Nan Goodman /jewishstudies/ en Nan Goodman selected to be a Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies /jewishstudies/2022/02/21/nan-goodman-selected-be-fellow-herbert-d-katz-center-advanced-judaic-studies <span>Nan Goodman selected to be a Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2022-02-21T12:04:56-07:00" title="Monday, February 21, 2022 - 12:04">Mon, 02/21/2022 - 12:04</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/nan_goodman_bw_2018_1.png?h=04d92ac6&amp;itok=tR7wfvBI" width="1200" height="800" alt="Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/199" hreflang="en">Spotlight All</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/nan_goodman_bw_2018.png?itok=qcohbu9c" width="750" height="778" alt="Professor Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> Nan Goodman has been selected to be a Fellow for Fall 2022 at&nbsp;the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the&nbsp;University of Pennsylvania.&nbsp;While at Penn, she’ll be working on her current book as part of an interdisciplinary cohort of fellows exploring&nbsp;the theme of "Jews and Modern Legal Culture."<p><a href="https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/scholarly-programs/international-fellowship/apply" rel="nofollow">More about this fellowship here.</a></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:04:56 +0000 Anonymous 1405 at /jewishstudies Recent Publications from Nan Goodman /jewishstudies/2021/03/31/recent-publications-nan-goodman <span>Recent Publications from Nan Goodman</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-03-31T11:05:36-06:00" title="Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - 11:05">Wed, 03/31/2021 - 11:05</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/nan_goodman_bw_2018_2.png?h=04d92ac6&amp;itok=BFuJxsGg" width="1200" height="800" alt="Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/199" hreflang="en">Spotlight All</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/nan_goodman_bw_2018_2.png?itok=QooRb3gT" width="750" height="750" alt="Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> Nan Goodman,&nbsp;Professor, English and Jewish Studies and Editor in Chief, <em>English Language Notes, </em>recently published the following:&nbsp;<p>“The Jewish Apostate and the American Expatriate: Leave-Taking in the Early American Republic,” <em>Journal of the Early Republic</em>, 41.1, 69-86, 2021<br> She also contributed this short piece, “Jewish Apostasy and American Citizenship Revisited.” to <em>The Panorama: &nbsp;Expansive Views from the Journal of the Early Republic</em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:05:36 +0000 Anonymous 1337 at /jewishstudies Professor Nan Goodman Delivers Talk at University of Sarajevo /jewishstudies/2019/10/22/professor-nan-goodman-delivers-talk-university-sarajevo <span>Professor Nan Goodman Delivers Talk at University of Sarajevo</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-10-22T14:47:42-06:00" title="Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 14:47">Tue, 10/22/2019 - 14:47</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/nan_goodman_bw_2018_0.png?h=3a9ec829&amp;itok=Xz-bqXxN" width="1200" height="800" alt="Professor Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/148" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/nan_goodman_bw_2018_1.png?itok=A_ZlIUBQ" width="750" height="778" alt="Professor Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> Earlier this month, Professor Nan&nbsp;Goodman delivered a talk titled “Hayonian Epistemology and the Tripartite Jewish God in the Age of Locke” at a <a href="http://www.unsa.ba/index.php/en/događaji/nehemiah-hiyya-ben-moses-hayyun-and-challenges-sabbatean-leadership-after-1676-conference" rel="nofollow">conference on Nehemiah Hiyya Hayon</a> at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.&nbsp;<p>&nbsp;</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:47:42 +0000 Anonymous 1215 at /jewishstudies Meet the New Director of the Program in Jewish Studies; Meghan Perea Promoted in Arts & Sciences /jewishstudies/2019/07/02/meet-new-director-program-jewish-studies-meghan-perea-promoted-arts-sciences <span>Meet the New Director of the Program in Jewish Studies; Meghan Perea Promoted in Arts &amp; Sciences</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-07-02T10:31:19-06:00" title="Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - 10:31">Tue, 07/02/2019 - 10:31</time> </span> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/108" hreflang="en">Beverly Weber</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/78" hreflang="en">Elias Sacks</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/189" hreflang="en">Meghan Perea</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>We are excited to announce the appointment of&nbsp;<strong>Professor Elias Sacks</strong>&nbsp;as the new Director of the Program in Jewish Studies. Professor Sacks succeeds&nbsp;<strong>Professor Nan Goodman</strong>, who will continue to serve as a faculty member with the Program in Jewish Studies and Department of English. This fall, Professor Sacks will be on sabbatical and will begin his directorship on January 1, 2020. During his sabbatical,&nbsp;<strong>Professor Beverly Weber</strong>&nbsp;will serve as the Interim Director for the Program in Jewish Studies beginning July 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019.