Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Academic Advisory Committee

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Academic Advisory Committee is composed of recognized experts in a range of disciplines within Jewish Women’s and Gender Studies.  Each year, they share their time and expertise with us to conduct evaluations of proposals submitted to the HBI Research Awards Program.  A subset of this group acts as the final Research Awards Selection Committee.  The 2025 Research Awards Selection Committee is Lisa Fishbayn Joffe (Brandeis University), Rav Rachel Adelman (Hebrew College), Deidre Butler (Carleton University), Eva Frojmovic (University of Leeds), Debra Kaufman (Northeastern University, emerita), and Ilana Szobel (Brandeis University).

2025 Committee Members

Rav Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College*

Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology, IDEMEC, CNRS Aix Marseille University

Joyce Antler, Brandeis University (emerita)

Andi LaVine Arnovitz, Independent

Lynne Avadenka, Independent

Orit Avishai, Fordham University

Yaëlle Azagury, Independent 

Monique Balbuena, University of Oregon 

Edna Barromi-Perlman, University of Haifa, Kibbutzim College

Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Aviva Ben-Ur, University of Massachusetts

Susan Berrin, Sh’ma Now

Tamar Biala, Independent

Paula Birnbaum, University of San Francisco

Jonathan Branfman, Stanford University

Marla Brettschneider, University of New Hampshire

Ayelet Brinn, University of Hartford

Adriana Brodsky, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University (emerita)

Deidre Butler, Carleton University*

Jennifer Caplan, University of Cincinnati

Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University

Esther Carmel-Hakim, University of Haifa

Rebecca Cypess, Yeshiva University 

Dina Danon, Binghamton University

Galeet Dardashti, Independent

Sarah Ifft Decker, Rhodes College

Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University

Hasia Diner, New York University (emerita)

Deborah Dwork, CUNY

Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Cambridge University

Adam Feriziger, Bar-Ilan University

Sylvia Barack Fishman, Brandeis University (emerita)

Miri Freud-Kandel, University of Oxford

Michal Frenkel, Hebrew University

Sylvia Fuks Fried, Brandeis University

Eva Frojmovic, University of Leeds*

Karen Frostig, Brandeis University, Lesley University

Shoshannah Frydman, Independent

Shulamit Gilboa, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature

Abigail Gillman, Boston University

Nora Gold, University of Toronto

Andrea Gondos, University of Rochester

Elizabeth Graver, Boston College

Rachel B. Gross, San Francisco State University

Nina Grunfeld, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Alexandra Guerson, University of Toronto

Chaya Halberstam, King's University College

Rachel Harris, University of Illinois

Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston College

Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania

Janine Holc, Loyola University Maryland

Rita Horváth, Yad Vashem

Rabbi Shirley Idelson, HUC-JIR

Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University - Bloomington

Ronit Irshai, Bar-Ilan University

Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University

Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Brandeis University*

Janet Elise Johnson, Brooklyn College

Jenna Weissman Joselit, George Washington University

Norma Joseph, Concordia University

Peter Kalb, Brandeis University

Einat Kapach, Ma’aleh Film School

Debra Kaplan, Bar-Ilan University

Judith Katz, University of Minnesota (emerita)

Debra Kaufman, Northeastern University (emerita)*

Alexander Kaye, Brandeis University

Lynn Kaye, Brandeis University

Gwynn Kessler, Swarthmore College

Melissa Klapper, Rowan University

Anat Koplowtiz-Breier, Bar-Ilan University

Rachel Kranson, University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Krasner, Brandeis University

Adrianne Krstansky, Brandeis University

Gail Labovitz, American Jewish University

Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University

Lori Lefkovitz, Northeastern University

Marjorie Lehman, Jewish Theological Seminary

Laura Arnold Leibman, Reed College

Jon Levisohn, Brandeis University

Laura Levitt, Temple University

Laura Limonic, Old Westbury SUNY

Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, Suffolk University

Bindu Malieckal, Saint Anselm College

Renée Levine Melammed, Schechter Institute

Joanna Michlic, University College London, Lund University

Yael Munk, The Open University of Israel

Heather Munro, King’s College London

Heather Nathans, Tufts University

Anita Norich, University of Michigan (emerita)

Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia*

Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College

Tahneer Oksman, Marymount Manhattan

Rachel Perry, University of Haifa

Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota

Stephanie Pridgeon, Bates College

Shari Rabin, Oberlin College

Mark Raider, University of Cincinnati

Michal Raucher, Rutgers University

Shulamit Reinharz, Brandeis University (emerita)

Larissa Remennick, Bar-Ilan University

Anna Rich-Abad, University of Nottingham

Noya Rimalt, University of Haifa

Sara Ronis, St. Mary's University

Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University

Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University

Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto

Susan Sered, Suffolk University

Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, Sapir Academic College

Toni Shapiro-Phim, Brandeis University

Eugene Sheppard, Brandeis University

Margalit Shilo, Bar-Ilan University

Noam Sienna, University of Toronto

Nancy Sinkoff, Rutgers University

Sivan Rajuan Shtang, Independent

Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto

Gila Silverman, Independent

Maina Singh, American University

Helene Sinnreich, University of Tennessee

Ellen Smith, Brandeis University (emerita)

Haim Sperber, Western Galilee College

Nina S. Spiegel, Portland State University

Leslie Starobin​, Framingham State University​ (emerita)

Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University*

Caron Tabb, Independent

Ephraim Tabory, Bar-Ilan University

Rabba Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, University of Manchester

Lea Taragin-Zeller, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Liliane Targownik, Tel Aviv University

Elly Teman, Ruppin Academic Center

Yofi Tirosh, Tel Aviv University

Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, University College London

Ellen Umansky, Fairfield University

Tanya Zion Waldoks, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shayna Weiss, Brandeis University

Beth Wenger, University of Pennsylvania

Linda Zisquit, Bar-Ilan University (emerita)

*  2025 Research Awards Selection Committee