Martin D. Yaffe
University of North Texas
Philosophy and Religion
(940) 565-2266
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Education

PhD, Claremont Graduate University, 1969.
Major: Philosophy
Dissertation Title: The 'New Thinking' of Franz Rosenzweig
BA, University of Toronto, 1963.
Major: Honours Philosophy and History

Professional Positions

Uncategorized
Professor, University of North Texas. (1998 – Present).
Associate Professor, University of North Texas. (1990 – 1998).
Assistant Professor (Tenure granted, 1971), University of North Texas. (1968 – 1990).
Research Director, Institute for Jewish Studies, Dallas, Texas. (1972 – 1983).
Library Acquisitions, University of North Texas. (1968 – 1979).
Adjunct Lecturer in Contemporary Jewish Thought, Southern Methodist University. (1978 – 1978).
Lecturer in Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel. (1971 – 1972).

Professional Memberships

Member, Academy for Jewish Philosophy. (Present).

President, Southwest Region, 1989-90, American Academy of Religion. (Present).

Member, American Political Science Association. (Present).

Member, Association for Jewish Studies. (Present).

Member, International Hobbes Society. (Present).

Member, National Association of Professors of Hebrew. (Present).

Member, National Association of Scholars. (Present).

Member, North American Spinoza Society. (Present).

Member, North Texas [Regional] Philosophy Association. (Present).

Member, Society for the Study of Ancient Greek Political Thought. (Present).

Member, Society for the Study of the History of Philosophy. (Present).

Member, Southwestern Philosophical Society. (Present).

President - Southwest Region, American Academy of Religion. (1989 – 1990).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
PHIL 1050, Introduction to Philosophy, 1 course.
PHIL 2310, Introduction to Ancient Philosophy, 2 courses.
PHIL 2330, Introduction to Modern Philosophy, 1 course.
PHIL 3120, Social and Political Philosophy, 10 courses.
PHIL 3310, Ancient Greek Philosophy, 14 courses.
PHIL 3320, Medieval Philosophy, 7 courses.
PHIL 3330, Modern Philosophy, 1 course.
PHIL 3510, Hebrew Bible, 3 courses.
PHIL 3540, Judaism and Philosophy, 5 courses.
PHIL 3570, Hebrew Bible, 4 courses.
PHIL 3575, Judaic Religion and Philosophy, 4 courses.
PHIL 4400, Metaphysics, 13 courses.
PHIL 4900, Special Problems, 12 courses.
PHIL 4910, Special Problems, 3 courses.
PHIL 4951, Honors College Capstone Thesis, 4 courses.
PHIL 5100, Ancient Philosophy, 2 courses.
PHIL 5200, Modern Philosophy, 8 courses.
PHIL 5250, Topics in the History of Philosophy, 1 course.
PHIL 5335, Topics in Modern Philosophy, 2 courses.
PHIL 5900, Special Problems, 19 courses.
PHIL 5910, Special Problems, 4 courses.
PHIL 5950, Master's Thesis, 7 courses.
PHIL 5960, Seminar in Problems of Philosophy, 1 course.
PHIL 6150, Metaphysics, 1 course.
PHIL 6350, Metaphysics, 2 courses.
PHIL 6900, Special Problems, 19 courses.
PHIL 6910, Special Problems, 5 courses.
PHIL 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 13 courses.

