FACULTY
Justin Cammy
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature
Co–Director of the Program in Jewish Studies
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Director of Middle East Studies
Justin Cammy is Director of the Program in Middle East Studies (2011-2013) and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature. He has a B.A. in Middle East Studies from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. At Smith, he regularly teaches courses on the history of Zionism and Israeli literature and culture.
Professor Cammy first visited the Middle East in 1988, and has since returned more than two dozen times to live, work, study, and research. In 2007 he spent seven months as a visiting scholar at the Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University. In summer 2011 he co-directed Smith's inaugural Global Engagement Seminar in Jerusalem, a course that combined an academic seminar on the religious history and contested politics of Jerusalem with a two month student internship. The course will be taught again in summer 2012. He has also traveled extensively in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Morocco.
As the study abroad adviser for the Program in Jewish Studies, Professor Cammy has visited all of the Smith-approved programs for study in Israel. Students who are considering spending a semester, year, or summer studying in Israel are invited to be in touch with him for more information.
Professor Cammy welcomes proposals from students interested in pursuing special studies in his areas of specialization.
In 2006, Justin Cammy was awarded the Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Smith.
