- Initiative: Working Group
American Jewish Economic History Working Group
Read more about the twelve scholars and outside specialists participating in our American Jewish Economic History Working Group. The invited presenters have led discussions on gender, capitalism, race, immigrant entrepreneurship, economic niches, and consumption.
Participating Scholars
Michael Cohen
Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience
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Tulane University
Sven Beckert
Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University
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Harvard University
Aviva Ben-Ur
Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
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University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Lila Corwin Berman
Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History
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Temple University
Marcia Chatelain
Professor of History and African American Studies
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Georgetown University
Marni Davis
Associate Professor of History
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Georgia State
Hasia Diner
Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History
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New York University
Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor
Associate Professor of History
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University of California at Davis
Roger Horowitz
Professor of History and Jewish Studies
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University of Delaware
William Kerr
D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration
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Harvard Business School
Eli Lederhendler
Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions
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Hebrew University Jerusalem
Adam Mendelsohn
Associate Professor in Historical Studies
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University of Cape Town
Rowena Olegario
Co-Director of the Global History of Capitalism Project
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Oxford University
Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History
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Harvard University
Riv-Ellen Prell
Professor Emerita of American Studies
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University of Minnesota
Shari Rabin
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion
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Oberlin College
Jessica Roitman
Professor of Jewish Studies
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Francesca Trivellato
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History
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Institute for Advanced Study
Min Zhou
Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies
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University of California Los Angeles
Rebecca Kobrin
Associate Professor of American Jewish History
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Columbia University
