Rachel Kranson

Director of Jewish Studies
Professor
  • University of Pittsburgh

Rachel Kranson is the director of Jewish studies and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America (University of North Carolina Press, 2017, finalist for best first book by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society) and co-editor of A Jewish Feminine Mystique: Jewish Women in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2010, Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award.) Kranson’s current book manuscript, Religious Misconceptions, focuses on American Jews and the politics of abortion. For this work, she has been awarded research fellowships at the Frankel Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University. Kranson serves on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Women’s Archive, the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, and the program committee of the Tree of Life Center, the museum that will be established at the site of the 10/27 synagogue shooting. 

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