Scholarship and Biography
Shulamit Reinharz, Ph.D., is the Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology as well as the Founder and Director of three units at Brandeis: The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (est. 1997), the Women's Studies Research Center (est. 2001), and the Kniznick Gallery for Feminist Art (est. 2001). She supervises all internal programs including the WSRC Student Scholar Partnership Program; the HBI Summer Internship Program; the HBI Artist-in-Residence Program; the HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law; and HBI Project on Children, Families and the Holocaust; as well as several book series and the journal Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues. In 2001, she opened the physical facility in which all of these activities take place, in a 10,000 square foot section of the Epstein Building, a facility she designed and for which she raised all the funds. As a sociologist, Reinharz is a frequent lecturer, and a publisher of books, chapters, articles and reviews.
She currently is the co-p.i. on a project in Israel concerned with government mandated advocates for women in all municipalities.