Faculty

Expert in "jewish-studies"

Zen T. Kuriyama

Assistant Professor of Music

zkuriyama@bates.edu | 207-786-6418

choral music, classical voice, conducting, English musical nationalism, Gerald Finzi, historical musicology, Jewish studies, Jewishness and antisemitism in nineteenth and twentieth-century European musical culture, music theory, performance studies, sacred music

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

spridgeo@bates.edu | 207-786-8352

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

cbaker@bates.edu | 207-786-6308

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible