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

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

• James Bunton
• Leslye Friedberg
• Slava Greenberg (University of Southern California)
• Daniel Magilow (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
• Oded Nir (Queens College, CUNY)

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

Nominating Committee

• Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh), chair
• Glenn Dynner (Fairfield University)
• 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 )

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

Scholars of Color Mentoring Fellowship Steering Committee

• Helen Kim (Whitman College), chair
• Kirsten Fermaglich (Michigan State University)
• Bryan Roby (University of Michigan)
• Max Strassfeld (University of Arizona)
• Monique Balbuena (University of Oregon)
• 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