Charles Hersch is Professor of Political Science at Cleveland State University.  He is the author of three books, including Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan (1997), Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans (2007), and Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity (2017), as well as numerous articles.   

Henia Rottenberg is a senior lecturer at the Department of Theatre Studies, Western Galilee College, Israel, and lectures at Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel. Her research interests are history and aesthetics of theatrical dance in Israel and the dialogue between dance and visual arts in postmodern culture. Rottenberg is one of the founders of The Israeli Society for Dance Research (2012). Her last published co-edited book is Moving Through Contact: Dance and Politics in Israel (Routledge, 2019).

Helen K. Kim is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean at Whitman College. She is co-author, with Noah S. Leavitt, of JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest Jews (University of Nebraska Press, 2016).

Chelsie May received their PhD from the University of Chicago's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. They held a Frankel Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year for their dissertation "Watching Whiteness Work?: The Racialization of Jewish Women in Iraq and Israel/Palestine." In the 2021-2022 academic year, Chelsie will be a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. Their research and teaching interests include gender and race in the modern Middle East, Middle East history, and intersectionality.

Dr. Yael Munk is a senior lecturer at the Open University of Israel. She has published extensively on Israeli cinema and culture with an emphasis on women. She has published numerous articles on the subject in Hebrew, French, English, and German.

Margarita Tortajada Quiroz, PhD, is a researcher at the José Limón National Center for Research, Documentation, Information and Promotion of Dance, at Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts. The author of numerous articles and fifteen books on dance history and theory, she is a pioneer in gender studies in Mexican dance.

Michele Byers is professor of Women and Gender Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research focuses primarily on television, and she has written about many, many series over the years. She has also written about Jewish representation on TV and Jewish girlhoods in popular culture.

Marty Kelso has diverse experience as a writer. Upon graduation from the College of William & Mary, he worked in script development, including collaborations with Jane Fonda and Pierce Brosnan for Turner Network Television. As an advertising copywriter, he has partnered with such brands as Baskin-Robbins, Irwin Tools, and MetLife, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for short form writing. Marty is partner and creative director of Kelso Communications, a full-service advertising agency in Charlotte, NC.

Noam Sienna is a scholar of Jewish culture and history, focusing especially on the medieval and early modern periods, and with a particular interest in Jewish communities in the Islamic world. His first book, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 (Philadelphia: Print-o-Craft Press, 2019), collects 120 primary sources for the study of LGBTQ Jewish history, with introductions and extensive bibliography.

Lisa Traiger writes on dance and the arts from the Washington, D.C., suburbs. She has been watching Lerman’s works since the early 1980s. She edits and writes for Dance/USA’s From the Green Room, an online publication for the professional dance field, and is arts correspondent for Washington Jewish Week.

Louise Leibowitz is a doctoral student in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL. She is currently recording the oral histories of “ordinary” South African Jewish women who lived with Apartheid. She received an MA in Politics and International Relations from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2008; her MA thesis was on “The Politics of Pressure: Jewish Liberalism and Apartheid South Africa.”

Rachel Adelstein is the Managing Editor of Musica Judaica Online Reviews. She received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2013. Between 2014 and 2017, she was the Donnelley Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

Josh Lambert is the Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, and director of the Jewish Studies Program, at Wellesley College.

Ludmila Scheinkman is Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Science and Technological Research of Argentina and Assistant Professor at the History Department, University of Buenos Aires, teaching courses in General Social History, Gender History and Feminist Theory. She received her PhD in History from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2017. Her dissertation, "Female, Male and Child Labor in the Confectionary Industry in Buenos Aires in the first half of the 20th century. Work experiences, protest and daily life," won the 2019 award for the best doctoral thesis from the Argentine Association for Research in Women's History and Gender Studies.

Mónica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Her books include Women in Argentina, Early Travel Narratives; Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature, and La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff. She is the editor of the Latin American Literature in Transition series for Cambridge University Press.

Mónica Szurmuk, Senior Researcher, National Council for Science and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET); Professor of Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional de San Martín.