</p><p>We're also pleased to announce that&nbsp;<strong>Meghan Perea</strong>, Executive Manager of the Program in Jewish Studies, has received a promotion within the College of Arts &amp; Sciences at CU Boulder.</p><h3 class="text-align-center">Please join us in congratulating Professor Sacks, Professor Weber, and Meghan Perea on their new appointments! Thank you, Professor Goodman, for your work as the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies!</h3><p class="text-align-center"><em>Continue reading to learn more about these changes in Jewish Studies!</em></p><hr><h3> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/nan_goodman_bw_2018_0.png?itok=GfNRzQPQ" width="750" height="778" alt="Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> <strong><a href="/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/faculty/nan-goodman" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Professor Nan Goodman</a></strong></h3><p><em><strong>Outgoing Director of the Program in Jewish Studies</strong></em></p><p>To our students, colleagues, program and library staff, College administrators, community members, and donors, I write with a fond farewell.&nbsp;It has been an honor and privilege serving as Director of the Program in Jewish Studies these last four years.&nbsp;My term as Director came to an end on June 30, 2019, and I am stepping down in order to devote more time to my research and writing. There can be no question, however, that my all of my future endeavors, scholarly and pedagogical, will be informed by everything I have learned as Director of this energetic, innovative, and intellectually diverse program.&nbsp;In my Jewish Studies classrooms, I have had the good fortune to teach some of the most curious students of my career; I have enjoyed and benefited from a myriad of conversations with my colleagues on topics ranging from Jewish philosophy to music; I have expanded my knowledge of the Jewish experience in America by immersing myself in our growing archival collections; I have made lasting friendships with and witnessed an outpouring of generosity from a variety of community members; and I’ve had the pleasure of working with two of the most talented and dedicated staff members I’ve ever known.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>I am also happy to say, I have added value to this gem of a program. I leave the program in a stronger place, having launched a number of initiatives that have expanded our public education programming and increased our fundraising to unprecedented levels.&nbsp;I have also overseen three new hires for faculty members whose research areas and class offerings have enriched our curriculum, and I have worked diligently on existing faculty retention and support at the same time.&nbsp;I have broadened the interdisciplinary reach of an already interdisciplinary program, bringing English and Dance graduate students as well as a faculty collaboration with Women and Gender Studies into the mix, and I have doubled down on our efforts to recruit more students into our newly user friendly major and minor tracks.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>To our wonderful incoming Director, Eli Sacks, whose term officially starts in January 2020, and Interim Director, Beverly Weber, who will lead the Program in Fall 2019, I wish you the best of luck and am so glad you will be at the helm.&nbsp;Finally, I know Beverly and Eli join me in thanking Meghan Perea, whose service to PJS has been incomparable.&nbsp;We all wish her well in her new administrative staff position in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Felicidades and parabéns!&nbsp;</p><p>Nan Goodman</p><hr><h3> <div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/weber_2015.png?itok=oOafsJKA" width="750" height="729" alt="Beverly Weber"> </div> </div> <strong><a href="/jewishstudies/people/faculty/beverly-weber" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Professor Beverly Weber</a></strong></h3><p><em><strong>Interim Director for the Program in Jewish Studies, July 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019</strong></em></p><p>Professor Weber is Associate Professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies, and joined PJS in 2014. For the last two years she has been privileged to serve as the Associate Director of Graduate Studies. She teaches courses on racisms in Europe after 1970, Holocaust memory, film, and refugee art and activism. She is currently writing a book manuscript,&nbsp;Decolonizing Hospitality, on refuge and sanctuary in contemporary German culture. Her first book,&nbsp;Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe: Islam in German Culture, examines racist and Islamophobic responses to gender violence in German politics and news media, as well as Muslim women’s challenges to gender violence and racism in literature, art, and popular media. Her co-authored book (with Maria Stehle) entitled&nbsp;Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary European Cinema&nbsp;will appear in early 2020; it explores intimate friendships and relationships in films about those living extremely precarious lives - particularly refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.</p><div class="ucb-box ucb-box-title-hidden ucb-box-alignment-none ucb-box-style-fill ucb-box-theme-lightgray"> <div class="ucb-box-inner"> <div class="ucb-box-title"></div> <div class="ucb-box-content">"I am honored to be stepping in as interim director in the fall. This is a wonderful opportunity to serve a program that has provided such an inspiring and supportive intellectual community, and that I believe is a model for interdisciplinary thinking and learning. It is daunting, of course, to serve as a transitional point between Nan's impressive work and accomplishments and what will be an equally exciting time for Jewish Studies under Eli's directorship."</div> </div> </div><p class="text-align-center">Professor Weber will resume her duties as the Graduate Director of the Program in Jewish Studies Spring 2020.</p><p class="text-align-center"><em>Please contact&nbsp;<a href="/jewishstudies/people/faculty/beverly-weber" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Professor Beverly Weber&nbsp;</a>or&nbsp;<a href="mailto:CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu</a>&nbsp;with any Jewish Studies related inquiries you may have between July 1, </em><em>2019</em><em> and December 31, 2019.</em></p><hr><h3> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/sacks_square_4.jpeg?itok=ls6l0OpW" width="750" height="750" alt="Elias Sacks"> </div> </div> <strong><a href="/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/faculty/elias-sacks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Professor Elias Sacks</a></strong></h3><p><em><strong>New Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, Starting January 1, 2020</strong></em></p><p>Elias Sacks, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, will become Director of the Program in Jewish Studies in January 2020. His research and teaching focus on Jewish thought, Jewish-Christian relations, philosophy of religion, religion and politics, and religious ethics, with a particular interest in the modern period. He is the author of&nbsp;Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism&nbsp;(Indiana University Press, 2017), as well as articles on medieval and modern thinkers such as Moses Maimonides, Baruch Spinoza, Nachman Krochmal, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Jacob Taubes. Sacks also published some of the first English translations of Moses Mendelssohn’s Hebrew writings in&nbsp;Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible&nbsp;(Brandeis University Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He sits on the board of the Society of Jewish Ethics and is a past president of the Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Region of the American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature, and since joining the in 2012, he has served as Associate Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, Associate Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, and a member of the Center for Humanities and the Arts steering committee.</p><div class="ucb-box ucb-box-title-hidden ucb-box-alignment-none ucb-box-style-fill ucb-box-theme-lightgray"> <div class="ucb-box-inner"> <div class="ucb-box-title"></div> <div class="ucb-box-content">"I’m humbled and excited to take over as Director of Jewish Studies because I believe that what we do in this program stands at the heart of what a public university can and must do in the twenty-first century. By fostering the interdisciplinary exploration of global Jewish culture, history, religion, and thought, we provide students with the skills to become critical thinkers and engaged global citizens; we empower faculty to pose new questions and generate new knowledge; and we engage the broader public to wrestle with ethical, political, and religious questions central to contemporary life. I am deeply grateful for the leadership of my predecessors, Nan Goodman and David Shneer, and I’m thrilled that Beverly Weber will be serving as interim director this fall."</div> </div> </div><p class="text-align-center"><em>While Professor Sacks will be working closely with our community during the Fall 2019 semester, he will be on sabbatical. Please contact&nbsp;<a href="/jewishstudies/people/faculty/beverly-weber" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Professor Beverly Weber&nbsp;</a>or&nbsp;<a href="mailto:CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu</a>&nbsp;with any Jewish Studies related inquiries you may have before January 1, 2020.</em></p><hr><h3> <div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/perea_meghan_square_bw.jpeg?itok=OS1mIQc-" width="750" height="750" alt="Meghan Perea"> </div> </div> <strong><a href="/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/staff/meghan-perea" id="meghan" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Meghan Perea</a></strong></h3><p><em><strong>Outgoing Executive Manager with the Program in Jewish Studies</strong></em></p><p>I am delighted to announce that I have received a promotion in the College of Arts and Sciences and will be taking a lead administrative position in CU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. This is an advancement opportunity in which I will be learning new professional skills in leadership and management.