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    • AJS Committees

    Board of Directors Executive Committee

    • Laura Leibman (Reed College), President
    • Helen Kim (Whitman College), Vice President/Program
    • Hartley Lachter (Lehigh University), Vice President/Membership and Outreach
    • Laura S. Lieber (University of Regensburg), Vice President/Publications
    • Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University), Secretary/Treasurer
    • Robin Judd (The Ohio State University), Immediate Past President

    Contingent Faculty Committee

    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)

    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)

    Film Committee

    • Jim Bunton (Des Moines Area Community College), chair
    • Daniela Goldfine (University of Wisconsin-River Falls)
    • Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University)
    • Rachel Schaff (Mercer University)

    Governance Committee

    • Elias Sacks (University of Colorado Boulder), chair
    • Monique Balbuena (University of Oregon), board representative
    • Perry Dane (Rutgers University)
    • Lauren Lockshin (Touro University)
    • Anne Rothfeld (Independent Scholar)
    • Jeffrey Wilson (Loyola Marymount University)

    Nominating Committee

    • Jason Kalman (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion), chair
    • Zachary Baker (Emeritus, Stanford University Libraries)
    • Flora Cassen (Washington University)
    • Hannah Zaves-Greene (University of Pennsylvania)
    • Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham University)
    • Adam Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town)
    • Tzvi Novick (University of Notre Dame))

    Office on Sexual Misconduct (OSM)

    OSM website

    Program Committee

    • Helen Kim (Whitman 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
    • Laura Leibman (Reed College), ex officio

    Scholars of Color Mentoring Fellowship Steering Committee

    • Bryan Roby (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor), chair
    • Lanitra Berger (George Mason University)
    • Max Strassfeld (University Southern California)
    • Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)
    • Amy Weiss (AJS), ex officio

    Task Force on Conferences

    • Beth Berkowitz (Barnard College), chair
    • Orit Avishai (Fordham University)
    • Sarah Bunin Benor (HUC-JIR)
    • Sonia Gollance (University College London)
    • Sheila Jelen (University of Kentucky)
    • Josh Teplitsky (University of Pennsylvania)
    • Mary Arnstein (AJS), ex officio