Stefanie Siegmund is an historian of early modern Italian Jewry. A Mellon Fellow and NEH recipient, she taught at the University of Florida (1995-1998), at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (1998-2008), and at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York (2008-present). Her study of the ghetto of Florence (Stanford, 2006) was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize by the American Historical Association and the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History by the Society for Italian Historical Studies (2007).

Liora Malka Yellin is a dance and theater studies scholar at Tel Aviv University. She serves as the head of the Israeli Society for Dance Research. Her research concentrates on early Israeli theatrical dance, from its inception in the 1920s up to the late 1950s. Currently she is writing a book on Gertrud Kraus, her life and work both in Europe and in Israel.

Dory Fox is a doctoral candidate in the University of Michigan’s department of English Language and literature. Her dissertation focuses on Jewish American literature and the cultural impact of biological thinking in the twentieth century.

Dr. Sarah Lightman co-curated Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, an internationally touring exhibition of eighteen comics artists. She edited the first book on Jewish women and comics, the multi-award-winning Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (McFarland, 2014). Her first graphic novel is The Book of Sarah (Myriad Editions and Penn State University Press, 2019).

Judith R. Cohen is a Canadian ethnomusicologist, medievalist, and performer, specializing in music of Sephardic Jews, music among the Crypto-Jews of Portugal, and related topics. The latter include medieval music; music of the Balkans, Francophone Canada, Spain and Portugal; and pan-European balladry. She combines research and fieldwork with singing, storytelling, and leading workshops in several countries.

Veronica Belling was the Jewish Studies Librarian at the University of Cape Town Libraries for 31 years (1981-2012). She is currently an Honorary Research Associate attached to the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town. She holds a Masters in Jewish Civilization and a Doctorate in Historical Studies and is the author and translator from Yiddish to English of several scholarly books and articles.

Ashley L. Bacchi, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Ancient Mediterranean Religions at Starr King School for the Ministry. Her areas of specialization include interdisciplinary work in Second Temple Judaism and Classics with a particular focus on the pseudepigrapha, gender and sexuality discourse, ancient intertextuality, and political commentary. She is the author of Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles: Gender, Intertextuality, & Politics.

Steven Kaplin is working toward a Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Indiana University. His research is focused on American Judaism after World War II, particularly Jewish feminist and neo-Hasidic spirituality.

Gail Labovitz is Professor of Rabbinic Literature at the American Jewish University, where she teaches for the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. She is the author of Marriage and Metaphor: Constructions of Gender in Rabbinic Literature (Lexington Books, 2009) and the forthcoming volume on tractate Moed Qatan for the Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud, as well as numerous articles, chapters, and reviews. Her areas of academic interest include rabbinic literature, Jewish law, and gender theory.

Caryn Tamber-Rosenau is instructional assistant professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies. She is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible with a special interest in women and gender in the Bible and Second Temple literature. She is the author of Women in Drag: Gender and Performance in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature (Gorgias, 2018).

Brett Ashley Kaplan Directs the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies and is Professor and Conrad Humanities Scholar in the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her first books, Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation (2007) and Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory (2011), examine the Shoah’s intersections with art and space; her newest work is entitled Jewish Anxiety in the Novels of Philip Roth (2015). She is now working on a project about convergences between Jewish and black artists and writers as well as the novel Rare Stuff and an edited anthology about memory studies.

Max Strassfeld is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. He specializes in Rabbinics and Transgender Studies. His book Transing the Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

Donna Krolik Hollenberg, Professor Emerita at the University of Connecticut, has published five books, among them a biography of Denise Levertov. Her next book, a biography of the poet H.D., is forthcoming from the University Press of Florida.

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 the Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Stanford University, where he researches how Jewish media stars portray race, gender, and sexuality. 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 22 languages. Jonathan thanks Kate Bornstein for her support of You Be You, which helped the book to find a press.