</p><p>I am comfortable making this transition in my career at this time because I am confident that I am leaving Jewish Studies in a place of strength. I am so proud of all we have accomplished over the seven years I have worked in the program, and I am equally excited about what is to come. Indeed, this is a bittersweet moment for me. I cannot express the profound sense of gratitude and love I feel for the Program in Jewish Studies, our faculty and staff, our incredible students, and our wonderful community. Jewish Studies has been my home for nearly a decade. Having been both student and staff, I feel strongly that Jewish Studies is a model for what an academic unit can be at CU. I want to thank you all for everything you have done to make my time here in PJS truly wonderful. Students, working with you has been my favorite part of the job. It has meant the world to me to learn alongside such engaged, intelligent, and compassionate people. To our community members, PJS would not be possible without you. Thank you for all you do for PJS faculty, students, and staff.</p><p>I especially want to thank Professor Nan Goodman and Professor David Shneer, who were the two wonderful directors during my time in PJS. Thank you both for your inspired leadership.</p><p>I deeply regret that I will not have the chance to continue to work with Professor Beverly Weber and Professor Elias Sacks as they take over the directorship of the program. Having worked with them both on many projects over the years, there is no doubt in my mind that PJS is heading in exciting directions. They are both administratively savvy, care deeply about the success of PJS, have creative ideas about where PJS can go next, and are delightful colleagues to boot! With Professor Weber and Professor Sacks at the helm and Vanessa Frye, Communications and Outreach Administrator, holding down the fort (who, I must add, is one of the most talented, creative, and compassionate staff members I have ever worked with), I am confident that PJS will continue to thrive. I’m also grateful to Michelle Gaffga, Director of Development in CU Advancement, and her team, and Michael Lynn, Academic Advisor for Jewish Studies, who are incredible colleagues and will continue to be amazing resources for Jewish Studies’ community and students. Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of them with questions.</p><p>I will have a two-month, staged transition beginning July 1, 2019, so that I may work part-time in PJS to assist with finding and training my replacement and keeping the ball rolling during the transition. My official last day will be August 30, 2019. Please understand that during this transition period, I may be slower to respond to emails and requests.</p><p>And finally, please know, I will not be going far! I will still be in the College of Arts and Sciences at CU, and I look forward to participating with the Program in Jewish Studies as a staff collaborator and active community member.</p><p>Thank you, to this Jewish Studies community, for everything.</p><p>Meghan</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:31:19 +0000 Anonymous 1195 at /jewishstudies Professor Nan Goodman Receives 2019 Excellence Award /jewishstudies/2019/03/11/professor-nan-goodman-receives-2019-excellence-award <span>Professor Nan Goodman Receives 2019 Excellence Award</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-03-11T14:26:48-06:00" title="Monday, March 11, 2019 - 14:26">Mon, 03/11/2019 - 14:26</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/nan_goodman_bw_2018.png?h=5dd83788&amp;itok=6eCAcPPL" width="1200" height="800" alt="Professor Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/148" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/nan_goodman_bw_2018.png?itok=qcohbu9c" width="750" height="778" alt="Professor Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> The Program in Jewish Studies is excited to announce that <a href="/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/faculty/nan-goodman" rel="nofollow">Nan Goodman</a>, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies, has been awarded a <strong><a href="/bfa/2019/02/25/2019-excellence-award-winners-announced" rel="nofollow">Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence Award</a></strong> in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work.<p>This award celebrates faculty contributions of the highest quality, focusing on achievements&nbsp;with an interdisciplinary emphasis or the culmination of long-term achievement.&nbsp;</p><h3 class="text-align-center"><em><strong>Congratulations, Professor Goodman!</strong></em></h3><p class="text-align-center"><a class="ucb-link-button ucb-link-button-blue ucb-link-button-default ucb-link-button-regular" href="/bfa/2019/02/25/2019-excellence-award-winners-announced" rel="nofollow"> <span class="ucb-link-button-contents"> 2019 Excellence Award Winners </span> </a> </p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:26:48 +0000 Anonymous 1173 at /jewishstudies Professor Nan Goodman Publishes a New Book, "The Puritan Cosmopolis" /jewishstudies/2018/02/16/professor-nan-goodman-publishes-new-book-puritan-cosmopolis <span>Professor Nan Goodman Publishes a New Book, "The Puritan Cosmopolis"</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2018-02-16T11:37:42-07:00" title="Friday, February 16, 2018 - 11:37">Fri, 02/16/2018 - 11:37</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/nan_goodman.jpg?h=bd815f4b&amp;itok=sRou-a6i" width="1200" height="800" alt="Professor Nan