Contributors
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Eileen Boris is the Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and Distinguished Professor of History, Black Studies, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes on the home as a workplace and on the racialized gendered state. Among her books are Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Caring for America: Home Care Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State, co-authored with Jennifer Klein (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019 (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Michael R. Cohen is the Sizeler Professor and chair of Jewish Studies at Tulane University. He is the author of Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era (New York University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the American Jewish Historical Society's Saul Viener Book Prize. He is also the author of The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter's Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement (Columbia University Press, 2012), as well as several articles and reviews.
Marni Davis is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University. She is the author of Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition (New York University Press, 2012), which was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. She is currently researching and writing about white-ethnic and African-American neighborhoods in twentieth-century Atlanta, and the relative impacts of redlining, urban renewal, and suburbanization upon these neighborhoods.
Tracey Deutsch is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the «Thinking Food» Imagine Chair. She is the author of Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) and several articles and essays on food politics, consumption, and capitalism.
Roger Horowitz teaches history and Jewish studies at the University of Delaware and is director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. His most recent book is Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food (Columbia University Press, 2016). Kosher USA received the National Jewish Book Award for the best book in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council, the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the history of the Jewish Diaspora from the American Historical Association, and was named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine. Horowitz has written or co-authored three earlier books about the consumption and production of food, including Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste Technology, Transformation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University. Her book Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora (Indiana University Press, 2010) was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer prize and was also a National Jewish Book finalist. She is also the editor of Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism (Rutgers University Press, 2012), and is co-editor with Adam Teller of Purchasing Power: The Economics of Jewish History (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Her forthcoming book, A Credit to the Nation: East European Immigrant Bankers and American Finance, 1870–1930 will be published by Harvard University Press in 2020.
Eli Lederhendler is the author of Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880–1920: From Caste to Class (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and American Jewry: A New History (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He is the Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Derek J. Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Modern Jewish History at Harvard University. His most recent books are Jews and the Military: A History (Princeton University Press, 2013) and Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (Yale University Press, 2020).
Riv-Ellen Prell is professor emerita of American studies at the University of Minnesota. She is a past chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the American Jewish Historical Society. She is the author or editor of, among others, Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation (Beacon...
