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AJS Committees

Board of Directors Executive Committee

  • Laura Leibman (Reed College), President
  • Helen Kim (Whitman College), Vice President/Program
  • Hartley Lachter (Lehigh University), Vice President/Membership and Outreach
  • Laura S. Lieber (University of Regensburg), Vice President/Publications
  • Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University), Secretary/Treasurer
  • Robin Judd (The Ohio State University), Immediate Past President

Contingent Faculty Committee

Contingent Faculty Task Force Report and Recommendations: A Path Toward a More Inclusive Field

  • Adam Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town), cochair
  • Rachel Greenblatt (Brandeis University), cochair
  • Howard Apothaker
  • Beth Cohen (California State University at Northridge)
  • Barbara Krasner (William Patterson University)
  • Rhoda Seidelman (University of Oklahoma)
  • Daniel Z. Stein (Congregation B'nei Shalom)
  • Amanda Ruppenthal Stein (Carroll University)
  • Britt Tevis (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Barry Trachtenberg (Wake Forest University)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)) Committee

  • Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown University), chair
  • Ari Ariel (University of Iowa)
  • Adriana M. Brodsky (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
  • Daniela Goldfine (University of Wisconsin - River Falls)
  • Paul Gustav-Feller (Northwestern University)
  • Michelle Katz (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)
  • Chelsie May (University of Chicago)
  • Brian K. Roby (University of Michigan)
  • Ilana Szobel (Brandeis University)
  • Hannah Zaves-Greene (Sarah Lawrence College)

Film Committee

  • James Bunton
  • Leslye Friedberg
  • Slava Greenberg (University of Southern California)
  • Daniel Magilow (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
  • Oded Nir (Queens College, CUNY)

Governance Committee

  • David Freidenreich (Colby College), chair
  • Nina Caputo (University of Florida)
  • Jeffrey Abt (Wayne State University)
  • Zev Eleff (Gratz College)
  • Mark Kligman (UCLA)
  • Elias Sacks (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Lauren Lockshin (Touro College)
  • Max Strassfeld (University of Arizona)

Nominating Committee

  • Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh), chair
  • Glenn Dynner (Fairfield University)
  • Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University)
  • Jessica Kirzane (University of Chicago)
  • Sara Ronis (St Mary’s University)
  • Anne Rothfeld (U.S. Federal Government)
  • Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale University )

Office on Sexual Misconduct (OSM)

OSM website

Program Committee

  • Helen Kim (Whitman College), chair
  • Mara Benjamin (Mount Holyoke College)
  • Beth Berkowitz (Barnard College)
  • Jonathan Branfman (Stanford University)
  • Naomi Brenner (The Ohio State University)
  • Samantha Cooper (Harvard University)
  • Natan Meir (Portland State University)
  • Jessica Roitman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Nick Underwood (The College of Idaho)
  • Mary Arnstein (AJS), ex officio
  • Warren Hoffman (AJS), ex officio
  • Laura Leibman (Reed College), ex officio

Scholars of Color Mentoring Fellowship Steering Committee

  • Helen Kim (Whitman College), chair
  • Kirsten Fermaglich (Michigan State University)
  • Bryan Roby (University of Michigan)
  • Max Strassfeld (University of Arizona)
  • Monique Balbuena (University of Oregon)
  • Amy Weiss (AJS), ex officio

Task Force on Conferences

  • Beth Berkowitz (Barnard College), chair
  • Orit Avishai (Fordham University)
  • Sarah Bunin Benor (HUC-JIR)
  • Sonia Gollance (University College London)
  • Sheila Jelen (University of Kentucky)
  • Josh Teplitsky (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Mary Arnstein (AJS), ex officio