The Martin Buber Society of Fellows Academic Committee

	Prof. Margalit Finkelberg Margalit Finkelberg (Ph.D. 1986, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is Professor of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (Oxford 1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks. Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (Cambridge 2005), and of numerous articles on Homer and epic tradition, Aegean prehistory, poetics and literary theory, Greek drama, Greek popular morality and religion; the co-editor (with G. G. Stroumsa) of Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (Leiden, 2003); and the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols., Wiley-Blackwell; forthcoming). She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
	Prof. Ursula Lehmkuhl Ursula Lehmkuhl teaches the history of international relations, Atlantic history, the history of the Cold War and migration history. Her research interests include colonial, migration and environmental history, the history of Anglo-American relations during the 19^th century, the history of Canadian and American foreign relations 20^th century and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood. She published several books, among them Enemy Images in American History (1997), Pax Anglo-Americana: Machtstrukturelle Grundlagen anglo-amerikanischer Asien- und Fernostpolitik in den 1950er Jahren (1999), Atlantic Communications: The Media in American and German History from the 17th to the 20th Century (2004) and History and Nature: Comparative Approaches to Environmental History (2007). From 2007 to 2010 she served as First Vice President and then Acting President of Freie Universitaet Berlin. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Historical-Cultural Studies Research Center (HKFZ) and the „Forschungszentrum Europa. Strukturen langer Dauer und Gegenwartsprobleme” (FZE), both at the University of Trier. She is the academic director of one of the largest immigrant letter collections in Europe, the Nordamerika-Briefsammlung, situated at the Research Library Gotha in Thuringia. In cooperation with Norbert Finzsch (University of Cologne) she currently directs a DFG-funded research project on settler imperialism in North America and Australia during the first half of the 19^th century.
	Prof. Maria Mavroudi Maria Mavroudi is Professor of Byzantine History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the contacts between Byzantium and the Arabs, the medieval reception of ancient Greek learning in the Byzantine and the Islamic worlds, and the history of Byzantine science.
	Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer Jacob (Kobi) Metzer is Alexander Brody Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been on the faculty of the HebrewUniversity since receiving his Ph.D in Economics at the University of Chicago in 1972. His main research areas are the economic history of Mandatory Palestine and Israel, modern Jewish immigration and employment patterns, economic aspects of ethno-nationalism and the economics of settler societies in world history. Among his books: National Capital for a National Home (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1978, in Hebrew), The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine (Cambridge, 1998), Land Rights, Ethno-Nationalism and Sovereignty in History (co-edited with Stanley Engerman, Routledge, 2004). At the HebrewUniversity he served as chair of the Department of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and founding chair of the Library Authority. He has been recently nominated Chair of the Academic Council of the Hebrew University Magnes Press. He Held visiting professorships at StanfordUniversity, UC Berkeley, NorthwesternUniversity, and the London School of Economics, and fellowships at St Antony’s College Oxford, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He was a member of the International Economic History Association’s Central Academic (Executive) Committee and was elected President of the Israel Economic Association for 2009-2010.
	Prof. David Shulman David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a philologist specializing in the languages and literatures of India, in particular the Dravidian languages of the south (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam) and Sanskrit. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1976, with a dissertation on the mythology of the Tamil Saiva temples. He has published extensively on poetry, poetics, history of religion, historiography, and music in pre-modern South India. He has worked closely with colleagues such as Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Yigal Bronner, and Don Handelman. Among his books: Tamil Temple Myths (1980), The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry (1985), The Hungry God (1992), God Inside Out: Siva's Game of Dice (1998, with Don Handelman); Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka-Period Tamil Nadu (1993, with Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam), The Wisdom of Poets (2001), and many translations from Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit. He is now completing a history of the imagination in South India (More than Real: Harvard University Press, forthcoming). In the years 1992-1998 he was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Prize and the Rothschild Prize. His true passion: Carnatic music.
	Prof. Dorothea Weltecke Professor, Universität Konstanz. Since 2007 Dorothea Weltecke is Full Professor for the History of Religions and Religious Cultures at the University of Constance and Principal Investigator in the university’s Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration”. From 2001 to 2007 she worked as research associate at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen and, prior to that, worked on a DFG sponsored project investigating “trust” at the University of Bielefeld. She received research grants from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” and the German Research Foundation. Dorothea Weltecke studies the inter and intra-religious dynamics in the history of religions in Europe and the Middle East by following a transcultural, comparative and integrative approach. She particularly focuses on the centuries between 500 and 1500, the history of religious minorities, religious deviance and religious violence.
	Prof. Theda Skocpol Theda Skocpol (PhD, Harvard, 1975) is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. At Harvard, she has served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2005-2007) and as Director of the Center for American Political Studies (2000-2006). In 1996, Skocpol served as President of the Social Science History Association and, in 2002-03, she served as President of the American Political Science Association. In 2007, she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, one of the largest and most prestigious awards in political science. Skocpol has also been elected to membership in all three major U.S. interdisciplinary honor societies: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1994), the American Philosophical Society (elected 2006), and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2008). Skocpol's work covers an unusually broad spectrum of topics including both comparative politics (States and Social Revolutions, 1979) and American politics (Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, 1992). Her books and articles have been widely cited in political science literature and have won numerous awards. Skocpol's research focuses on U.S. social policy and civic engagement in American democracy, including changes since the 1960s. Her most recent books are Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2010 (with Lawrence R. Jacobs), Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama’s First Two Years, 2011 (co-edited with Lawrence R. Jacobs), and The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, 2011 (with Vanessa Williamson).