Directed Student Learning

Dissertation Committee Member, Philosophy and Religion. (March 15, 2019 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Political Science. (April 15, 2014 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Philosophy and Religion. (May 15, 2019).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book
Ruderman, R. S., Yaffe, M. D. (2014). Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930's. http://www.amazon.com/Reorientation-Strauss-Recovering-Political-Philosophy/dp/1137374233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409073127&sr=8-1&keywords=reorientation+leo+strauss
Yaffe, M. D. (2012). Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn.
Yaffe, M. D. (2011). The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns.
Yaffe, M. D. (2008). 5. Emil Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew.
Yaffe, M. D. (2004). Theologico-Political Treatise [1670]. Translated from the Latin, retaining Spinoza's original Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Syriac citations, with Glossary, Indexes, and Interpretive Essay. Focus Philosophical Library..
Yaffe, M. D. (2001). Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader.
Yaffe, M. D. (1997). Shylock and the Jewish Question.
Yaffe, M. D. (1988). Saint Thomas Aquinas. The Literal Exposition on the Book of Job: A Scriptural Commentary concerning Providence. Translated by Anthony Damico. Interpretive Essay and Notes by Martin D. Yaffe.
Book Chapter
Yaffe, M. D., Whittrock, J., Polt, R. (2016). "Anthropogenic Effects' in Genesis 1-11 and Francis Bacon". Rethinking Nature in the Anthropocene.
Yaffe, M. D. (2016). "Mendelssohn" Leo Strauss y otros companeros de Platon.
Yaffe, M. D. (2012). "Philosophy, Jewish Thought, and the American Setting in my Work." In Jewish Philosophy: Perspectives and Retrospectives..
Yaffe, M. D. (2011). "Introduction" to The Companionship of Books: Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns.
Yaffe, M. D. (2011). "Thomas Aquinas on the Book of Job," in The Fruits of Friendship: Seven Essays in Honor of Laurence Berns, ed. Joseph P. Cohem.
Yaffe, M. D. (2008). "Historicism and Revelation in Emil Fackenheim's Self-Distancing from Leo Strauss." In Emil Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew.
Yaffe, M. D. (2008). "Reason and Feeling in Hans Jonas's Existential Biology, Arne Naess's Deep Ecology, and Spinoza's Ethics." In Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of Hans Jonas.
Yaffe, M. D. (2004). 20. "Natural Law in Maimonides?" In Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition.
Yaffe, M. D. (2004). 21. "Bible Translation and the Rhetoric of Theologico-Political Liberalism: The Case of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670)." In Similarity and Difference in Translation..
Yaffe, M. D. (2002). "Theological-Political Implications of Ellis Rivkin's Unity Principle." In Structural Analysis: The Historiographic Method of Ellis Rivkin..
Yaffe, M. D. (1999). "Body and the Body Politic in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise." In Piety, Peace, and the Freedom to Philosophize, Piety, and Peace.
Yaffe, M. D. (1997). "Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise—A First Inside Look." In Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy.
Yaffe, M. D. (1995). "An Unsung Appreciation of the Musical-Erotic in Mozart's Don Giovanni: Hermann Cohen's Nod Toward Kierkegaard's Either/Or." In International Kierkegaard Commentary on Either/Or I.
Yaffe, M. D. (1991). "Autonomy, Community, Authority: Hermann Cohen, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss." In Autonomy and Judaism: The Individual and Community in Jewish Philosophical Thought..
Book Review
Green, K. H., Yaffe, M. D. (2014). Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides. 161-163. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Yaffe, M. D. (2003). The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, by Leon R. Kass (New York: Free Press, 2003).
Yaffe, M. D. (2002). 38. Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932), trans. Michael Zank (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2002).
Yaffe, M. D. (1998). Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity, by Steven B. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Yaffe, M. D. (1997). Aquinas and the Jews, by John Y.B. Hood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).
Yaffe, M. D. (1992). The Legacy of Hermann Cohen, by William Kluback (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989).
Yaffe, M. D. (1991). The Book of Theodicy: Translation and Commentary on the Book of Job, by Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi, trans. Lenn E. Goodman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).
Yaffe, M. D. (1990). Beyond the Secular Mind: A Judaic Response to the Problems of Modernity, by Paul Eidelberg (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989).
Yaffe, M. D. (1990). Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age, by Jerry Weinberger (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985).
Yaffe, M. D. (1989). Nietzsche's Teaching, by Laurence Lampert (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
Yaffe, M. D. (1989). The Judaic State: A Study in Rabbinic Political Theory, by Martin Sicker (New York: Praeger, 1988).
Yaffe, M. D. (1989). The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig, ed. Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1988).
Yaffe, M. D. (1988). The Education of Desire: Plato and the Philosophy of Religion, by Michel Despland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985).
Yaffe, M. D. (1988). The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, ed. Richard Kennington (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1985).
Kluback, W., Yaffe, M. D. (1987). Hermann Cohen: The Challenge of a Religion of Reason. 325-330. Chico, California: Scholars Press.
Yaffe, M. D. (1987). Self-Knowledge in Plato's 'Phaedrus', by Charles Griswold (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
Yaffe, M. D. (1987). The Idea of Humanity: Hermann Cohen's Legacy to Philosophy and Theology (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987).
Yaffe, M. D. (1986). Socrates and the State, by Richard Kraut (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Yaffe, M. D. (1985). Choices in Modern Jewish Thought: A Partisan Guide, by Eugene B. Borowitz (New York: Behrman House, 1983).
Yaffe, M. D. (1985). The Imperative of Responsibility, by Hans Jonas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984).
Yaffe, M. D. (1985). The Territorial Dimension of Judaism, by W.D. Davies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
Yaffe, M. D. (1984). Joseph Ibn Kaspi's 'Gevia' Kesef': A Study in Medieval Jewish Philosophic Bible Commentary, by Basil Herring (New York: Ktav, 1982).
Yaffe, M. D. (1984). Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni', by Wye Jamison Allanbrook (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
Yaffe, M. D. (1983). A Jewish Philosophy and Pattern of Life, by Simon Greenberg (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America Press, 1981).
Yaffe, M. D. (1983). Studies in Bemidbar (Numbers), by Nehama Liebowitz (Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization, 5740/1980).
Yaffe, M. D. (1983). The Human Way: A Dialogic Approach to Religion and Human Experience, by Maurice Friedman (Chambersburg, Penn.: Anima Books, 1982).
Yaffe, M. D. (1982). Formulation of Policy in the Catholic and Jewish Traditions, by Eugene F. Fisher and Daniel F. Polish (Notre Dame, Ind.,: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980).
Yaffe, M. D. (1982). Jewish Messianism and Christian Trinitarian Doctrine, by Pinchas Lapide and Jürgen Moltmann (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981).
Yaffe, M. D. (1982). Judaism and Psychology: Halachic Perspectives, by Moshe Halevi Spero (New York: Ktav and Yeshiva University Press, 1980).
Yaffe, M. D. (1982). Plato's 'Apology of Socrates': An Interpretation, with a New Translation, by Thomas G. West (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979), and Law and Obedience: The Arguments of Plato's 'Crito', by A.D. Woozley (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1979).
Yaffe, M. D. (1982). The 'Laws' of Plato, trans. with Notes and an Interpretive Essay by Thomas L. Pangle (New York: Basic Books, 1980).
Yaffe, M. D. (1982). The Theology of Abraham Bibago: A Defense of the Divine Will, Knowledge and Providence in Fifteenth-Century Spanish Jewish Philosophy, by Alan Lazaroff (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1981).
Yaffe, M. D. (1981). George Berkeley in America, by Edwin S. Gaustad (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979).
Yaffe, M. D. (1981). Messianism in the Talmudic Era, ed. Leo Landman (New York: Ktav, 1979).
Yaffe, M. D. (1981). Striking Roots: Reflections on Five Decades of Jewish Life, by Aaron Horowitz (Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 1979).
Yaffe, M. D. (1981). The Chrysalis of Religion: A Guide to the Jewishness of Martin Buber's 'I and Thou', by Daniel S. Breslauer (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980).
Yaffe, M. D. (1981). The Jewish Return into History: Reflections in the Age of Auschwitz and a New Jerusalem, by Emil L. Fackenheim (New York: Schocken Books, 1979).
Yaffe, M. D. (1981). Theology as Comedy: Critical and Theoretical Implications, by George Aichele, Jr. (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980).
Yaffe, M. D. (1981). What Can God Do? by Frederick Sontag (Nashville: Abingdon Press,1979).
Yaffe, M. D. (1978). The American Movement to Aid Soviet Jews, by William W. Orbach (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979).
Encyclopedia Article
Yaffe, M. D. (2008). "Judaism." In Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. 2 vols..
Yaffe, M. D. (2007). "Spinoza, Baruch or Benedict (1632-77)." The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief..
Journal Article
Yaffe, M. D. (2021). “Defending National Loyalty: Yoram Hazony on Nationalism”. Perspectives on Political Science. 50(1), .
Yaffe, M. D. (2017). Parens on Strauss on Recovering Maimonides.
Yaffe, M. D. (2012). "?Qué significa popularizar la filosofía? El Fedón de Mendelssohn." La Torre del Virrey: Revista de Estudios Culturales.
Yaffe, M. D. (2008). 'Exile' as a Theologico-Political Principle in Leo Strauss's Jewish Thought.
Yaffe, M. D. (2008). Leo Strauss y la dimensión teológica de la filosofía política.
Yaffe, M. D. (2007). Interpretación de la Ética de Spinoza como un 'sistema': las Horas matinales de Moses Mendelssohn.
Yaffe, M. D. (2007). Leo Strauss and the Theological Dimension of Political Philosophy: Four Readings.
Yaffe, M. D. (2007). Remarks On Translating Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.
Yaffe, M. D. (1998). Shakespeare and the Jews: A Review Essay.
Yaffe, M. D. (1997). Kenneth Hart Green on Leo Strauss and Maimonides.
Yaffe, M. D. (1995). 'The Histories and Successes of the Hebrews': The Demise of the Biblical Polity in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise.
Yaffe, M. D. (1994). Biblical Religion and Liberal Democracy: Comments on Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise and Sacks's Commentary on the Book of Genesis.
Yaffe, M. D. (1994). On Beginning to Translate Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.
Yaffe, M. D. (1993). "The Case Against the Great Books—And its Refutation." In The Core and the Canon: A National Debate..
Yaffe, M. D. (1993). Two Recent Treatments of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise: A Review Essay.
Yaffe, M. D. (1991). Leo Strauss as Judaic Thinker: Some First Notions.
Yaffe, M. D. (1991). One-Sided Platonism: Hermann Cohen on the 'Social Ideal' in Plato and the Prophets.
Yaffe, M. D. (1989). On Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law: A Review Essay.
Yaffe, M. D. (1979). Liturgy and Ethics: Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig on the Day of Atonement.
Yaffe, M. D. (1979). Myth and 'Science' in Aristotle's Theology.
Yaffe, M. D. (1979). Providence in Medieval Aristotelianism: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Book of Job.
Yaffe, M. D. (1976). Civil Disobedience and the Opinion of the Many: Plato's Crito.
Other
Yaffe, M. D. (2017). Symposium on Joshua Parens's Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy. Review of Politics. 79(3), 475-93. New York, NY: Cambridge UP. http//us.cambridge/org/information/rights/
Popular Press Article
Yaffe, M. D. (1997). Shylock as Drawn by Shakespeare.
Translation or Transcription
Yaffe, M. D., Green, K. H. (2013). Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings.
Yaffe, M. D. (1978). Translation from the Greek, with Anthony Damico, of Josephus, Antiquities 12.12-17, in Ellis Rivkin, A Hidden Revolution: The Pharisees' Search for the Kingdom Within.

