Our Professor Podcast
Micah Sander and Carter Greene interview Brooklyn College’s history professors to give students insight into their specialties, how they got where they are, and their personal interests.
Our Professor Podcast
Graffiti, Bread, and 70s Punk: Professor Karen Stern
Carter had an engaging talk with Professor Karen Stern and to be honest, Micah kind of dropped the ball here
Professor Karen Stern is an award-winning author who draws from fields of archaeology, anthropology, history and religion to research the daily lives and material cultures of Jews of the ancient Mediterranean, Arabia and Mesopotamia. She earned an A.B. in Classics at Dartmouth College, Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Brown University and has conducted field research in Greece, the Middle East and North Africa with grants, fellowships and residencies from National Endowment for the Humanities, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Getty Villa.
She is the author of Inscribing Devotion and Death: Archaeological Evidence for Jewish Populations of North Africa, Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity, which won a 2020 Schnitzer Book Award, and co-editor of With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal: Essays on Relationships in the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Saul M. Olyan. The Daily Beast, Atlas Obscura, NPR, and The Guardian have all featured her work and her current book project considers Jewish history through the senses.
Artwork by Layal Suliaman
Music by Nate Sander