Faculty Guide

Jacob S. Potofsky Professor of Sociology, Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and Director of the Women's Studies Research Center

reinharz@brandeis.edu Epstein  104 781-736-2126

Expertise

Jewish women's studies. History of women in sociology. Sociology of work. Qualitative and feminist methodology.

Courses

• SOC 135a - Group Process
• USEM 50a - Jews, Gender, and Art: Ancient Routes to Comtemporary America
• WMGS 198a - Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar

Scholarship

• Reinharz, Shulamit T and Barbara Vinick. Bat Mitzvah Around the World (working title). Indiana University Press, 2008. (forthcoming)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Gender Debates in Adult Jewish Education." What we Know about Jewish Education. vol. Excerpted in "Gender Debates in Adult Jewish Education: Past and Present," Torah at the Center, Fall 2007, pp. 8-9 Ed. Paul Flexner. Torah Aura Publishers, Inc., 2008 (forthcoming)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Introductory Essay." Catalogue: Tiger by the Tail (2007). (forthcoming)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. Jewish Boys - Who are You?. Jewish Lgihts, 2007. (forthcoming)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. Observing the Observer.. Oxford University Press., 2007. (forthcoming)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T and Elinor Gadon. "Viewers' Guide to Tiger by the Tail!." 2007.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T and Esther Carmel Hakim. Putting Women on the Map of Israel
• Reinharz, Shulamit T, ed. "Women in the Visual Arts," Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. Indiana University Press, 14 2008.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Cultural Specificity and Feminist Art." Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture. Ed. Elinor Gadon, Wendy Tarlow Kaplan and Roobina Karode. New Delhi, India: (adopted in women's studies courses), 2008
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Foreword." Women in the Yishuv and State of Israel. Ed. Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo and Galit Hasan-Rokem (eds.). UPNE, 2008
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. Planner - Creating Art: Promoting Change: Works by Jewish Women. (supervisor). 2008. Waltham, MA.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T (oversight of editor Michelle Cove). "Jewish Women Donate Eggs." 614: the HBI eZine (2007)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T and Esther Carmel Hakim. "Putting Women on the Map of Israel (new website)." (2007)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T and Sylvia Barack Fishman. "Jewish Women's Transformation of Contemporary Jewish Life." Jewish People Public Policy and Planning Institute. Ed. Chaim Waxman. Jerusalem:, 2007
• Reinharz, Shulamit T and Wendy Grinberg. "excerpt from Gender Debates in Adult Jewish Education." Torah at the Core 2007.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T, ed. Jewish Women in the Economy, volume 13, Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. 2007.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T, ed. Nashim #11 (Yemenite Jewish Women). 2007.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T, ed. Nashim #12: Health and Reproduction.. 2007.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. ""Emor: Contemporary Reflections," in The Torah: A Women's Commentary, Tamara Exkenazi and Andrea Weiss, eds..
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. ""Henrietta Szold,"." Encyclopedia Judaica. 2007.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. ""My Life as a Shulamit," 614: the HBI ezine. Issue #1." (2007)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Essay about "Reading the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism," in 614: the HBI ezine, issue #2." (2007)
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Finding Our/My History: The Case of Manya Wilbushewitz Shohat." Gender, Memory and Jewish Women in Contemporary Europe. Ed. Zsuzsa Toronyi and Andrea Peto. Budapest, HUNGARY: Balassi-EszterKonyvek, 2007
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Gender Debates in Jewish Adult Education." Ed. Paul Flexner., 2007
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, edited by Heidi Hartmann and Carol Hardy-Fanta.." Rev. of Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland," by Shana Penn
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Ongoing Dilemmas." A Dream of Zion. Ed. Jeffrey Salkin., 2007
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "The Invisible Consecration of Jewish Women." Golem: europaisch-judischer Almanach 2007.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "The Jewish Quarterly Review." Rev. of The Workers¿ Health Fund in Eretz Israel: Kupat Holim, 1911-1937., by Shifra Shvartz
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry, co-edited by Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson." Nashim vol. Number 13 262-264.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T and Rachel Kulick. "Feminist Content Analysis." Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Ed. Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2006
• Reinharz, Shulamit T, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Deborah Einhorn. "The New Jewish Family.
• Reinharz, Shulamit. "Out of Sight." Boston Jewish Film Festival Program Book.. 2006.
• Reinharz,Shulamit T. The Body of Knowledge. Oxford, 2006.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "Manya Wilbushewitz-Shohat and the Winding Road to Sejera." Israeli Women's Studies. Ed. Esther Fuchs. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. "weekly column, since September 2005, several of which are reprinted or connected to blogs." The Jewish Advocate
• Reinharz, Shulamit T., with Miriam Polis. Teacher's Guide to the JGirl's Guide. Jewish Lights, 2005.
• Reinharz,Shulamit T. and and Mark Raider. American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise. UPNE, 2005.
• Reinharz,Shulamit T. with Penina Adelman and Ali Feldman. The JGirl's Guide. Jewish Lights, 2005.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T, ed. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues. Indiana University Press, 1998.
• Reinharz,Shulamit T. Feminist Methods in Social Research. Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Reinharz,Shulamit T, co-ed. Graham Rowles. Qualitative Gerontology. NY: Spring Pub Co, 1988.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T. On Becoming a Social Scientist. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1984.
• Reinharz,Shulamit T, with K. Heller, R. Price, S. Riger, A. Wandersman. Psychology and Community Change. Homewood IL: Dorsey Press, 1984.
• Reinharz, Shulamit T.. Becoming a Social Scientist: From Survey Research and Participant Obseration to Experiential Analysis. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1979.