Ron Duncan Hart

Ron Duncan Hart is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. Indiana University) with postdoctoral work in Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He has awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, and New Mexico Jewish Historical Society among others. Duncan Hart has done research on Sephardic traditions in Spain, North Africa, and South America with special attention to...See more

Ron Duncan Hart is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. Indiana University) with postdoctoral work in Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He has awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, and New Mexico Jewish Historical Society among others. Duncan Hart has done research on Sephardic traditions in Spain, North Africa, and South America with special attention to the Andalusian exchange among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He is former Dean of Academic Affairs at InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico. He was Project Director in Latin America with the Ford Foundation, the International Development Research Centre of Canada, and UNICEF. He is a former Research Associate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. He served a number of years as editor of HaLapid, the journal of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. He is author of several books on religion, cultural history and social change, including Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition and New World Identities (author/editor), and historical consultant for the exhibition of the same name at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe (2016). Fractured Faiths won the Gold Medal for the best book on a religious topic in 2018. Other books include Judaism, Sephardic Jews: History, Religion and People, and Jews and the Arab World. He has been an invited lecturer on Jewish life and culture for the New Mexico History Museum (Santa Fe), Neustadt Lecture (Oklahoma City University), the National Labor Relations Board (Washington, D.C.), and the Schlezinger Annual Lecture (Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase, Maryland), University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia, University of Xinjiang, Urumchi, China among other venues. See less