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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.

Sven Beckert, American Jewish Economic History Working Group. photo credit: Charlie Mahoney

Sven Beckert

Presenter

Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University

Aviva Ben-Ur

Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Lila Corwin Berman

Presenter

Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History, Temple University

Marcia Chatelain

Presenter

Professor of History and African American Studies, Georgetown University

Michael Cohen

Michael R Cohen

Stuart and Suzanne Grant Professor in the American Jewish Experience, Tulane University

Marni Davis

Associate Professor of History, Georgia State

Hasia Diner

Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor

Presenter

Associate Professor of History, University of California at Davis

Roger Horowitz

Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library

Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Delaware

William Kerr

Presenter

D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Rebecca Kobrin

Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History, Columbia University

Eli Lederhendler speaking

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

Presenter

Co-Director of the Global History of Capitalism Project, Oxford University

Derek Penslar

William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University

Riv-Ellen Prell

Professor Emerita of American Studies, University of Minnesota

Shari Rabin

Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion, Oberlin College

Jessica Roitman

Jessica Roitman

Professor of Jewish Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Francesca Trivellato, American Jewish Economic Working Group at Tulane University

Francesca Trivellato

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History, Institute for Advanced Study

Min Zhou

Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, University of California Los Angeles