Shulamit Reinharz
Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology
Founding Director, Women's Studies Research Center
Founding Director, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
email: reinharz@brandeis.edu
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Focus of Research Qualitative and Feminist Research Methods Jewish Women's Studies, Israel Women's Studies History of Women's Contributions to Sociology. Education Ph.D., Brandeis University 1977. |
My areas of teaching include group dynamics, history of sociology of work, and social psychology. Since 1991, I have been deeply engaged in institution building, first as director of the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis, and then as founder of two research institutes housed in a newly renovated building that I designed. I am deeply engaged in community development, in Jewish women's studies, and empowering students and scholars through various new programs including investigative journalism, a college women's health website, a flourishing art gallery, a book publication series, etc. All of these new activities are propelled and shaped by my sociological imagination.
Publications
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The JGirl's Guide. (2005) with Penina Adelman and Ali Feldman. Jewish Lights Publishing. |
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American Jewish Women and the Creation of the State of Israel. (2004) with Mark A. Raider. Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England. |
"Interviewing Women" (with Susan Chase), in Jaber Gubrium and James Holstein (eds.), Handbook of Interview Research. (Sage, 2002)
Feminist Methods in Social Research (Oxford University Press, 1992)
On Becoming a Social Scientist (Transaction Books, 1984)