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

• Ari Ariel (University of Iowa), chair
• 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))

Program Committee

• Helen Kim (Whitman College), chair
• Mara Benjamin (Mount Holyoke College)
• Emilie Amar-Zifkin (McGill University)
• Yaron Ayalon (College of Charleston)
• Matt Boxer (Brandeis University)
• Savoy Curry (Northwestern University)
• Sheila Jelen (University of Chicago)
• Karolina Krasuska (University of Warsaw)
• Marjorie Lehman (Jewish Theological Seminary)
• Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale University)
• Laura Yares (Michigan State University)
• Mary Arnstein (AJS), ex officio
• Warren Hoffman (AJS), ex officio
• Laura Leibman (Princeton University), 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