Cynthia Saltzman

Cynthia Saltzman is a lecturer in anthropology at Rutgers University, Camden. She has been a postdoctoral fellow in Judaic studies at Yale, doing research on feminism and Judaism. She has also been a visiting assistant professor at Barnard College and Columbia University and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies of Yale University. Saltzman received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and is currently turning her dissertation, “Women, Unions, and Yale,” into a book.

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