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 among others at Indiana University and later Jewish studies at the University of Oxford.

His research includes in the American South, South America, Spain, and North Africa with a focus on religion and race between Jews, Christians, and Muslims     .

Duncan Hart's  most recent books are:
* Jews and the Arab World: Intertwined Legacies. 2020. Winner 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
* Judaism. 2015

He is a former University Vice-President, Dean of Academic Affairs, and department chair, having taught anthropology at Georgia State University, the National University of Colombia, the University of the Andes in Bogotá, and InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico. He also has worked in South America with UNICEF, the Ford Foundation and other international agencies. He has 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.

He has been an invited lecturer at

* 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