Presentations Given

Invited Talk

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Temple Shalom, Three Images of the Emerging Modern Jew, Dallas, United States of America. (2016).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Jewish Learning Fest, The Role of the Jew in Founding Modern High-Tech Society: Joabin in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1626), Dallas, United States of America. (2015).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Temple Beth-El, Shylock and the Jewish Question, Fort Worth, United States of America. (2015).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Jewish Learning Fest, The Torah's Sabbatical and Jubilee Laws--their Social, Political, Economic, Agricultural and Environmental Advantages, Dallas, United States of America. (2014).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Temple Shalom, Shakespeare's Pro-Jewish Intent in The Merchant of Venice (1596), Dallas, United States of America. (2014).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), University of Dallas, Yet Another Look at Shakespeare's 'Jewish' Play, University of Dallas, United States of America. (2014).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, What does it Mean to Popularize Philosophy? Moses Mendelssohn's Phaedo, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2011).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Wolensky Lecture, Can a Jew be a Skeptical Environmentalist?, Canada. (2010).

Lecture

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, After 50 Years: Emil Fackenheim on Hermann Cohen, Canada. (2015).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Jews' Fidelity to Jewish Law in the Nation State: Hermann Cohen's 'Idealizing' Vindication of Moses Mendelssohn, United States of America. (2014).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), North Texas [Regional] Philosophical Association, Religion, Ecology, and Biography in George James's Ecology in Permanent Economy: The Activism and Environmental Philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2013), University of North Texas, United States of America. (2014).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), North Texas [Regional] Philosophical Association, To Hell with Leibniz: G. E. Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn on Eternal Punishments, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2013).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Northeastern Political Science Association, Romans in Shakespeare's Venice: Comments on Timothy W. Burns, Shakespeare's Political Wisdom (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), United States of America. (2013).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Association for Jewish Studies, Does Maimonides have a Philosophical 'System'? Moses Mendelssohn on the Justification for Maimonides' Logic, United States of America. (2012).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), American Academy of Religion Southwest Region, How Spinoza Got Us to Identify tolerance with Charity, United States of America. (2011).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Northeastern Political Science Association, Leo Strauss's Discovery of F. H. Jacobi's Problematic Liberalism in his Critique of the Enlightenment, United States of America. (2011).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Parens, J. (Other), Macfarland, J. C. (Other), Northeastern Political Science Association, Teaching Maimonides: Remarks on a New Sourcebook, United States of America. (2011).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), American Academy of Religion Southwest Region, Why Couldn't Shylock Forgive Antonio--and Vice Versa? Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as a Platonic Dialogue on the Jewish-Christian Question, United States of America. (2010).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Association for Jewish Studies, Leo Strauss on Hermann Cohen's 'Idealizing' Appropriation of Maimonides as a Platonist, United States of America. (2010).

Yaffe, M. D. (Presenter), Association of Jewish Studies, Why Mendolssohn Couldn't Fathom Lessing's Political Theology, United States of America. (2009).

Panel Presentation

Yaffe, M. D. (Author & Presenter), Northeastern Political Science Association, Comments on T. Burns's Bacon on 'Miracles' and N. Behnegar's Locke on the 'State of Nature', Northeastern Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada, Canada. (2018).

Yaffe, M. D. (Author & Presenter), Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, How Francis Bacon's New Organon Co-opts Biblical Theology for his New Atlantis, Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, United States of America. (2017).

Yaffe, M. D. (Author & Presenter), Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Emil Fackenheim's Jewish Correction of Kant's Quasi-Christian Eschatology, Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, United States of America. (2016).

Yaffe, M. D. (Panelist), Leo Strauss on How to Study Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, Leo Strauss's 'How to Study Spinoza's Theologic-Political Treatise, Henry Salvatori Center, Claremont McKenna College, United States of America. (2015).

Paper

Yaffe, M. D. (Author), Association for Jewish Studies, “The Bible Made Us Do It?—Genesis 1:28, Francis Bacon and the Environmental Crisis”, San Diego, United States of America. (2019).

Yaffe, M. D. (Author), Northeastern Political Science Association, “Three Conspicuous Features of Yoram Hazony’s Argument about Nationalism—and Three Questions about Them”, Philadelphia, United States of America. (2019).

Yaffe, M. D. (Author), North Texas Philosophy Association, “What is a Thing? Bacon and Heidegger (and Kant)”, University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America. (2019).

Yaffe, M. D. (Author), North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors Annual Meeting, “Kantian Philosophy vis-à-vis the Evil of the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim’s Second-Thoughts”, United States of America. (2019).

Yaffe, M. D. (Author), Southern Political Science Association, “The Book of Job and the Limitations of Human Knowledge (Maimonides, Guide 3.22–23)”, Austin, TX, United States of America. (2019).

Yaffe, M. D. (Author & Presenter), Northeastern Political science Association, Political Philosophy as Handmaid: George Grant's Political Theology, Northeastern Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada, Canada. (2018).

