Adam Stern
German and Jewish Studies
Associate Professor
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Office Number: 856 Van Hise Hall
Biography
Languages: German, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic
Research/Language Interests: continental philosophy, Jewish thought, race and religion, secularism, political theology, settler colonialism, non-extractive reading
About: Adam Stern’s first book, Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy, was published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2021. He is currently working on a synthetic genealogy of the Jewish settler. He regularly teaches courses at the intersection of philosophy and religion.
Affiliated Departments: Religious Studies Program, Middle East Studies Program, European Studies Program
Education:
Harvard University, Ph.D. Study of Religion
The University of Chicago, A.M. Religious Studies
Columbia University, B.A. Comparative Literature