Riv-Ellen Prell

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses Taught

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.
• M.A.
• B.A.

Specialties

• anthropology of America
• popular culture in the United States
• gender and ethnicity in the United States
• cultural studies of American Jews and Judaism

Publications

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Publications

• 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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Activities

Bronfman Distinguished Visting Professor of Jewish Studies, College of William and Mary

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none - none

Fellow

Wed, 01/01/2003 - 12:00 - Thu, 01/01/2004 - 12:00

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2003 - 2004

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Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Editor

Wed, 01/01/2003 - 12:00 - Sun, 01/01/2006 - 12:00

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2003 - 2006

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Perspectives, the newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies

Chair

Wed, 09/01/2004 - 12:00 - Tue, 01/01/2008 - 12:00

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Fall 2004 - 2008

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Department of American Studies

Director, Center for Jewish Studies

Tue, 01/01/2013 - 12:00 - Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:00

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2013 - 2016

Chair, Academic Advisory Board

Wed, 01/01/2014 - 12:00 - Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:00

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2014 - 2017

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American Jewish Historical Society

Awards

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Awards

National Jewish Book Award

Sun, 01/01/1989 - 12:00

1989 - none

M Sklare Award for Distinguished Research, ASSJ

Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:00

2011

Scholar of the College, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

Tue, 01/01/2002 - 12:00 - Sat, 01/01/2005 - 12:00

2002 - 2005

Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities,

Tue, 01/01/2002 - 12:00 - Wed, 01/01/2003 - 12:00

2002 - 2003

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

AmSt 8801 - Dissertation Seminar

AmSt 3252 - Politics in Popular Culture in the U.S. 1900-1945

JwSt 2363/WoSt 3403 - Jewish Women in America

Anth 5131 - Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion

Historical Foundations in American Studies

American Studies Senior Seminar