Faculty Guide

Title

Jacob S. Potofsky Professor of Sociology, Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and Director of the Women's Studies Research Center

Sociology
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Jewish women's studies. History of women in sociology. Sociology of work. Qualitative and feminist methodology.

Awards and Honors

Commission for Jewish Education of Palm Beach County, Florida (2012)

Panel of Conference in Israel, January 2011, was dedicated to me. (2011)

Panel of conference at the Association for Israel Studies is devoted to discussing my book, Observing the Observer. (2011)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2008)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research (2007)

Honored by Jewish Funds for Justice for her work promoting social justice (2006)

Runner-up, Koret International National Jewish Book Award for the JGirl's Guide. (2006)

Honored by REACH, an advocacy organization concerned with domestic violence (2005)

JGirl's Guide awarded Notable Book by Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries (2005)

Ort - Woman of Vision (2001)

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (awarded, did not accept) (2000 - 2001)

YWCA Academy of Women Achievers "who have displayed exemplary leadership through civic participation, professional success, and positive community action" (1999)

International Women's Forum (1997 - 1998)

Myrtle Wreath Award for "Outstanding leadership in the Jewish community", Hadassah Southern New England Region (1997 - 1998)

Robin Williams Professorship, Eastern Sociological Society (1997 - 1998)

Spirit of Liberty Award, People for the American Way (1997 - 1998)

Chair, Hadassah National Commission on Jewish Studies (1994 - 1995)

Distinguished Publication Award, Association for Women in Psychology (Feminist Methods in Social Research) (1994 - 1997)

Choice Outstanding Academic Book (Feminist Methods in Social Research) (1993)

Distinghished Publications Award for a Scholarly Book, Association for Women in Psychology (Feminist Methods in Social Research) (1992 - 1993)

Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (1986 - 1987)

Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1985 - 1986)

Josephine Nevins Keal Fellowship (provides for research leave for the most outstanding research proposal and promise among untunured frmale faculty, U. of Michigan) (1979 - 1980)

2nd place for college-wide undergraduate teaching award, Dept. of Psychology, U. of Michigan (students & faculty) (1978)

Danforth Foundation, Kent Fellowship (1970)

Courses Taught

WMGS

198a

Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar

Scholarship

Reinharz. A Memoir in Four Hands: Understanding My Father's Experience Surviving the Holocaust in Holland. 2013. (forthcoming)

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Ellen Golub. "Emor: God said What?." Text Messages: A Torah Commentary for Teens. Ed. Jeff Salkin. Vermont: Jewish Lights, 2013

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Julie Clague, ed. Art, Religion and Identity. Indiana University Press, 2013.

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Julie Clague, ed. Jews, Gender and Art. 2013.

Reinharz, Shulamit, Liz Suneby, Joseph Meszler, Diane Heiman. The JBoy's Guide: The GPS for Jewish Teen Guys. Vermont: Jewish Lights, 2013.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Communal Aspects of Contemporary Life." The Communal Idea in the 21st Century. Ed. Menachem Topol. Leiden, The Netherlands and Boston, MA: Brill, 2012

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "The First Century of Jewish Women Artists: The Impact of Four Upheavals." Art, Religion and Identity. Ed. Julie Clague and Shulamit Reinharz. not yet known: not yet known, 2012

Reinharz, Shulamit T. Marginalized No More: The HIstory of Jewish Women in America. Indiana University Press, 2012.

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Barbara Vinick, co-editor. Today I Am a Woman: Stores of Bat Mitzvah Around the World. Indiana University Press, 2011.

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Michal Palgi, ed. The Kibbutz at 100: A Century of Crises and Reinvention. Transaction Books, 2011.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "The Integrated Life of a Modern American Woman: Anne Freeling Schlezinger, 1910-1978.." Pulling it All Together: Anne F. Schlezinger, One of America's First Jewish Wonmen Judges. Ed. Ron Duncan Hart. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Gaon Books, 2011. 9-63.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "review." Rev. of American Israelis: Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity, by Uzi Rebhun and Lilach Lev Ari. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews vol. 40, number 6 November 11, 2011: 740-741.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "“Improving your writing if you weren’t taught the basics in high school,” Commissioned essay for http://www.dur.ac.uk/writingacrossboundaries/writingonwriting/." (2011)

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Foreword." The Women who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965.. Ed. Carol Ingalls. Hanover, NH: UPNE, 2010

Reinharz, Shulamit T. Observing the Observer: Understanding Our Selves in Field Research. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Sergio DellaPergola, ed. Jewish Intermarriage around the World. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Jewish Intermarriage around the World: An Overview." Jewish Intermarriage around the World.. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "On Equal Terms." Art Exhibition Catalogue

Reinharz, Shulamit T. INTENDED CONSEQUENCES: RWANDAN CHILDREN BORN OF RAPE. PHOTOGRAPHS AND INTERVIEWS BY JONATHAN TORGOVNIK.. 2009.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. art catalogue. 2009. (WSRC Salon of the Arts 2009: Cairns.).

