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.
The time at Buber was the most significant period of my academic life. After it ended, I waited for answers from Bar-Ilan regarding an academic posittion. In January 2020 I started working at Bar-Ilan Uni. I really miss the Buber time, learning and being with amazing people
Professor Stefanie Middendorf, born in 1973, is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany, and appointed Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and the German Historical Institute in London for 2025/26. She is currently member of the steering committee of the excellence cluster project “Imaginamics” at the University of Jena and editor of the “Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte”. Stefanie Middendorf has studied History, Literature and Psychology in Freiburg, Basel and Jerusalem, holds a PhD in History from Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg and has received her post-doctoral qualification (“habilitation) from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in 2019.
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Her recent research focuses on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust, emergency rule and state violence in comparative perspectives. She has also published widely on European and French cultural history, the experience of crises, the history of capitalism and colonialism, and German-Jewish history in the long twentieth century. Her monographs include “Macht der Ausnahme. Reichsfinanzministerium und Staatlichkeit 1919-1945” (Berlin/Boston 2022) and “Massenkultur. Zur Wahrnehmung gesellschaftlicher Modernität in Frankreich, 1880-1980 (Göttingen 2009).
Professor Maren R. Niehoff was born in 1963 in Germany and currently holds the Max Cooper Chair in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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She was the head of the interdisciplinary honors program in the humanities, “AMIRIM”. Currently, she serves as the head of a research group at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (2017-18). Her research focuses on encounters between Jews, pagans and Christians in the Greco-Roman period. Her recent publications include monographs on Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (Cambridge University Press 2011, awarded the Polonsky Prize) and Philo of Alexandria ,being translated into both German and Hebrew, ((Ha-Kibbutz ha-Meuhad), an Intellectual biography (Yale University Press 2017, German translation forthcoming at Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen) as well as edited volumes on Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Leiden 2012) and Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real (Tübingen 2017).
After finishing my tenure at Buber I was a Gerda Henkel fellow in 2020, as well as a teaching fellow at the Hebrew University and Seminar HaKibutzim. In 2021 I joined the Dan David Prize to assist in its reformatting as the largest History prize in the world.
After 2 years in Buber I accepted a tenure track position at Bar Ilan University. I published the book I worked on during my time at the Buber, and today I am a senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University.
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