Shulamit Reinharz | |
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Born | Shulamit Tirzah Rothschild 1946 (age 77–78) Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Occupation | academic |
Years active | 1970–2017 |
Shulamit Reinharz (born 1946) was the Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University until 2017. During her tenure at Brandeis, she was director of the women's studies program from 1991 to 2001 and launched The Scholars Program, the first graduate program to focus on Jewish women. She was the founding director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in 1997 and founder and director of the Women's Studies Research Center in 2001.