Ross Brann
American religion historian
- University of California, Berkeley
- New York University
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Cornell University
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1993)
- Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (2023, 2023)
Ross Brann is an American religion historian, currently the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell University.[1][2]
Published works
- The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
- Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain (Princeton University Press, 2002).
- Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad and the Tropes of Exceptionalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
- Moses Maimonides: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Awards
- 1992: National Jewish Book Award in the Sephardic Studies category for The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain[3]
Further reading
- "Review: The Compunctious Hebrew Poet" (Indiana University Press, May 1992)[4]
References
- ^ "Ross Brann". cornell.edu. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ^ "Dr. Ross Brann". wamc.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
- ^ HAMORI, ANDRAS (1992). Brann, Ross (ed.). "The Compunctious Hebrew Poet". Prooftexts. 12 (2): 192–200. ISSN 0272-9601. JSTOR 20689336.
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