Goodman, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies. Headshot."> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/148" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>We are pleased to announce&nbsp;<a href="http://www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/faculty/nan-goodman" rel="nofollow">Professor</a>&nbsp;<a href="/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/faculty/nan-goodman" rel="nofollow">Nan Goodman</a>, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies, recently published her newest book, <em>The Puritan Cosmopolis:&nbsp;The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination</em>. The&nbsp;book is now avaliable for purchase online from <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-puritan-cosmopolis-9780190642822?q=nan%20goodman&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=us#" rel="nofollow">Oxford University Press</a>. Congratulations, Professor Goodman!</p><div class="ucb-box ucb-box-title-hidden ucb-box-alignment-none ucb-box-style-fill ucb-box-theme-lightgray"> <div class="ucb-box-inner"> <div class="ucb-box-title"></div> <div class="ucb-box-content"><h3>Description of <em>The Puritan Cosmopolis</em></h3><p> </p><div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/9780190642822.jpeg?itok=BXPLzyqF" width="750" height="1140" alt="&quot;The Puritan Cosmopolis&quot; Book Cover"> </div> </div> <em>The Puritan Cosmopolis</em>&nbsp;traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also thinking in terms that went beyond feeling affiliated with people in remote places, or what cosmopolitan theorists call "attachment at a distance." In this way Puritan writers and readers were not simply learning about others, but also cultivating an awareness of themselves as ethically related to people all around the world. Such thought experiments originated and advanced through the law, specifically the law of nations, a precursor to international law and an inspiration for much of the imagination and literary expression of cosmopolitanism among the Puritans.&nbsp;<em>The Puritan Cosmopolis</em>&nbsp;shows that by internalizing the legal theories that pertained to the world writ large, the Puritans were able to experiment with concepts of extended obligation, re-conceptualize war, contemplate new ways of cultivating peace, and rewrite the very meaning of Puritan living. Through a detailed consideration of Puritan legal thought, Goodman provides an unexpected link between the Puritans, Jews, and Ottomans in the early modern world and reveals how the Puritan legal and literary past relates to present concerns about globalism and cosmopolitanism.</div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:37:42 +0000 Anonymous 966 at /jewishstudies Nan Goodman Publishes Article on Sabbatai Sevi /jewishstudies/2017/09/26/nan-goodman-publishes-article-sabbatai-sevi <span>Nan Goodman Publishes Article on Sabbatai Sevi</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-09-26T12:57:59-06:00" title="Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 12:57">Tue, 09/26/2017 - 12:57</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/pastedgraphic-2.jpg?h=988a3089&amp;itok=Il-c7ea9" width="1200" height="800" alt="American Literature and the New Puritan Studies"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/148" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/pastedgraphic-2.jpg?itok=pldPgaNR" width="750" height="1138" alt="American Literature and the New Puritan Studies"> </div> </div> <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/faculty/nan-goodman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nan Goodman</a>, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather’s&nbsp;<i>The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation,</i>” in&nbsp;<em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Literature-New-Puritan-Studies/dp/1107101883" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Approaches to Puritan Studies</a></em>, ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge&nbsp;University Press.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:57:59 +0000 Anonymous 890 at /jewishstudies Director Nan Goodman Interviewed for Intermountain Jewish News /jewishstudies/2017/09/06/director-nan-goodman-interviewed-intermountain-jewish-news <span>Director Nan Goodman Interviewed for Intermountain Jewish News</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-09-06T11:01:30-06:00" title="Wednesday, September 6, 2017 - 11:01">Wed, 09/06/2017 - 11:01</time> </span> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/148" hreflang="en">News</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/use_this_square_-nan_goodman_copy_3.jpeg?itok=1Iq7Fk8v" width="750" height="750" alt="Director Nan Goodman, Program in Jewish Studies"> </div> </div> Recently, Dr. Nan Goodman was interviewed by Chris Leppek from Intermountain Jewish News, a weekly newspaper&nbsp;that covers events in Colorado and surrounding states as well as&nbsp;Israel and Jewish communities around the world. The article, titled "Literature meets law,"&nbsp;discusses how Dr. Goodman came into her role as the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at CU Boulder. It also focuses on how she uniquely intersects literature and law, "They share, among other things, the fact that they're constructed on the basis of language, that they operate often within prescribed constraints, and that they're both involved in mixing imagination and the normative, what is and what should be and what could be."