Riv-Ellen Prell

American Studies

107 Scott Hall

72 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1977
M.A.: Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1973
B.A.: Anthropology, Religious Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1970

Publications

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Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation. Beacon Press, Prell, Riv-Ellen, 1999.
Prayer and Community: the Havurah in American Judaism. Wayne State U Press, Prell, Riv-Ellen, 1989.
Interpreting Women's Lives: Personal Narrative and Feminist Theory. Indiana U Press, Prell, Riv-Ellen, 1989.
Women Remaking American Judaism. Wayne State U Press, Prell, Riv-Ellen, 2007.
2012 “Boundaries, Margins, and, Norms: The Intellectual Stakes in the Study of American Jewish Culture(s).” : Prell, Riv-Ellen, Contemporary Jewry, 189-204, 2011.
“A Serious Man in Situ: ‘Fear and Loathing in St. Louis Park’” : Prell, Riv-Ellen, AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, 35, 365-376, 2011.

Activities

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Chair, Academic Advisory Board: American Jewish Historical Society. 2014 - 2017
Director, Center for Jewish Studies 2013 - 2016
Chair: Department of American Studies. Fall 2004 - 2008
Fellow: Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 2003 - 2004
Editor: Perspectives, the newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies. 2003 - 2006
Bronfman Distinguished Visting Professor of Jewish Studies, College of William and Mary none - none

Awards

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National Jewish Book Award, 1989 - none
M Sklare Award for Distinguished Research, ASSJ, 2011
Scholar of the College, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2002 - 2005
Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities,, 2002 - 2003

Courses Taught

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