Ron Duncan Hart

Ron Duncan Hart, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist from Indiana University, an author and filmmaker. He did postdoctoral work on Jewish history at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford. He is Director of the Institute for Tolerance Studies, and former President of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico.

Duncan Hart studied with David Bidney, Robert Chazan, Jeremy Cohen, and John Messenger and others at Indiana University and later Jewish studies at the University of Oxford on issues of Judaism and culture .

His research includes  the American South, South America, Spain, and North Africa with a focus on issues of racism, antisemitism, and religious exclusivism  between Jews, Christians, and Muslims .

Duncan Hart's recent  books Jewish life are:
* Jews and the Arab World: Intertwined Legacies. 2020. Best Book Award
* Crypto-Jews: The Long Journey 2020. 
* Sephardic Jews: History, Religion and People. 2016. Finalist Best Book Award.
* Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition and New World Identities 2016.   Best Book Award.

He is a past University Vice-President, Dean of Academic Affairs, and department chair, having taught anthropology at Georgia State University, the University of the Andes in Bogotá, and InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico. He also worked in South America with UNICEF, the Ford Foundation and other international agencies. He has received awards from the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Fulbright among others.

His invited lecturerships include:

*Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University

* Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies

* Neustadt Lecturer on Judaic Studies (Oklahoma City University)
* Schlezinger Lecturer on Jewish legal history (Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase)
* National Labor Relations Board (US)
* Tulane University
* Berry College
* Xinjiang University (Urumqi, China)
* National University (Bogotá, Colombia) among others.

Photo of Ron Duncan Hart Courtesy of Cinewest