Beverly Weber

What's New in Jewish Studies, 2022-2023

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:11:11 +0000

What's New in Jewish Studies, 2022-2023 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/22/2022 - 09:11

As we enter the 2022-2023 academic year, we are pleased to announce a variety of new developments in the Program in Jewish Studies at ��Ҵ�ý�ƽ��.

We are very excited to welcome two new members to Jewish Studies, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the new Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History, and Angela Watts, our new Manager of Finance and Business Operations.

Gregg Drinkwater has been named one of the inaugural recipients of the Association for Jewish Studies’s new Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants, which will support his project "Prelude to Pinkwashing: Homonationalism, Diaspora, and the Gay Jewish Embrace of Israel.” Prof. Drinkwater has also been appointed Associate Academic Director of the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections.

The Nonbinary Hebrew Project, co-created by Eyal Rivlin, is increasingly being integrated into university curricula across the U.S., as well as language-learning technology platforms, including Language Drops. Read about the Gender Inclusive Hebrew Language Conference, co-organized by Prof. Rivlin this past spring.

Maggie Rosenau is the new Project Manager for Jews of Color: Histories and Futures.

Rebecca Wartell has been selected to be part of a cohort of faculty at the CU Art Museum focused on developing new modes of object-based teaching and experiential learning.

Beverly Weber has been appointed Chair of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures.

Be sure to register for our first fall event: Yiddish Paris: Creating a Jewish Nation Between Two World Wars.

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Beverly Weber publishes a co-written article in a special issue of Feminist Formations

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:48:17 +0000

Beverly Weber publishes a co-written article in a special issue of Feminist Formations Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/01/2022 - 12:48

Beverly Weber has a new co-written article in the special issue of Feminist Formations: Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University. Read her article “Decolonizing Time, Knowledge, and Disability on the Tenure Clock” here.

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Feminist German Studies names incoming Co-Editor, Beverly Weber

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:28:07 +0000

Feminist German Studies names incoming Co-Editor, Beverly Weber Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/17/2021 - 11:28

Professor Beverly Weber (University of Colorado Boulder) has been appointed Co-Editor of Feminist German Studies for a three-year term starting in January 2022. Beverly will be joining Alexandra Hill as FGS Co-Editor at the conclusion of Co-Editor Hester Baer’s term. Beverly comes to the position with a strong record of research, publication, and editing experience. The search committee was especially impressed with Beverly’s dedication and leadership within the organization, her vision for the journal, and her demonstrated understanding of the importance of strong feminist mentorship and the role that the journal plays in mentoring scholars at various stages in their lives and careers. Beverly’s commitment to antiracist feminism, decolonization, and social justice as well as her desire to facilitate transdisciplinary conversations across fields will serve the journal well. We are truly honored that Beverly has agreed to accept this position and look forward to seeing the continued rigorous and innovative feminist scholarship that will emerge in the years ahead.

See original announcement here

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Meet the New Director of the Program in Jewish Studies; Meghan Perea Promoted in Arts & Sciences

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:31:19 +0000

Meet the New Director of the Program in Jewish Studies; Meghan Perea Promoted in Arts & Sciences Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/02/2019 - 10:31

We are excited to announce the appointment of Professor Elias Sacks as the new Director of the Program in Jewish Studies. Professor Sacks succeeds Professor Nan Goodman, who will continue to serve as a faculty member with the Program in Jewish Studies and Department of English. This fall, Professor Sacks will be on sabbatical and will begin his directorship on January 1, 2020. During his sabbatical, Professor Beverly Weber will serve as the Interim Director for the Program in Jewish Studies beginning July 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019.

We're also pleased to announce that Meghan Perea, Executive Manager of the Program in Jewish Studies, has received a promotion within the College of Arts & Sciences at ��Ҵ�ý�ƽ��.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Sacks, Professor Weber, and Meghan Perea on their new appointments! Thank you, Professor Goodman, for your work as the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies!

Continue reading to learn more about these changes in Jewish Studies!

Professor Nan Goodman

Outgoing Director of the Program in Jewish Studies

To our students, colleagues, program and library staff, College administrators, community members, and donors, I write with a fond farewell. It has been an honor and privilege serving as Director of the Program in Jewish Studies these last four years. My term as Director came to an end on June 30, 2019, and I am stepping down in order to devote more time to my research and writing. There can be no question, however, that my all of my future endeavors, scholarly and pedagogical, will be informed by everything I have learned as Director of this energetic, innovative, and intellectually diverse program. In my Jewish Studies classrooms, I have had the good fortune to teach some of the most curious students of my career; I have enjoyed and benefited from a myriad of conversations with my colleagues on topics ranging from Jewish philosophy to music; I have expanded my knowledge of the Jewish experience in America by immersing myself in our growing archival collections; I have made lasting friendships with and witnessed an outpouring of generosity from a variety of community members; and I’ve had the pleasure of working with two of the most talented and dedicated staff members I’ve ever known.

I am also happy to say, I have added value to this gem of a program. I leave the program in a stronger place, having launched a number of initiatives that have expanded our public education programming and increased our fundraising to unprecedented levels. I have also overseen three new hires for faculty members whose research areas and class offerings have enriched our curriculum, and I have worked diligently on existing faculty retention and support at the same time. I have broadened the interdisciplinary reach of an already interdisciplinary program, bringing English and Dance graduate students as well as a faculty collaboration with Women and Gender Studies into the mix, and I have doubled down on our efforts to recruit more students into our newly user friendly major and minor tracks.

To our wonderful incoming Director, Eli Sacks, whose term officially starts in January 2020, and Interim Director, Beverly Weber, who will lead the Program in Fall 2019, I wish you the best of luck and am so glad you will be at the helm. Finally, I know Beverly and Eli join me in thanking Meghan Perea, whose service to PJS has been incomparable. We all wish her well in her new administrative staff position in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Felicidades and parabéns!

Nan Goodman

Professor Beverly Weber

Interim Director for the Program in Jewish Studies, July 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019

Professor Weber is Associate Professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies, and joined PJS in 2014. For the last two years she has been privileged to serve as the Associate Director of Graduate Studies. She teaches courses on racisms in Europe after 1970, Holocaust memory, film, and refugee art and activism. She is currently writing a book manuscript, Decolonizing Hospitality, on refuge and sanctuary in contemporary German culture. Her first book, Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe: Islam in German Culture, examines racist and Islamophobic responses to gender violence in German politics and news media, as well as Muslim women’s challenges to gender violence and racism in literature, art, and popular media. Her co-authored book (with Maria Stehle) entitled Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary European Cinema will appear in early 2020; it explores intimate friendships and relationships in films about those living extremely precarious lives - particularly refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.

"I am honored to be stepping in as interim director in the fall. This is a wonderful opportunity to serve a program that has provided such an inspiring and supportive intellectual community, and that I believe is a model for interdisciplinary thinking and learning. It is daunting, of course, to serve as a transitional point between Nan's impressive work and accomplishments and what will be an equally exciting time for Jewish Studies under Eli's directorship."

Professor Weber will resume her duties as the Graduate Director of the Program in Jewish Studies Spring 2020.

Please contact Professor Beverly Weber or CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu with any Jewish Studies related inquiries you may have between July 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019.

Professor Elias Sacks

New Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, Starting January 1, 2020

Elias Sacks, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, will become Director of the Program in Jewish Studies in January 2020. His research and teaching focus on Jewish thought, Jewish-Christian relations, philosophy of religion, religion and politics, and religious ethics, with a particular interest in the modern period. He is the author of Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017), as well as articles on medieval and modern thinkers such as Moses Maimonides, Baruch Spinoza, Nachman Krochmal, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Jacob Taubes. Sacks also published some of the first English translations of Moses Mendelssohn’s Hebrew writings in Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible (Brandeis University Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He sits on the board of the Society of Jewish Ethics and is a past president of the Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Region of the American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature, and since joining the University of Colorado Boulder in 2012, he has served as Associate Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, Associate Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, and a member of the Center for Humanities and the Arts steering committee.

"I’m humbled and excited to take over as Director of Jewish Studies because I believe that what we do in this program stands at the heart of what a public university can and must do in the twenty-first century. By fostering the interdisciplinary exploration of global Jewish culture, history, religion, and thought, we provide students with the skills to become critical thinkers and engaged global citizens; we empower faculty to pose new questions and generate new knowledge; and we engage the broader public to wrestle with ethical, political, and religious questions central to contemporary life. I am deeply grateful for the leadership of my predecessors, Nan Goodman and David Shneer, and I’m thrilled that Beverly Weber will be serving as interim director this fall."

While Professor Sacks will be working closely with our community during the Fall 2019 semester, he will be on sabbatical. Please contact Professor Beverly Weber or CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu with any Jewish Studies related inquiries you may have before January 1, 2020.

Meghan Perea

Outgoing Executive Manager with the Program in Jewish Studies

I am delighted to announce that I have received a promotion in the College of Arts and Sciences and will be taking a lead administrative position in CU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. This is an advancement opportunity in which I will be learning new professional skills in leadership and management.

I am comfortable making this transition in my career at this time because I am confident that I am leaving Jewish Studies in a place of strength. I am so proud of all we have accomplished over the seven years I have worked in the program, and I am equally excited about what is to come. Indeed, this is a bittersweet moment for me. I cannot express the profound sense of gratitude and love I feel for the Program in Jewish Studies, our faculty and staff, our incredible students, and our wonderful community. Jewish Studies has been my home for nearly a decade. Having been both student and staff, I feel strongly that Jewish Studies is a model for what an academic unit can be at CU. I want to thank you all for everything you have done to make my time here in PJS truly wonderful. Students, working with you has been my favorite part of the job. It has meant the world to me to learn alongside such engaged, intelligent, and compassionate people. To our community members, PJS would not be possible without you. Thank you for all you do for PJS faculty, students, and staff.

I especially want to thank Professor Nan Goodman and Professor David Shneer, who were the two wonderful directors during my time in PJS. Thank you both for your inspired leadership.

