Rachel Kranson

Rachel Kranson is the Director of Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the co-editor of A Jewish Feminine Mystique: Jewish Women in Postwar America (2010, National Jewish Book Award Finalist) and author of Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America (2017, First Book Award Finalist, Immigration and Ethnic History Society). In the Spring 2024 semester, she is serving as a scholar-in-residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.