Shulamit Reinharz, Co-Director
reinharz@brandeis.edu
Shulamit Reinharz was born in Amsterdam. Her parents – refugees from Germany - had been in hiding throughout the war in Holland and were among the 10% of the Jews who survived. Shula 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 10 years, and then returned to Brandeis as a professor of sociology.
In the 1990’s Professor Reinharz directed the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis University. Among many other innovations created its graduate program and its program in the prevention of violence against women. She also founded 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, Hadassah established the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, which Shula 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. With her husband and an Israeli colleague, an annotated volume of the letters of Manya Shohat, one of the founders of Israel.
As of September 2005, Shula 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.
Sylvia Barack Fishman, Co-Director
fishman@brandeis.edu
Sylvia Barack Fishman is a professor of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University, and also co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Both of her books, The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2006)
and Double Or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage, (Brandeis University Press, 2004) have been the subject of lively discussion by scholars and Jewish communal professionals. Prof. Fishman is the author of numerous articles on Jewish education, the American Jewish family, changing roles of Jewish women, and American Jewish literature, film and popular culture, as well as three previous books: Follow My Footprints: Changing /images of Women in American Jewish Fiction; A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community; and Jewish Life and American Culture . Prof. Fishman received her BA from Stern College at Yeshiva University, which awarded the Samuel Belkin Prize for Distinguished Professional Achievement, and her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, which awarded her a Danforth Graduate Fellowship.
Debby Olins, Program Manager
dolins@brandeis.edu
Debby Olins joined the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in 2000, after spending eleven years in London where she worked for a major exhibition organizer. She holds Bachelors degree from Connecticut College, and a Masters degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Debby manages three key HBI programs: Research Awards, Scholar-in-Residence Program, and Lily Safra Internship Program. In addition, she has played a major role in the development of the HBI calendar project and companion exhibits.
Lindsay Harris, Online Communications Specialist
llharris@brandeis.edu
Lindsay Harris is the OnlineCommunications Specialist at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She joined HBI in December 2008 and is a graduate from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she received her Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing, and a minor in Sociology. Lindsay also completed a Graphic Design Certificate at the New England Institute of Art in January, 2011. Lindsay maintains the HBI website, does photo editing and promotional graphic design work for HBI projects/publications/events, manages the HBI social media endeavors, and assists in the production of 614: The HBI eZine. Additionally, she works with the Communications and Marketing Director on marketing and PR activities.
Sarah Twichell, Office Coordinator
sarahtwi@brandeis.edu
Sarah Twichell joined the HBI in April of 2006 after working in administrative positions at a variety of non-profit and educational organizations. She holds a bachelor's degree from the Hartt School and an M.A, from Tufts University. Sarah handles event planning and general administrative tasks for the HBI.
Melissa Grossman, National Director of HBI Conversations
gmelissa@brandeis.edu
Melissa Grossman is the National Director of the HBI Conversations Program. She joined HBI in 2011 and is a graduate of Brandeis University where she received her B.A. in English Literature in 1991. She also received her M.S.W from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Prior to coming to HBI, she worked at UJA-Federation in New York, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and at Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
Michelle Cove, Editor-in-Chief of 614: THE HBI EZINE
mcove@brandeis.edu
Michelle Cove has been writing and editing for national magazines and websites for over 15 years, including her positions as Editor-in-Chief of JVibe (the national magazine for Jewish teens), Senior Editor for Girls' Life, and Senior Editor of Mother Earth News. In 2006, she started a blog for Jewish Women's Archive called Jewesses with Attitude, geared to 20- and 30-something Jewish women. In 1999, Michelle co-authored the national bestseller I?m Not Mad, I Just Hate You!: A new understanding of mother-daughter conflict, published by Viking. Michelle has freelance written articles for numerous publications including Family Fun, Psychology Today, Success, and Body & Soul.
Lisa Fishbayn, Director of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law
fishbayn@brandeis.edu
Dr. Lisa Fishbayn is Director of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute and a Visiting Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. After completing her doctoral work at Harvard Law School, she taught family law, legal theory and the philosophy of multiculturalism in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. She has published articles on gender and culture issues in constitutional law, political philosophy and policy. Her current work examines the intersection of civil and religious law in the struggle to find remedies for the agunah problem.
Joanna Michlic, Director of the HBI Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust
jmichlic@brandeis.edu
Joanna Beata Michlic is the Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She received her doctorate and her master's degree in modern European and Jewish history from University of London, and her bachelor's degree in Slavonic studies at Lódz University, Poland. Between 2000 and 2003, she was a Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem. Until December 2008 she was an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Holocaust and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Bethlehem Pennsylvania. She is an Affiliated Fellow at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies and the Center for Ukrainian Studies at Harvard University. Her major publications include Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (2004; co-edited with Antony Polonsky) and Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (hardback 2006, paperback edition 2008)(Polish and Hebrew translations in preparation). She is currently working on two monographs, The Social History of Jewish Children in Poland: Survival and Identity, 1945-1949 and Bringing the Dark to Light: The Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe, co-edited with John-Paul Himka.
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