Online voting for this year's slate of board nominees to the AJS Board is now open.
You are being asked to vote on the slate for seven new Directors to replace the seven Directors (out of a total of 18) leaving the Board in December 2024. This slate was assembled by the AJS Nominations Committee from names submitted by the membership.
The slate was assembled with an eye to ensuring the diversity of the AJS leadership according to such measures as rank, gender, institution, career/professional status, geographic location, and more.
We would like to thank the nominating committee for their work in shaping this year's slate:
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)
As in past years, the slate can be voted either "up" or "down" in its entirety and votes cannot be placed for or against individual members. Voting will end on October 31. Results will be announced in the following weeks.Please note that to access the ballot, you will be required to sign in to your MyAJS account. This ensures that only current members vote in the election and that each member votes only once. While the system requires you to login with your username, the voting itself is completely anonymous.
Directors to the Board for a three-year term that would run December 2024–December 2027:
Elisheva Baumgarten is the Yitzhak Becker Professor and teaches medieval history in the Departments of History and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently the academic head of the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in Humanities at HUJI.
Jodi Eichler-Levine is the Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization and director of the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University, with expertise in the fields of Jewish American studies, North American religions, and popular culture.
Alexandria (Xandy) Frisch is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at George Mason University and is currently a Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Phil Lieberman* is Professor of Jewish Studies and Law, Professor of Islamic Studies and History, Professor of Religious Studies, and Chair and Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, at Vanderbilt University. He is currently on military leave in the Department of History at the United States Naval Academy.
Bryan K. Roby is an Associate Professor of Jewish and Middle Eastern History at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. He currently heads the AJS Scholars of Color Fellowship Program.
Adam Shear is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh. He has served AJS as co-editor of AJS Review, as a division chair, and on the nominating and the dissertation fellowship committees.
Alan Verskin is the Samuel J. Zacks Chair of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. He researches the history of the Jews of the Islamic world.
*To replace Ariel Berger for the remainder of her term on the Board (December 2024-December 2026)
