Felicia Waldman (PhD 2001) is associate professor at the Center for Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. She coordinates the Center and the Goldstein Goren MA program in Hebrew Culture and Civilization. She is the editor of the Center’s academic journal Studia Hebraica. She is also a long-standing member of several international academic associations, visiting professor at the State University of Milan, Paul Valery University of Montpellier and “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, and guest professor at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute of Bucharest. Her expertise covers Jewish mysticism, the Romanian Jewish history and heritage and Holocaust education. She has published 5 books, co-edited 3 volumes and wrote over 50 articles on these topics. During the last 23 years she coordinated 12 international research projects and was invited to deliver papers at over 100 international conferences. She is the co-author of Tales and Traces of Sephardic Bucharest (Noi Media Print, Bucharest, 2016), which deals with the history of the Ottoman Sephardim who moved to the Romanian Principalities.

Prof. Dr. Roddy is a full professor in the Humanities at Creighton University, a Jesuit liberal arts institution located in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. In 1994-1995 he was a Fulbright scholar in Romania (1994-1995). Since 2003, he has been a Faculty Associate and Visiting Professor at the Jewish studies center in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest, teaching courses in Biblical Archaeology and Ancient Jewish History. From 1996-2016, he was Co-director and Area Supervisor for the Bethsaida Archaeology Project, at the foot of the Golan Heights.  He has published several books and nearly fifty peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and archaeological reports on a variety of topics, mostly related to early Jewish and early Christian history, literature, society, archaeology, and culture.