Julia R. Lieberman, Associate Professor of Spanish and International Studies, was awarded her doctoral degree in 1989 at Yale University. Dr. Lieberman's areas of specialization and professional interests include Spanish Peninsular Medieval and Golden Age Literature, Sephardic Studies and contemporary Israeli culture. Her doctoral dissertation: El teatro alegórico de Miguel (Daniel Leví) de Barrios was published in 1996 by Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. She has published articles on the Sephardic communities of Amsterdam, Hamburg and Leghorn and has co-authored a text-book: Los estudios sefardíes para estudiantes de español (Pegasus Press, 2007). In the spring term 2008, she will be a Scholar-in-Residence at The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusets, where she will work on a book project on children, women and the family among the Western Sephardim in the early modern period.