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 Lecturer
*Karen Stern is **a Dartmouth '97 and **an assistant professor of Jewish
History at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dr. Stern majored in Classics and took
several courses in Religion at Dartmouth; she then continued her studies to
earn a PhD in Religious Studies from Brown University. She has completed
visiting fellowships at the Getty Villa Research Institute in Los Angeles and
in the Department of Religion at the University of Southern California. *
The foci of Dr. Stern's research are the material cultures, archaeology, and
cultural histories of Jewish populations in the Greco-Roman world. She has
recently published a monograph that addresses Jewish cultural identity in the
southern Mediterranean,* Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence
for Jewish populations of North Africa* (Brill 2008), and has written articles
that address the interpretations of iconography in Jewish and Christian
funerary art ("Limitations of Jewish as a Label," JSJ 2008). Her next project
addresses the development of the synagogue in the late ancient
Mediterranean.
Dr. Stern has conducted field research in Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt, and
has excavated in Petra in Jordan, Sepphoris in Israel, and at the Palace of
Nestor and the Athenian Agora in Greece. She has been invited to give lectures
at the Getty Villa Research Institute, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the
Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Courses and Programs
2008 Spring
- REL 4 (2) Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) (Identical
to Jewish Studies 4)
- REL 57 (2A) The Bible and Beyond: The History and Literature of the Second
Temple Period
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