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 Awards Selection Committee.  The 2023 Selection Committee is Lisa Fishbayn Joffe (Brandeis University), Deidre Butler (Carleton University), Debra Kaufman (Northeastern University), Pnina Lahav (Boston University), and Ilana Szobel (Brandeis University).

2022-23 Committee Members

  • Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College

  • Joyce Antler, Brandeis University
  • Laura Arnold Leibman, Reed College
  • Lynne Avadenka, Independent
  • Orit Avishai, Fordham University
  • Monique Balbuena, University of Oregon
  • Judith Baskin, University of Oregon (emerita)
  • Judith Baumel Schwartz, Bar Ilan University
  • Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Eva Bellin, Brandeis University
  • Lihi Ben Shitrit, University of Georgia
  • Aviva Ben-Ur, University of Massachusetts
  • Mara Benjamin, Mount Holyoke
  • Janet Bennion, Northern Vermont University
  • Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University (emerita)
  • Deidre Butler, Carleton University
  • Fern Chertok, Brandeis University
  • Julie Cwikel, Ben Gurion University
  • Rebecca Cypess, Rutgers University
  • Galeet Dardashti, New York University
  • Hasia Diner, New York University
  • David Ellenson, Brandeis University
  • Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Brandeis University
  • Janet Freedman, Brandeis University
  • Michal Frenkel, Hebrew University
  • Sylvia Fuks Fried, Brandeis University
  • Abigail Gilman, Boston University
  • Jennifer Glaser, University of Cincinnati
  • Nora Gold, University of Toronto
  • Elizabeth Graver, Boston College
  • Rachel Gross, San Francisco State University
  • Alexandra Guerson, University of Toronto
  • Rachel Harris, University of Illinois
  • Tova Hartman, Kiryat Ono Academic College
  • Ziva Hassenfeld, Brandeis University
  • Sara Horowitz, York University
  • Rita Horváth, Yad Vashem
  • Rabbi Shirley Idelson, Brandeis University
  • Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Janet Elise Johnson, Brooklyn College
  • Norma Joseph, Concordia University
  • Robin Judd, Ohio State University
  • Judith Katz, University of Minnesota (emerita)
  • Debra Kaufman, Northeastern University (emerita)
  • Lynn Kaye, Brandeis University
  • Ellen Kellman, Brandeis University
  • Hannah Kliger, Penn State University
  • Jonathan Krasner, Brandeis University
  • Gail Labovitz, American Jewish University
  • Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University
  • Pnina Lahav, Boston University
  • Lori Lefkovitz, Northeastern University
  • Renée Levine Melammed, Schechter Institute
  • Jon Levisohn, Brandeis University
  • Laura Levitt, Temple University
  • Judith M. Lewin, Union College
  • Laura Limonic, Old Westbury SUNY
  • Sara Lipton, Stony Brook University
  • Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, Suffolk University
  • Shulamit Magnus, Hebrew University
  • Bindu Malieckal, Saint Anselm College
  • Yehudah Mirsky, Brandeis University
  • Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, Sapir Academic College
  • Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia
  • Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College
  • Tahneer Oksman, Marymount Manhattan
  • Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt University
  • Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota
  • Sharon Pucker-Rivo, Brandeis University
  • Shari Rabin, Oberlin College
  • Mark Raider, University of Cincinnati
  • Michal Raucher, Rutgers University
  • Shulamit Reinharz, Brandeis University (emerita)
  • Anna Rich Abad, University of Nottingham
  • Jessica Roda, Georgetown University
  • Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University
  • Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto
  • Susan Sered, Suffolk University
  • Margalit Shilo, Bar-Ilan University
  • Sivan Shtang, Independent
  • Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto
  • Shifra Shvarts, Ben Gurion University
  • Lara Silberklang, Lesley University
  • 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, Woolf Institute
  • Liliane Targownik, Tel Aviv University
  • Miriam Udel, Emory College
  • Shayna Weiss Brandeis University
  • Jenna Weissman Joselit, George Washington University
  • Beth Wenger, University of Pennsylvania
  • Tanya Zion Waldoks, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Linda Zisquit, Bar Ilan University (emerita)