Online voting for this year's slate of board nominees to the AJS Board of Directors is now open.
You are being asked to vote on a slate for the five members of the executive committee and a slate for six new Directors to replace the six Directors (out of a total of eighteen directors) leaving the Board in December 2025. These slates were assembled by the AJS Nominating Committee from names submitted by the membership.
The slate was assembled with an eye to ensuring the diversity of the AJS leadership according to such measures as rank, gender, institution, career/professional status, geographic location, and more.
We would like to thank the nominating committee for their work in shaping this year's slate:
Jason Kalman (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion), Chair
Zachary Baker (Emeritus, Stanford University Libraries)
Flora Cassen (Washington University)
Hannah Zaves-Greene (University of Pennsylvania)
Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham
University)
Adam Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town)
Tzvi Novick (University of Notre Dame)
As in past years, the slate can be voted either "up" or "down" in its entirety and votes cannot be placed for or against individual members. Voting will end on November 15. Results will be announced in the following weeks.Please note that to access the ballot, you will be required to sign in to your MyAJS account. This ensures that only current members vote in the election and that each member votes only once. While the system requires you to login with your username, the voting itself is completely anonymous.
Nominees for a two-year term that would run December 2025–December 2027:
Helen Kim is associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor of Sociology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Helen currently serves as AJS VP for Program and has served as a member of the AJS Board since 2021.
Krista Dalton is associate professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at Kenyon College.
Nick Underwood is assistant professor of History and the Berger-Neilsen Chair of Judaic Studies at The College of Idaho.
Kirsten Fermaglich is professor of History and Jewish Studies at Michigan State University.
Matthew Boxer is assistant research professor at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University.
Nominees for a three-year term that would run December 2025–December 2028:
Adriana M. Brodsky is professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Ari Finkelstein is associate professor in Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati and specializes in Antiquity and Late Antiquity.
Dana Fishkin is a professor of History and Humanities at Touro University in New York.
Helene Sinnreich is professor and head of the Department of Religious Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Anna Elena Torres is assistant professor at University of Chicago; author of Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature, A Bear Flew By: Animality in Yiddish Arts and Literature; and coeditor of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism.
Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
