Working Groups

Our working groups break down solos by bringing scholars from different disciplines into conversation on central issues that shape and frame the academic study of American Jews. Bringing scholars into the same room who wouldnt otherwise be, Grant Center working groups facilitate interdisciplinary scholarly conversations, building emerging subfields, or bringing scholars of American Jewish studies into dialogue with those outside their field.

Grant Center conferences, working groups, and symposia aim to bring people into conversation who wouldn’t otherwise be. This may include bringing academics into dialogue with practitioners, facilitating interdisciplinary scholarly conversations, building emerging subfields, or bringing scholars of American Jewish studies into dialogue with those outside their field. Roundtable discussions in Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry are intended to bring the strengths of this format to wider scholarly audiences.

Do you have an idea for a Working Group that the Grant Center can support? Please reach out to ebraunin@tulane.edu.

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 entreprenuership, economic niches, and consumption.

Michael Cohen

Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience

Tulane University

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University

Harvard University

Aviva Ben-Ur

Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

American Jewish Literature Working Group

The American Jewish Literature Working Group of the Grant Center at Tulane convened at the suggestion of Michael Cohen, and has been co-organized by Maeera Shreiber and Josh Lambert. The […]

Maeera Schreiber

University of Utah

Josh Lambert

Wellesley College

Michael Cohen

Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience

Tulane University

Building a Jewish-American Response to the Shoah, Right-Wing Zionism in the USA, Israel and Europe: FALL 2024

Our thesis is that during this key period, the Zionist Right attracted to its ranks diverse individuals with a myriad of ideologies in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Palestine. In […]

Amir Goldstein

Associate Professor

Tel Hai University

Andrew Koss

Senior Editor

Mosaic Magazine

Avi Shilon

Lecturer in History

Shazar Publishers

Jewish Caribbean Working Group

Marilyn Miller

Sizeler Family Professorship in Judaic Studies II

Tulane University

Paul B. Miller

Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian

Vanderbilt University

Sarah Phillips Casteel

Professor of English

Carleton University

Jewish Gender Performance and Drag Working Group

This Zoom-based working group aims to think through questions of how gendered representations of Jewishness and Jewish representations of gender are rendered, performed, and experienced. Guest speakers from beyond Jewish […]