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 Dr. Leah Hochman Appointed Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Dr. Leah Hochman has been appointed Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Los Angeles, as of July 1, 2008. In announcing this appointment, Rabbi David Ellenson, HUC-JIR President, noted, "Dr. Hochman's scholarly expertise and excellence in teaching will enrich our Los Angeles campus's learning community. We look forward to her contributions as a gifted scholar, as an academic colleague to our faculty, and as a teacher and mentor to our rabbinical, education, and Jewish communal service students." Dr. Hochman received the M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion and Literature from Boston University, where her dissertation explored "Sign, Art, and Ritual: Moses Mendelssohn on Language and Religion." She received the B.A. with honors from Pitzer College and studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem's Rothberg School for Overseas Students. Her areas of specialization include religion and literature; modern and contemporary Judaism's Jewish thought, and religious thought; 18th-century aesthetics and the European Enlightenment; Jewish studies; religion and politics; German-Jewish studies; American Judaisms and Jewish literature; Judaism in the Americas; and gender and Judaism. Dr. Hochman has served as Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies in the Department and Center for Jewish Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of Florida; Instructor in Core Curriculum and Teaching Fellow at the College of Arts and Sciences of Boston University. Her publications include the forthcoming Mendelssohn's Ugly and Atlas of Judaism, as well as articles published in the Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion and Culture, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Teaching Theology and Religion, Eighteenth Century Life, and Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert. Dr. Hochman has had numerous fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Union Theological Seminary, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Florida, Potsdam University, Leo Baeck Institute, and Mellon Foundation. Her academic papers have been presented at conferences throughout North America and Great Britain, and she taught an online course for HUC-JIR's Academy for Adult Interfaith Studies on "Jewish Belief and Practice" and lectured widely at synagogues, Christian study centers, and Jewish centers throughout Florida. Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation’s oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offers graduate programs to scholars and clergy of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR’s scholarly resources comprise the renowned Klau Library, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. In partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, HUC-JIR sustains the Reform Movement’s congregations and professional and lay leaders. HUC-JIR’s campuses invite the community to cultural and educational programs illuminating Jewish history, identity, art, and archaeology, and fostering interfaith and multiethnic understanding. |
