Online proxy voting is now open for this year's slates of board nominees and executive committee members to the AJS board. While the actual election will take place on Dec. 20 at 12 PM at the conference, this process allows you to cast your proxy vote in advance.
This slate was assembled by the AJS’s nomination committee from names submitted by the membership and 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.
As in past years, the slate can be voted either "up" or "down" in their entirety and votes cannot be placed for or against individual members on a slate. Voting will end on October 30.
We would like to thank the nominating committee for their work in shaping this year's slate.
Nominees for a three-year term that would run December 2026–December 2029:
Yaron Ayalon is Professor of Religious Studies and Carl and Dorothy Bennett Chair of Judaic Studies at Fairfield University
Naomi Brenner is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University, focusing on modern Hebrew and Yiddish literatures.
Jessica Cooperman is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair in Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, and Co-director of the Laboratory for the Study and Prevention of Global Antisemitism at the University of Connecticut.
Mostafa Hussein is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, specializing in Israel-Palestine and the neighboring Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East (19th–21st centuries), with a focus on the subfield of Jewish-Arab/Muslim Studies.
Aleksandra Jakubczak is a senior historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Jessica Roda is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist and Associate Professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University.
Nominee to complete two years of a three-year term that would run December 2026–December 2028:
Markus Krah, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, is Executive Director of the Leo Baeck Institute New York I Berlin.
