Participant Info
- First Name
- Pamela
- Last Name
- Nadell
- Country
- United States
- State
- DC District of Columbia
- pnadell@american.edu
- Affiliation
- American University
- Website URL
- www.pamelanadell.com
- Keywords
- Jews, Judaism, U.S., America, women
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Pamela Nadell is the author of America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, published in 2019 by W.W. Norton. A professor and Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University in Washington, DC, she is a recipient of the university’s highest faculty award, Scholar/Teacher of the Year. Her other books include Women Who Would be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination, 1889-1985, a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. Past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, she has also received the American Jewish Historical Society’s Lee Max Friedman Award for distinguished service to the profession. Her consulting work for museums includes the National Museum of American Jewish History and the Library of Congress.
- Recent Publications
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today. W.W. Norton, 2019
Feminism, American Style: Jewish Women and the Making of a Revolution. University of Haifa Ruderman Program in American Jewish Studies, 2017. In English and Hebrew.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Religion
