Professor Gillian Steinberg, an associate professor of English and Director of English Composition, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She holds an MA and PhD from the University of Delaware. At Yeshiva College, she directs the composition program in addition to teaching courses in writing and literature. Her main academic [...]

Dr. Jacob Wisse is an Associate Professor of Art History at Stern College for Women, Co-Chair of YU’s Department of Fine Arts and Music, and Director of Yeshiva University Museum. He has headed the art history program at Stern since 2005 and the YU Museum since 2009. During his first year at YU, he was [...]

Dr. Anna-Lisa Cohen is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She is a cognitive psychologist whose research is guided by an interest in the influence that future goals and intentions have on behavior. She also conducts research on episodic future thinking, which is defined as the ability to mentally simulate specific personal episodes that [...]

Dr. Marina Holz, assistant professor of biology, received a BS degree in microbiology and immunology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and graduated with a PhD in cell biology from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Holz teaches courses in cell and molecular biology, principles of biology for majors, and biotechnology.   1. What did you do [...]

Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel is the E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and at Stern College for Women. One of the foremost scholars in medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature, he is a lifetime fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, a winner of the National [...]

Professor Lin Snider has been an adjunct professor in the speech and English departments at YU since 2006. She teaches Acting, Directing, Playwriting, and Theater History and is the artistic director of the Yeshiva College Dramatic Society. In almost 20 years as a voice and drama teacher, musical director, and director she has worked for [...]

Dr. Abraham Ravid is currently teaching his second semester as Professor of Finance in the Sy Syms School of Business. Prior to receiving his PhD from Cornell University, he worked as a professional journalist. Previous teaching positions include University of Chicago, Wharton, Cornell, Yale, NYU, Columbia, UCLA, Rutgers and Haifa University. His current research interests [...]

Dr. Joseph Angel specializes in the literary heritage of the Jews of the late Second Temple period and the significant role this corpus plays in the reconstruction of classical Judaism. He received his PhD from New York University, and he is the author of Otherworldly and Eschatological Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Studies in [...]

Dr. Anatoly Frenkel is a professor of physics at Yeshiva University and a guest researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He received his MS from St. Petersburg University and his PhD from Tel Aviv University. He received the 2003 Dean Karen Bacon Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Stern College for Women. This past summer, Dr. Frenkel [...]

Dr. Tamar Avnet is an assistant professor of marketing at the Sy Syms School of Business. Previously, she was an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD from Columbia University. Dr. Avnet’s work has been published in top marketing and psychology journals. Her current research is on consumer behavior, [...]