I deeply regret that I will not have the chance to continue to work with Professor Beverly Weber and Professor Elias Sacks as they take over the directorship of the program. Having worked with them both on many projects over the years, there is no doubt in my mind that PJS is heading in exciting directions. They are both administratively savvy, care deeply about the success of PJS, have creative ideas about where PJS can go next, and are delightful colleagues to boot! With Professor Weber and Professor Sacks at the helm and Vanessa Frye, Communications and Outreach Administrator, holding down the fort (who, I must add, is one of the most talented, creative, and compassionate staff members I have ever worked with), I am confident that PJS will continue to thrive. I’m also grateful to Michelle Gaffga, Director of Development in CU Advancement, and her team, and Michael Lynn, Academic Advisor for Jewish Studies, who are incredible colleagues and will continue to be amazing resources for Jewish Studies’ community and students. Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of them with questions.

I will have a two-month, staged transition beginning July 1, 2019, so that I may work part-time in PJS to assist with finding and training my replacement and keeping the ball rolling during the transition. My official last day will be August 30, 2019. Please understand that during this transition period, I may be slower to respond to emails and requests.

And finally, please know, I will not be going far! I will still be in the College of Arts and Sciences at CU, and I look forward to participating with the Program in Jewish Studies as a staff collaborator and active community member.

Thank you, to this Jewish Studies community, for everything.

Meghan

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Professor Beverly Weber publishes article, "The German Refugee "Crisis" after Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights"

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:43:14 +0000

Professor Beverly Weber publishes article, "The German Refugee "Crisis" after Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights" Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/28/2017 - 08:43

Beverly Weber's most recent article on contemporary refugee migration in Germany, "The German Refugee “Crisis” after Cologne: The Race of Refugee Rights" has appeared in English Language Notes over the summer. She also conducted research in Germany this summer for her book manuscript Race, Rights and Refugee Migration. This fall she will give talks at the University of Pittsburgh (as part of the workshop "The Muslim Question in Europe") and the University of Toronto (as part of the workshop Islamophobia East/West). She is co-convener of the German Studies Association Seminar "Feminist Scholar-Activism and the Politics of Affect", and will co-present "Speculative Feminisms: Transnational Connection and Collaboration" at the Women in German annual meeting.

Professor Weber is currently serving as the Undergraduate Associate Chair and German Program Head in GSLL, the Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, and as a Steering Committee member for Women in German.

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Beverly Weber attends faculty seminar at USHMM; publishes articles in Feminist Media Studies and Critical Ethnic Studies

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:01:46 +0000

Beverly Weber attends faculty seminar at USHMM; publishes articles in Feminist Media Studies and Critical Ethnic Studies Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/25/2016 - 10:01

Beverly Weber attended the 2016 Silberman faculty seminar at the USHMM, "Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Teaching through Primary Sources."

She also conducted research this summer for her current book project on race and racism in the language of human rights; several articles from this project, focused on the German refugee crisis, will be published later this year. She recently published two additional articles: “Kübra Gümüşay, Muslim Digital Feminism and the Politics of Visuality in Germany” in Feminist Media Studies (to be reprinted as well in Digital Feminisms. Transnational Activism in German Protest Cultures), and “Precarious Intimacies and Yoko Tawada’s Europe” in the Journal of Critical Ethnic Studies.

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PJS Welcomes Professor Beverly Weber to Our Faculty

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:46:50 +0000

PJS Welcomes Professor Beverly Weber to Our Faculty Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/26/2015 - 14:46

The Program in Jewish Studies is delighted to welcome Beverly Weber, Associate Professor of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures and Jewish Studies, to the Program.

Professor Weber grew up in southwestern Minnesota and earned her PhD in Comparative Literature and a graduate certificate in Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; MA degrees in Comparative Literature and German from the Pennsylvania State University; and a BA with majors in English and German from Gustavus Adolphus College. Her research and teaching interests in Jewish Studies primarily center on contemporary racisms in Europe, with an emphasis on Germany. On leave for the Fall 2015 semester, Professor Weber is currently working on a range of upcoming projects, including a talk on post-secularism and precarity in Europe, a co-authored project on representations of intimacy in contemporary European cinema, and a book manuscript on the relationship between racializations and conceptions of human rights in contemporary Europe.

Professor Weber's research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, gender, and migration in Germany and Europe; comparative studies of racialization; digital activism; contemporary visual cultures; contemporary German literature and culture; representations of the Holocaust; and Islam in Europe. Her interdisciplinary work is informed by transnational feminist cultural studies frameworks, with a current focus on theories of precarity and intimacy and incorporates analysis of popular media, literature, and film.

Her first book, Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe: Islam in German Culture, examines how current thinking about Islam and gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against a range of forms of violence. It then analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and popular media. Her current project explores the entanglements of racialized histories and European discourses of rights in contemporary culture. She is also working on another project with Maria Stehle examining representations of intimacy and Europeanness in contemporary film.

When asked about what she felt was the biggest highlight of joining the Program, Professor Weber replied "This is a wonderfully supportive and stimulating intellectual community!"

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