<p>Like the serendipitous moments that have taken place in the course of her research and led&nbsp;her to become a Jewish Studies scholar, she feels that she is meant to be here. "I really have a tremendous passion for it," she says. "I'm very grateful that I was given this opportunity. It's been like <em>beshert</em>."</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p class="text-align-center"><a class="ucb-link-button ucb-link-button-gold ucb-link-button-default ucb-link-button-regular" href="http://www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies/node/868/attachment" rel="nofollow"> <span class="ucb-link-button-contents"> <i class="fa-regular fa-file-pdf">&nbsp;</i> Read the Full Article Here </span> </a> </p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:01:30 +0000 Anonymous 866 at /jewishstudies Director Nan Goodman publishes article on Sabbatai Sevi /jewishstudies/2017/01/11/director-nan-goodman-publishes-article-sabbatai-sevi <span>Director Nan Goodman publishes article on Sabbatai Sevi</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-01-11T10:43:50-07:00" title="Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 10:43">Wed, 01/11/2017 - 10:43</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/use_this_square_-nan_goodman_copy_2.jpeg?h=9a7595ea&amp;itok=B6USOZXo" width="1200" height="800" alt="Director Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-left image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/use_this_square_-nan_goodman_copy_2.jpeg?itok=AHTMA8sg" width="750" height="750" alt="Director Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/faculty/nan-goodman" rel="nofollow">Nan Goodman</a>, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, publishes "Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather’s <em>The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation,</em>” in&nbsp;<em>New Approaches to Puritan Studies</em>, ed. Bryce Traister, Cambridge&nbsp;University Press.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:43:50 +0000 Anonymous 738 at /jewishstudies End of the Year Letter from Director Nan Goodman /jewishstudies/2016/05/31/end-year-letter-director-nan-goodman <span>End of the Year Letter from Director Nan Goodman</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-05-31T13:30:28-06:00" title="Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 13:30">Tue, 05/31/2016 - 13:30</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/jewishstudies/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/use_this_-nan_goodman_0.jpg?h=e1a1214d&amp;itok=SezSYs4b" width="1200" height="800" alt="Nan Goodman"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">Faculty</a> <a href="/jewishstudies/taxonomy/term/81" hreflang="en">Nan Goodman</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><div>In Act I, Scene 1 of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play, “You Can’t Take It With You,” the character known as Grandpa, the patriarch of the eccentric Vanderhof family, returns home after attending the graduation ceremony at Columbia University, which he does every year for the sheer fun of it. &nbsp;“Well sir, you should have been there,” he announces. &nbsp;“That’s all I can say—you should have been there.”</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Allow me to echo Grandpa’s words. &nbsp;The Program in Jewish Studies graduated 14 undergraduates, one Master’s student, and our very first PhD student on May 6, 2016, and “you should have been there.” Our six graduating majors discussed their capstone projects, which ranged from the creation of original books of meditation and tales to a series of photographs of repurposed Jewish building sites to an original musical composition for the psalms to an original radio play. &nbsp;&nbsp;Our six graduating minors were also celebrated and, like our majors, are going on to do amazing things next year. &nbsp;Our MA student, Kathryn Huether, whose thesis, “Hearing the Holocaust,” blended her interests in music and Jewish Studies will be pursuing a PhD in musicology next year and our PhD student, Nicholas Underwood, whose dissertation was on Yiddish culture in interwar Paris, will be teaching history next year in California.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Our students garnered many prizes, and the ceremony that revolved around them made their accomplishments clear. &nbsp;It also made clear the reciprocity of respect and admiration that exists between our students and our faculty and with family, friends, and community members in attendance, it helped to reinforce the phenomenal warmth and energy that emanates from the people who make up the Program in Jewish Studies at CU. &nbsp;It was a wonderful way to end a wonderful year. &nbsp;And “that’s all I can say.”</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Best wishes for a relaxing and productive summer.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><div></div><div><a href="/jewishstudies/faculty-and-staff/faculty/nan-goodman" rel="nofollow">Nan Goodman</a>, PhD, JD</div><div>Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English</div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Tue, 31 May 2016 19:30:28 +0000 Anonymous 686 at /jewishstudies