Yaffe, M. D. (Author & Presenter), North Texas [area] Philosophical Association, Genetic vs. Eidetic causes: Francis Bacon's Critique of Aristotle in the new Organon (1670), North Texas [area] Philosophical Association, University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America. (2018).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Yaffe, M. D., "Subvention for book, Emil Fackenheim's Post-Holocaust Thought and its Philosophical Sources," Sponsored by University of Toronto Centre for Jewish Studies, Other, $8000 Funded. (2020 – 2020).
Yaffe, M. D., "Yoram Hazony on Nationalism," Sponsored by Philosophy and Religion Department, UNT, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (August 4, 2019 – August 7, 2019).
Uncategorized
Yaffe, M. D. (Principal), "Subvention for Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s, ed. Yaffe and Ruderman (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)," Sponsored by Earhart Foundation, $1335. (2013 – 2013).
Yaffe, M. D. (Other), "Subvention for Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader, ed. Martin D. Yaffe (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001)," Sponsored by Nancy C. and Jeffrey B. Marcus Foundation, et al.. (2000 – 2000).
Yaffe, M. D. (Other), "Translation of Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670)," Sponsored by Earhart Foundation. (1999 – 1999).
Yaffe, M. D. (Other), "Anticipating the Modern Jew: Marlowe's Barabas, Shakespeare's Shylock, Bacon's Joabin," Sponsored by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. (1991 – 1991).
Yaffe, M. D. (Other), "Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on Job," Sponsored by American Council of Learned Societies. (1982 – 1982).
Yaffe, M. D. (Other), "Translation of Thomas Aquinas, Literal Exposition on Job." (with Anthony Damico)," Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities. (1981 – 1982).

Service

University Service

Committee Chair, Search committee--Principal Lecturer. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Chairperson, Search Committee--Jewish Studies Program Director. (September 1, 2021 – Present).

Member, UGAC. (2021 – Present).

Member, PhD Committees. (2022).

Committee Chair, Executive, Personnel, Qualifying Exam, Scholarship Committees; plus 6 ad hoc committees: Appeals, Promotion, Searches,. (2018 – 2022).

Other, Library Liaison. (2018 – 2022).

Member, PhD Qualifying Exam Committee. (2016 – 2022).

Co-Chair, Scholarship Committee. (August 15, 2019 – August 14, 2022).

Member, Jewish and Israel Studies Program Committee. (2000 – 2020).

Chairperson, Executive Committee. (August 15, 2019 – August 14, 2020).

Committee Member, PhD Qualifying Exam Committee. (August 15, 2019 – August 14, 2020).

Committee Member, Search Committee. (August 15, 2019 – August 14, 2020).

Member, Search Committee. (2017 – 2018).

Chairperson, Executive Committee. (August 2016 – 2018).

Member, Scholarship Committee. (2016 – 2018).

Co-Chair, Search Committee. (2016 – 2017).

Member, Bylaws revision committee. (2016).

Professional Service

Editorial Review Board Member, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. (1997 – 2020).

Other, North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors. (2019).

Other, SUNY Press. (2019).

Reviewer, Book, University of Pennsylvania Press. (2019).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Israel Science Foundation. (2018).

Other, Northeastern Political Science Association. (2018).

External T&P Letter Writer, Roosevelt University. (2018).

External T&P Letter Writer, College of the Holy Cross. (2017).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Environmental Ethics (journal). (2017).

Other, Northeastern Political Science Association. (2017).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Review of Politics (journal). (2017 – 2017).

Reviewer, Book, SUNY Press. (2016 – 2017).

Other, Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego. (2016).

External T&P Letter Writer, Duquesne University. (2016).

Other, ISGAP (Scholarly foundation on antisemitism). (2016).

Other, Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston. (2015 – 2016).

Public Service

Other, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, DENTON, TX. (2019).

Other, OLLI. (June 8, 2018 – July 19, 2018).

Other, Jewish LearningFest, Dallas. (November 6, 2016).

Other, Temple Shalom, Dallas. (March 30, 2016 – April 13, 2016).

Other, Department of Philosophy, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas. (1990 – 2009).

Other, Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas. (1973 – 2003).