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    • AJS Committees

    Board of Directors Executive Committee

    • Robin Judd (The Ohio State University), President
    • Laura Leibman (Reed College), Vice President/Program
    • Ari Y. Kelman (Stanford University), Vice President/Membership and Outreach
    • Joel Berkowitz (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), Vice President/Publications
    • Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University), Secretary/Treasurer
    • Jeffrey Shoulson (University of Connecticut), Immediate Past President

    Program Committee

    • Laura Leibman (Reed College), chair
    • Mara Benjamin (Mount Holyoke College)
    • Beth Berkowitz (Barnard College)
    • Jonathan Branfman (Stanford University)
    • Naomi Brenner (The Ohio State University)
    • Samantha Cooper (Harvard University)
    • Natan Meir (Portland State University)
    • Jessica Roitman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
    • Nick Underwood (The College of Idaho)
    • Mary Arnstein (AJS), ex officio
    • Warren Hoffman (AJS), ex officio
    • Robin Judd (The Ohio State University), ex officio

    Governance Committee

    • David Freidenreich (Colby College), chair
    • Nina Caputo (University of Florida)
    • Jeffrey Abt (Wayne State University) board representative
    • Zev Eleff (Gratz College)
    • Mark Kligman (UCLA)
    • Elias Sacks (University of Colorado Boulder)
    • Lauren Lockshin (Touro College)
    • Max Strassfeld (University of Arizona), board representative

    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)) Committee

    • Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown University), chair
    • Ari Ariel (University of Iowa)
    • Adriana M. Brodsky (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
    • Daniela Goldfine (University of Wisconsin - River Falls)
    • Paul Gustav-Feller (Northwestern University)
    • Michelle Katz (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)
    • Chelsie May (University of Chicago)
    • Brian K. Roby (University of Michigan)
    • Ilana Szobel (Brandeis University)
    • Hannah Zaves-Greene (Sarah Lawrence College)

    Nominating Committee

    • Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh), chair
    • Glenn Dynner (Sarah Lawrence College)
    • Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University )
    • Jessica Kirzane (University of Chicago)
    • Sara Ronis (St Mary’s University), board representative
    • Anne Rothfeld (U.S. Federal Government)
    • Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale University )

    Office on Sexual Misconduct (OSM)

    OSM website

    Contingent Faculty Task Force

    Contingent Faculty Task Force Report and Recommendations: A Path Toward a More Inclusive Field

    • Adam Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town), cochair
    • Rachel Greenblatt (Brandeis University), cochair
    • Howard Apothaker
    • Beth Cohen (California State University at Northridge)
    • Barbara Krasner (William Patterson University)
    • Rhoda Seidelman (University of Oklahoma)
    • Daniel Z. Stein (Congregation B'nei Shalom)
    • Amanda Ruppenthal Stein (Carroll University)
    • Britt Tevis (University of Pennsylvania)
    • Barry Trachtenberg (Wake Forest University)