Initiative: Working Group

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 entrepreneurship, economic niches, and consumption.

Participating Scholars

Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience

Tulane University

Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University

Harvard University

Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Lila Corwin Berman

Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History

Temple University

Marcia Chatelain

Professor of History and African American Studies

Georgetown University

Associate Professor of History

Georgia State

Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History

New York University

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor

Associate Professor of History

University of California at Davis

Professor of History and Jewish Studies

University of Delaware

D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration

Harvard Business School

Eli Lederhendler

Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions

Hebrew University Jerusalem

Adam Mendelsohn

Associate Professor in Historical Studies

University of Cape Town

Rowena Olegario

Co-Director of the Global History of Capitalism Project

Oxford University

William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History

Harvard University

Riv-Ellen Prell

Professor Emerita of American Studies

University of Minnesota

Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion

Oberlin College

Jessica Roitman

Professor of Jewish Studies

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Francesca Trivellato

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History

Institute for Advanced Study

Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies

University of California Los Angeles

Associate Professor of American Jewish History

Columbia University