Meet the Director
Shulamit Reinharz, Ph.D.
Shulamit Reinharz was born in Amsterdam, grew up in New Jersey, received her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University. She was on the faculty of the University of Michigan
for ten years, and then returned to Brandeis as a professor of sociology.
In the 1990s Professor Reinharz directed the Women’s Studies Program at Brandeis University. Among many other innovations, she created its graduate program, including the first graduate program in Jewish Women’s Studies in the world.
Professor Reinharz chaired Hadassah’s National Commission on American Jewish Women in 1993. Subsequently, in 1997, Hadassah established the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, which she heads to this day.
In 2001 she opened the Women’s Studies Research Center in a 10,000 square foot facility that she designed and for which she raised all the funds.
The holder of the Jacob Potofsky Chair of Sociology, Professor Reinharz is the author or co-author of ten books including most recently, The JGirls’ Guide (a finalist for the Koret Prize) and the highly praised American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise. As of September 2005, she has written a weekly column for the Jewish Advocate, The Boston area Jewish newspaper. Shulamit Reinharz is the mother of two daughters and is married to Jehuda Reinharz, the president of Brandeis University.
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