Shira Schwartz

Assistant Professor, Phyllis Backer Professor of Jewish Studies
Religion
Jewish Studies Minor / Modern Jewish Studies
Research Interests
Rabbinic Judaism, American Jewish Orthodoxy and ex-Orthodoxy (OTD) Studies, Queer/Trans and Feminist Religious Studies, Textual and Hormonal Ethnography, Jewish Education, Learning Spaces and Learning Bodies
Honors and Awards
2019-2020 Richard & Lillian Ives Graduate Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan; Holstein Dissertation Fellow in Queer/Transgender Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside