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.

Priscilla Balch received an MLS degree from the Pratt Graduate School of Library and Information Science in January 1969. She is the co-chair of the Eleanor Leff Jewish Women’s Resource Center at the National Council of Jewish Women in New York.

Michele Klein is an independent scholar. Her book, A Time to be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth (Philadelphia: JPS, 1998, 2000), won the National Jewish Book Award. She has served as guest curator at The Jewish Museum London, Bar Ilan University's Department of Jewish Art, the Judah L. Magnes Museum at Berkeley, California, and Beit Hatfutsot Museum: Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv.

Mara W. Cohen Ioannides studies American Judaism and is president of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association. She teaches in the English Department at Missouri State University.

Abigail Pogrebin is the author of Stars of David and My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award.  She moderates public conversations for the Manhattan JCC and The Streicker Center and was President of Central Synagogue in New York.

Hilary L. Rubinstein was educated at the University of Keele, England; Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania; and Simmons College, Boston. Widely published on Australian Jewish history, as well as on other historical topics, she has a PhD in History from the Australian National University and is a Fellow of the British based Royal Historical Society.

Georges Weill was born in 1934 in Strasbourg, France, and passed away in 2022. He was a specialist in archival management and in the modern history of the Jews of France, on which he  published numerous books and articles. He served as Curator in the library of the Alliance israélite universelle and as Chief Inspector of the French Archives. A former hidden child during World War II, he served as a witness to the life of his aunt Andrée Salomon. 

Dr. Taft is a Research Associate at Monash University with an interest in post-war Jewish immigration. Her publications include From Victim to Survivor: The Emergence and Development of the Holocaust Witness 1941-49 (Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2013) and A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne (Monash Publishing, Melbourne, 2018), shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards. She is currently working on a biography of community leaders Leo and Mina Fink.

Moria Ran Ben Hai’s research focuses on modern Orthodox feminism in Israel and the United States, from its inception to the present day. Her PhD dissertation sketched Professor Alice Shalvi's biography as a case study for changes in the status of women in Israel from the 1970s to 2000, focusing on the Pelech high school for religious girls and the Israel Women's Network organization. Her current study focuses on the religious feminist organizations JOFA and Kolech.

Ruth Ann Hottell holds a Ph.D. in French studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published widely on French film, literature, cultural studies, and women’s studies. She retired as Chair and Professor of French at the University of Toledo in 2018 and was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2019.

Yoel Yaari is the Henri and Erna Leir Professor for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine in Jerusalem, where he received his doctoral degree in 1975. He published numerous articles on basic molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurological diseases, particularly epilepsy. In 2017 he began also investigating Holocaust-related topics, focusing on the accounts of Jewish women serving as couriers between eastern European ghettos during World War II. He published several articles in public media about the contribution of these women to anti-Nazi Jewish resistance.

Tamar Kamionkowski is Professor of Biblical Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she also served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for almost a decade. Her books include Leviticus: A Wisdom Commentary and Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel.