andrew.benjamin@monash.edu +61 3 9905 8097 Literature and philosophy, architecture and philosophy, French and German critical theory
Professor Margaret Kartomi margaret.kartomi@monash.edu +61 3 9905 3238 Musicological and ethnomusicological theory
Dr Kathy Temin kathy.temin@monash.edu +61 3 9903 2484 Sculpture, monuments, installation, Holocaust memorials, art and music, popular culture and suburbia
Dr Philip Mendes philip.mendes@monash.edu +61 3 9903 1132 Social work; leaving care policy and practice.
Bronia Kornhauser bronia.kornhauser@monash.edu +61 3 9905 9032 Jewish music in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region
Dr Ilana Snyder ilana.snyder@monash.edu +61 3 9905 2773 Literacy, technology and social inclusion

Emeritus Professors

Professor Louis Waller louis.waller@monash.edu +61 3 9905 3302 Criminal law, evidence, law and medicine, law reform
Professor Bernard Rechter bernard.rechter@monash.edu    

Adjuncts

Dr Miriam Munz miriam.munz@monash.edu +61 3 9903 5004 Yiddish Melbourne
Dr Chanan Reich chanan.reich@monash.edu    
Dr David Mittelberg david.mittelberg@monash.edu    
Dr Merav Carmeli     Kabbalah
Dr Andrew Firestone andrew.firestone@monash.edu   Yiddish Melbourne
John Goldlust john.goldlust@monash.edu   Jewish demography and population studies

Professional Staff

  Name and title Phone Email
Director, Associate Professor Mark Baker +61 3 9903 5001 mark.baker@monash.edu
Centre Manager, Helen Midler +61 3 9903 5016 helen.midler@monash.edu
Centre Administrator, Gillian Brameld +61 3 9903 5002 gillian.brameld@monash.edu
Development Manager, Karen Klein +61 3 9903 5015 karen.klein@monash.edu
Manager, Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies, Tammy Reznik +61 3 9903 5019 tammy.reznik@monash.edu
Research Associate, Tanya Munz +61 3 9903 5018 tanya.munz@monash.edu

SOPHIS Staff

SOPHIS staff contacts page.

ACJC Academic Coordinators

Postgraduate Research

Professor Leah Garrett
Phone: +613 9903 5010
Email: leah.garrett@monash.edu

Honours and Postgraduate Coursework

Dr Karen Auerbach
Phone: + 613 9903 5007
Email: karen.auerbach@monash.edu

Undergraduate Studies and Accreditation

Dr David Slucki
Phone: + 613 9903 5005
Email: david.slucki@monash.edu