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Riv-Ellen Prell

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Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

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

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Anthropology, University of Chicago, none.
  • M.A.: Anthropology, University of Chicago, none.
  • B.A.: Anthropology, Religious Studies, University of Southern California, none.

Publications

  • Gender, Class and Jewishness: New Approaches to the Study of Identity. Prell, Riv-Ellen, 2001.
  • Communities of Choice and Memory: Conservative Synagogues in the Late Twentieth Century. Prell, Riv-Ellen, 2000.
  • Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation. Prell, Riv-Ellen, Beacon Press, 1999.
  • Prayer and Community: the Havurah in American Judaism. Prell, Riv-Ellen, Wayne State U Press, 1989.
  • Interpreting Women's Lives: Personal Narrative and Feminist Theory. Prell, Riv-Ellen, Indiana U Press, 1989.

Professional Activities

  • Bronfman Distinguished Visting Professor of Jewish Studies, College of William and Mary
  • Board of Directors: Association for Jewish Studies
  • Fellow: Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania , 2003 - 2004
  • Editor: Perspectives, the newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies , 2003
  • Chair: Department of American Studies , Fall 2004

Awards

  • National Jewish Book Award, 1989

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
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