Featured speakers:
Shaina Judith Hammerman &
Jonathan Branfman
Shaina Hammerman is the associate director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University. A cultural historian, she is the author of Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story of an Image (Indiana UP, 2018) among other publications on Jews and race, gender, and popular culture. Hammerman holds an MA in Jewish Studies and a PhD in Jewish History and Culture from the GTU.
Jonathan Branfman is a Research Associate in the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for Jewish Gender Studies at Brandeis University. He researches Jewish identity and antisemitism in US popular culture, including film, television, and digital media. Before coming to Brandeis, Jonathan was the Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Stanford University. He has also previously held visiting assistant professorships at Cornell University and the College of William & Mary. Jonathan's first monograph came out in June with New York University Press, titled Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy.