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 2024 Research Awards Selection Committee is Lisa Fishbayn Joffe (Brandeis University), Rav Rachel Adelman (Hebrew College), Deidre Butler (Carleton University), Debra Kaufman (Northeastern University, emerita), Melissa Klapper (Rowan University), Larissa Reminick (Bar Ilan University) and Ilana Szobel (Brandeis University).

2023-24 Committee Members

  • Gannit Ankori, Brandeis University

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

  • Joyce Antler, Brandeis University 

  • Monique Balbuena, University of Oregon 

  • Judith Baskin, University of Oregon (emerita)

  • Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Ruth Behar, Independant

  • Lihi Ben Shitrit, University of Georgia

  • Aviva Ben-Ur, University of Massachusetts

  • Mara Benjamin, Mount Holyoke 

  • Susan Berrin, Sh’ma Now

  • Paula Birnbaum, University of San Francisco

  • Marla Brettschneider, University of New Hampshire

  • Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University (emerita)

  • Esther Carmel-Hakim, University of Haifa

  • Fern Chertok, Brandeis University

  • Lila Corwin-Berman, Temple University

  • Julie Cwikel, Ben Gurion University

  • Rebecca Cypess, Rutgers University

  • Galeet Dardashti, Independent

  • Sarah Ifft Decker, Rhodes College

  • Hasia Diner, New York University

  • Deborah Dwork, CUNY

  • Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Cambridge University

  • David Ellenson, Brandeis University

  • Yuval Evri, Brandeis University

  • Marcia Falk, Independent

  • Janice Fernheimer, University of Kentucky

  • Sylvia Barak Fishman, Brandeis University (emerita)

  • Janet Freedman, Brandeis University WSRC

  • Miri Freud-Kandel, University of Oxford

  • Sylvia Fuks Fried, Brandeis University

  • Abigail Gillman, Boston University

  • Jennifer Glaser, University of Cincinnati

  • Nora Gold, University of Toronto

  • Elizabeth Graver, Boston College

  • Rachel Greenblatt, Brandeis University

  • 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

  • Sara Horowitz, York University

  • Rita Horváth, Yad Vashem

  • Rabbi Shirley Idelson, HUC-JIR

  • Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University - Bloomington

  • Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University

  • Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Brandeis University

  • Janet Elise Johnson, Brooklyn College

  • Jenna Weissman Joselit, George Washington University

  • Norma Joseph, Concordia University

  • Robin Judd, Ohio State University

  • Judith Katz, University of Minnesota (emerita)

  • Alexander Kaye, Brandeis University

  • Ellen Kellman, Brandeis University

  • Gwynn Kessler, Swarthmore

  • Hannah Kliger, Penn State University

  • Rachel Kranson, University of Pittsburgh

  • Jonathan Krasner, Brandeis University

  • Gail Labovitz, American Jewish University

  • Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University

  • Jessica Lang, CUNY

  • Lori Lefkovitz, Northeastern University

  • Laura Arnold Leibman, Reed College

  • Molly Myerowitz Levine, Howard University

  • Jon Levisohn, Brandeis University

  • Laura Levitt, Temple University

  • Judith M. Lewin, Union College

  • Laura Limonic, Old Westbury SUNY

  • Chia Longman, Ghent University

  • Shulamit Magnus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Bindu Malieckal, Saint Anselm College

  • Renée Levine Melammed, Schechter Institute

  • Yehudah Mirsky, Brandeis University

  • Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota

  • Heather Nathans, Tufts University

  • Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia

  • Tahneer Oksman, Marymount Manhattan

  • Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota

  • Shari Rabin, Oberlin College

  • Mark Raider, University of Cincinnati

  • Michal Raucher, Rutgers University

  • Shulamit Reinharz, Brandeis University (emerita)

  • Larissa Remminick, Bar-Ilan University

  • Anna Rich-Abad, University of Nottingham

  • Noya Rimalt, University of Haifa

  • Chantal Ringuet, Independent

  • Jessica Roda, Georgetown University

  • Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman, Bar-Ilan University

  • Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University

  • Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University

  • Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto

  • Susan Sered, Suffolk University

  • Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, Sapir Academic College

  • Toni Shapiro-Phim, Brandeis University

  • Margalit Shilo, Bar Ilan University

  • Sivan Rajuan Shtang, Independent

  • Shifra Shvarts, Ben Gurion University

  • Noam Sienna, 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

  • Ephraim Tabory, Bar-Ilan University

  • Lea Taragin-Zeller, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Liliane Targownik, Tel Aviv University

  • Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, Bar Ilan University

  • Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, University College London

  • Miriam Udel, Emory College

  • Ellen Umansky, Fairfield University

  • Rabbi Mira Wasserman, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

  • Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Shayna Weiss, Brandeis University

  • Beth Wenger, University of Pennsylvania

  • Tanya Zion Waldoks, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Linda Zisquit, Bar Ilan University (emerita)