Laurence Roth, professor and co-chair of 做厙TVs Department of , has been named to the 2020-21 class of fellows in the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
is the Degenstein professor of English and the founder and director of the program at 做厙TV.
During his in-residence fellowship at the Katz Center, Roth will pursue research on the fellowships theme of Americas Jewish Questions.
The 202021 theme was born in part as a result of an impulse to confront the assumptions that have governed perceptions of the American Jewish experience, including the idea that the history of Jews in the United States is unique, marked by success and progress in contrast to the narrative sweep of European Jewish history.
Roth earned his bachelors degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his masters degree and doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles.