Reinharz, Shulamit T (contributor). "The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute Annual Assessment, Executive Report No. 5, Women in Jewish Society." Ed. Rami Tal., 2008

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Elinor Gadon. "Viewers' Guide to Tiger by the Tail!." 2007.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Cultural Specificity and Feminist Art." Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture. Ed. Elinor Gadon, Wendy Tarlow Kaplan and Roobina Karode. New Delhi, India: (adopted in women's studies courses), 2008

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Foreword." Women in the Yishuv and State of Israel. Ed. Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo and Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.). UPNE, 2008

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Gender Debates in Adult Jewish Education." What we Know about Jewish Education. vol. Excerpted in "Gender Debates in Adult Jewish Education: Past and Present," Torah at the Center, Fall 2007, pp. 8-9 Ed. Paul Flexner. Torah Aura Publishers, Inc., 2008

Reinharz, Shulamit T. Planner - Creating Art: Promoting Change: Works by Jewish Women. (supervisor). 2008. Waltham, MA.

Reinharz, Shulamit T (oversight of editor Michelle Cove). "Jewish Women Donate Eggs." 614: the HBI eZine (2007)

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Esther Carmel Hakim. "Putting Women on the Map of Israel (new website)." (2007)

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Sylvia Barack Fishman. "Jewish Women's Transformation of Contemporary Jewish Life." Jewish People Public Policy and Planning Institute. Ed. Chaim Waxman. Jerusalem:, 2007

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Wendy Grinberg. "excerpt from Gender Debates in Adult Jewish Education." Torah at the Core 2007.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. ""Emor: Contemporary Reflections," in The Torah: A Women's Commentary, Tamara Exkenazi and Andrea Weiss, eds..", 2007

Reinharz, Shulamit T. ""My Life as a Shulamit," 614: the HBI ezine. Issue #1." (2007)

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Finding Our/My History: The Case of Manya Wilbushewitz Shohat." Gender, Memory and Jewish Women in Contemporary Europe. Ed. Zsuzsa Toronyi and Andrea Peto. Budapest, HUNGARY: Balassi-EszterKonyvek, 2007

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Gender Debates in Jewish Adult Education." Ed. Paul Flexner., 2007

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Henrietta Szold." Encyclopedia Judaica. 2007.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Introductory Essay." Catalogue: Tiger by the Tail (2007).

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, edited by Heidi Hartmann and Carol Hardy-Fanta.." Rev. of Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland," by Shana Penn

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Nashim." Rev. of Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry, by Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson. vol. Number 13 262-264.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Reading the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism." 614: the HBI ezine vol. 1 (2

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "The Invisible Consecration of Jewish Women." Golem: europaisch-judischer Almanach 2007.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "The Workers' Health Fund in Eretz Israel: Kupat Holim, 1911-1937." Rev. of The Jewish Quarterly Review, by Shifra Shvartz

Reinharz, Shulamit T and Rachel Kulick. "Feminist Content Analysis." Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Ed. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2006

Reinharz, Shulamit T, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Deborah Einhorn. "The New Jewish Family".

Reinharz, Shulamit. ""Out of Sight." Boston Jewish Film Festival Program Book..

Reinharz, Shulamit T, Reinharz, J and Golani, M. Manya Wilbushewitz Shohat: A Critical Collection of Her Writings.. in Hebrew ed. Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2005.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the Winding Road to Sejera." Israeli Women's Studies. Ed. Esther Fuchs. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005

Reinharz, Shulamit T. "various." The Jewish Advocate September 2005 - March 2009

Reinharz, Shulamit T., with Miriam Polis. Teacher's Guide to the JGirl's Guide. Jewish Lights, 2005.

Reinharz,Shulamit T. and and Mark Raider, co-editors. American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise. UPNE, 2005.

Reinharz,Shulamit T. with Penina Adelman and Ali Feldman. The JGirl's Guide. Jewish Lights, 2005.

R. R. 2000.

Reinharz, Shulamit T, Series Editor, ed. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues. Indiana University Press, 1998.

Reinharz,Shulamit T. Feminist Methods in Social Research. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Reinharz,Shulamit T, co-editor, Graham Rowles. Qualitative Gerontology. NY: Springer Publications, 1988.

Reinharz, Shulamit T. On Becoming a Social Scientist: From Survey Research and Participant Obseration to Experiential Analysis. paperback, 6 printings ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1984.

Reinharz,Shulamit T, with K. Heller, R. Price, S. Riger, A. Wandersman. Psychology and Community Change. Homewood IL: Dorsey Press, 1984.

Reinharz, Shulamit T.. On Becoming a Social Scientist: From Survey Research and Participant Obseration to Experiential Analysis. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1979.