Natasha Zaretsky, Ph.D. is a senior lecturer at New York University and a Visiting Scholar at the Rutgers University Center for the Study of Genocide at Human Rights, where she leads the Truth in the Americas Initiative. Her latest book, Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers University Press 2021), explores memory and survival in the aftermath of genocide and political violence in Argentina. She is also currently completing a documentary film about the aftermath of the AMIA bombing in Argentina, 1000 Mondays.

Erin Auerbach is a writer with master’s degrees in theater and journalism. A former staffer at a daily newspaper, she is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Bakersfield College in California.

Dianne Ashton is a Professor of History at Rowan University. She is the author of several books, including Hanukkah in America, Rebecca Gratz: Women and Judaism in Antebellum America, and Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality (two volumes). Her upcoming book is, Crisis of Home: The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai. Her articles have appeared in many volumes.

Anne M. Blaschke is a historian of twentieth-century political culture, race, gender, capitalism, and diplomacy. She teaches at M.I.T. and the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

Janna Bernstein, M.Ed., Ph.D., is a scholar practitioner, having dual roles at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) as both administrative faculty and adjunct academic faculty. Her research utilizes racial formation theory and intersectional analysis to investigate the lived experiences of Jewish women professionals in higher education. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Cultural Studies, International Education, and Multicultural Education from UNLV and a proud double alumna of the University of Southern California (USC). Through a partnership between the University of Southern California and Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Los Angeles, CA, Dr. Bernstein was also humbled to be the first USC student to be conferred with a HUC-JIR Judaic Studies degree.

Dalia Wassner is the Director of HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina (Brill, 2014). She writes on feminist cultural connections between Jews and other minorities involved in Latin American processes of national democratization.

Jon has published widely in the areas of Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, Popular Music and on race and multiculturalism. Jon’s most recent books are, coedited with Jon Dale and with Tony Mitchell, An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements (New York: Bloomsbury, 2020, and Multiculturalism, Whiteness and Otherness in Australia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Dr. Véronique Sina is a Research Associate at the Department of Media Culture and Theatre at the University of Cologne. She obtained her PhD in Media Studies at the University of Bochum with her dissertation Comic – Film – Gender. Zur (Re-)Medialisierung von Geschlecht im Comicfilm (2016). As a postdoctoral researcher she is working in the realm of Gender and Queer Studies, Media Studies, Visual Studies, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish Cultural Studies.

Dr. Hannah Kosstrin is a dance historian and movement analyst working at the intersection of dance, Jewish, and gender studies. At The Ohio State University, she is Associate Professor in the Department of Dance and affiliate faculty with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies. Her monograph Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow (Oxford UP, 2017) was awarded Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award.

Rachel B. Tiven is a civil rights lawyer and amateur historian. She spent a decade and a half leading LGBT and immigrant rights organizations. Her 19th Amendment centennial column, Daily Suffragist, is accessible at dailysuffragist.omeka.net.

Jonathan Branfman is a Research Associate at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University. He is the author of Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy (New York University Press, 2024). To participate in the Jewish value of tikkun olam (repairing the world) beyond university classrooms, Jonathan has also published the LGBTQ children’s book You Be You: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, & Family, now translated into 25 languages, including Yiddish. Jonathan thanks Kate Bornstein for her support of You Be You, which helped the book to find a press. 

Petra Sturm studied journalism and history at the University of Vienna. She is a freelance historian and journalist and writes for Austrian and German magazines, journals and anthologies about women’s sport history. Her current research focuses on women and race-cycling.

Georg Spitaler is a researcher and curator at the Austrian Labor History Society (VGA) and serves as a lecturer at the University of Vienna. His publications include books, edited volumes and articles on labor history, political theory, and political aspects of sport.

Ela Bauer is an associate professor at Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv. She received her PhD from New York University. In 2019 she was Research Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  She researches the intellectual and cultural life of Polish Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the history of the Jewish press and the history of the Zionist movement.  

Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Department of Jewish Studies. Her books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus; Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi; four children’s books (with Sandy Sasso); The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III); and The Jewish Annotated New Testament (co-edited with Marc Z. Brettler).  Her most recent book is The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (co-authored with Marc Z. Brettler).  In 2019, she became the first Jew to teach a New Testament course at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

Cia Sautter received her doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union and is a scholar and performer. Her research and writing examine the intersection of the arts, religion, and values, with publications including The Performance of Religion: Seeing the Sacred in the Theatre and The Miriam Tradition.

Dr. Tsila Ratner was born in Israel. Formerly a lecturer in Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University, since 1995 she has taught literature and gender studies in the department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. Her main field of research is the politics of gender and migration in Hebrew women’s writings. Her book Tzena, Tzena: In and About the Dowry Box (2015) was jointly written with Hannah Naveh of Tel Aviv University. Her latest publication, “A Type of Copy: On Emigration and Immigrants in Dvora Baron’s ‘America’” (2019), was published in The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

Maurine Beasley, professor emerita at University of Maryland College Park, holds a Ph.D. in American civilization from George Washington University, and has published extensively on the history of Washington women journalists. Her most recent book is Ruby A. Black: Eleanor Roosevelt, Puerto Rico and Political Journalism in Washington (Lexington, 2017).

Joan C. Chrisler, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Connecticut College, where she taught courses on the psychology of women, social psychology, and health psychology. She is the founding editor of the feminist journal Women's Reproductive Health.

Gina Malagold is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Georgetown University. Her research has been supported by competitive grants from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fulbright Program, Association for Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies Association, Latin American Jewish Studies Association, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

Dr. Anat Feldman’s research focuses on the Shas political party, especially the women's party. Her research on the topic is unique and has been published in top academic journals. Feldman is senior lecturer at Achva Academic College.

Angelina Palmén is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation examines support for feminism and women’s rights among companies in the Berlin industry for ready-made fashion and their mostly Jewish owners and executive directors 1890–1914. Her research interests include Jewish occupational and business history, gender, women's and feminist history, and visual culture. Palmén is currently a Dr Sophie Bookhalter Graduate Fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York.

Samuel Boussion is a historian and maître de conférences in education at Paris-8 Saint Denis (CIRCEFT-HEDUC). He is a historian of education, focusing on specialized education in France and in Europe in the 20th century and in the development of medical education. He is currently researching the history of villages and republics of children in Europe immediately following World War II.