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Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, PhD
Political Science, Quantitative Methods, Sociology
Poverty and Economic Vulnerability; Social and Political Cohesion and Division; Evaluation Research
United States
Senior Director
Rosov Consulting
Laurence Kotler-Berkowitz, PhD, is Senior Director at Rosov Consulting. His academic and communal research has covered topics in the sociology, demography, and political and economic behavior of contemporary Jews, especially in the United States.
Matthew Boxer, PhD
Demography, Jewish Education, Social psychology, Sociology
Altruism, Antisemitism, Israel/Zionism, Qualitative methods, Quantitative methods, Small Jewish communities
Israel/Palestine, United States
Assistant Research Professor
Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
Sociologist/social psychologist of religion, education, race/ethnicity, demography, and contemporary Jewish life.
Sarah Bunin Benor, PhD
Jewish Education, Linguistics, Qualitative Methods
United States
Vice Provost, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Linguistics
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
Dr. Benor, Vice Provost and Professor at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Linguistics. She has written several books and many articles about American Jewish language and culture.
Harriet Hartman, PhD
Sociology
Gender, Family, Jewish identity, Immigration, Transnationalism
Israel/Palestine, United States
Professor Emeritus
Rowan University
Professor Emeritus, Rowan University, Glassboro NJ. Editor-in-chief, Contemporary Jewry. 2019 Marshall Sklare Awardee. Currently editing book comparing Jewish families throughout the Jewish world and writing a monograph on the American Jewish Family.
Judit Bokser Liwerant, PhD
Antisemitism, Israel/Zionism, Jewish Education, Political Science, Qualitative Methods, Sociology
Political Sociology, Contemporary Jewry, Latin American Jewry, Globalization, Transnationalism, Israel-Diaspora Relations, Collective Identities.
Latin America
Senior Full Time Professor of Political Science
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
President of the ASSJ.
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Co-editor of the Book Series Jewish Identities in a Changing World and the Encyclopedia of Latin American Jews, Brill.
Dani Kranz, PhD
Anthropology, History, Small Jewish Communities, Social Psychology, Sociology
Europe, Israel/Palestine
Professor
El Colegio de Mexico
Dani Kranz is DAAD Humboldt Chair at Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, and an applied anthropologist and director of Two Foxes Consulting, Germany and Israel.