Participant Info
- First Name
- Shira
- Last Name
- Kohn
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- shiramkohn@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- The Dalton School
- Website URL
- Keywords
- postwar American history, Americans jewish history, American immigration history, history of gender in America, women's history, modern Jewish history, history of higher education
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- Skohn@dalton.org
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Currently writing a book on Jewish sororities and civil rights in Cold War America. I also write on American antisemitism and debates about identity and allyship within the American Jewish community, past and present.
I also write pieces on contingent faculty and increasing the visibility of scholars who are not in tenure track positions, but stay active with teaching, scholarship and/or research.
- Recent Publications
Manuscript: Pledging Allegiance: Jewish Sororities and Civil Rights in Cold War America, manuscript in process.
Peer-Reviewed Article: “Turning German Jews into Jewish Greeks: Philanthropy and Acculturation in the Jewish Greek System’s Student Refugee Programs, 1936-1940,” American Jewish History 102, no. 4 (October 2018): 511-536.
Pedagogic Article: “Just Like Everyone Else: Jewish College Sororities and Acculturation in Mid-Century America,” Association for Jewish Studies Perspectives Magazine (Fall 2019), forthcoming.
Op-Ed: “How Jewish Frat Boys Rescued Refugees in the 1930s and Why That Matters Today,” Forward January 30, 2017.
Article: “Supporting Contingent Faculty: Concrete Suggestions,” Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter, October 2016.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Shiram19
- Country Focus
- America
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Higher Ed, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Migration & Immigration, Pedagogy, Public History, Religion, Women, World War II
