Maya Balakirsky Katz

• The Sacred Geography of Contemporary Hasidism

Sarah Bunin Benor

• Beyond Bagels and Burekas: American Jewish Language and Identity
• Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism
• Cohen, Levi, Yisrael: Jewish Names Around the World
• Jewish Languages Today: Endangered, Surviving, and Thriving

Debra Caplan

• The World of Yiddish Theater
• Jewish Theater in America Today

Judah M. Cohen

• Personalized Synagogue Musical History
• Debbie Friedman as Liturgist, Composer, and Musician
• The Cantor in American Jewish Life
• What We Can Learn from Holocaust-themed Musicals
• The Sound of Jewish Life” title to “Emerging American Jewish Sounds:  The (Intentionally) Forgotten 19th Century

David G. Dalin

• Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan
• The Extraordinary “RBG”: The Life and Legal Career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish Woman on the U.S. Supreme Court
• The Presidents of the United States: From FDR to Donald Trump
• Baseball’s Greatest Jewish Superstars: Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax

Deborah Dash Moore

• Urban Origins of American Judaism
• Jewish New York

Lynn R. Davidman

• The Whitening of the Jewish Immigrants
• Stories of Leaving Hasidic Life
• Tensions Between Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Jewish Life

Nathaniel Deutsch

• The rise of Haredi Judaism and the Future of the Jewish People
• The Status of Women in Contemporary Haredi Communities
• The Role of Minhag (custom) in the Creation of Modern Jewish Movements

Matt Goldish

• Screening of the Melton Center film, “The Other Men in Black: The Hasidic Movement Yesterday and Today,” with discussion

Samuel Heilman

• American Orthodoxy: Sliding to the Right?
• Jews and the Presidential Elections
• Lubavitchers, the Mission and the Rebbe
• How Did Fundamentalism Infiltrate Modern Orthodoxy?
• The Future of American Judaism
• Religious Fundamentalism
• Hastening the Messiah: Jewish Messianism Today
• Hasidism in America
• When A Jew Dies: The Ethnography of Jewish Death
• The Writing on the Wall: Jewish Brooklyn and Queens as seen in Posters

Debra Renee Kaufman

• Telling Our Stories and Creating Ourselves: Jewish Identity in the Making
• Beyond Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: Can You Still Be Jewish?
• What Place the Holocaust Has in Contemporary Identity Narratives among 20- to 30-Year-Old Non-Descendents in the US and Israel
• ‘Doing Justice’ and Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity among Millenials
• Making the Secular Sacred: Post-Holocaust Narratives and Jewish Identity
• Better the Devil You Know: Feminist Women, Orthodoxy, and Choice
• Ba’alot Teshuvah: Revivalists or Traditionalists?
• Paradoxical Practices and Newly Orthodox Jewish Women
• Re-imaging/Imagining Pew’s 2016 Portrait of Orthodoxy
• The Jewish Future Isn’t What It Used to Be: Jewish but Not by Religion

Shaul Kelner

• American Jews: A Changing Community

Josh Lambert

• “Strange Times to Be a Jew”: American Jewish Literature in the 21st Century
• “Are Jews Pornographers?”: Obscenity and Jews in America, from the Comstock Laws to Sarah Silverman
• Jewish Literature as Conspiracy
• What can we learn from American Jewish Fiction?

Laura Leibman

• The History of Multiracial Jews in the Americas

James Loeffler

• A Long Tradition?: How Jewish Lawyers Remade International Law and Reinvented Jewishness

Howard Lupovitch

• Does Judaism have a Diversity Requirement?
• Israelis and American Jews: Do We still Speak the Same Language?

Ted Merwin

• Mixed Blessings: Jewish-Christian Intermarriage in American Comedy
• Between the Sheets: Sex in Jewish Culture

David N. Myers

• American Shtetl: Kiryas Joel, New York

Pamela S. Nadell

• The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Out of Tragedy Comes Social Justice
• Tevye’s Daughters in America
• Blacks and Jews; Struggles in the American Promised Land
• Telling the American Jewish Story on Independence Mall: The National Museum of American Jewish History
• “Giving Our All the Poor Soldiers”: Jewish Women and the Civil War
• Women Who Would Be Rabbis: The Battle for Women’s Ordination
• Yentl: From Yeshiva Boy to Syndrom
• ‘The Synagog shall Hear the Call of the Sister’: The History of Synagogue Sisterhoods

Vanessa Ochs

• New Jewish Ritual
• Women of the Wall
• The Jewish Wedding

Riv-Ellen Prell

• Is the First Amendment Good for American Jews: Religious Freedom on the College Campus and in the Culture
• What is New About American Jewish Culture in the 21st Century?
• Baby Boomers and their Jewish Summer Camps: The Making of a Cultural Revolution

Jonathan Sarna

• Looking Ahead: American Judaism in the 21st Century

Shuly Rubin Schwartz

• Baskin-Robbins Has 31 Flavors – How About American Judaism?
• From Jewess Jeans to Juicy JAPs: Clothing and Jewish Stereotypes
• Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: The Evolution of American Jewry

Leonard Saxe

• Taglit-Birthright Israel/Engaging Jewish Young Adults with Israel and their Jewish Identity
• The Size and Character of the American Jewish Population/Is the U.S. Jewish Community Assimilating Away?
• The Jewish Future in America: Musings of Social Scientist

Ilan Troen

• Comparing America and Israel; Or, Can/should Israel be Americanized?