February 27, 2025
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PT
A free in-person event held at University Place Hotel and Conference Center, 310 SW Lincoln St, Portland, OR 97201
Registration: Closed
Support this event: Make a donation to the Gus and Libby Solomon Lecture Series Endowment.
Biography:
Dr. Rachel Kranson is Director of Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. A scholar of post-WWII American Jewish history, gender, and sexuality, she is the author of Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America (2017, finalist for the Immigrant and Ethnic History Society First Book Award) and the co-editor of A Jewish Feminine Mystique: Jewish Women in Postwar America (2010, finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in women’s studies). Dr. Kranson has held fellowships at the Frankel Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, and her writing has appeared in academic journals as well as popular venues like The Washington Post, Lilith, and The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Dr. Kranson has held leadership positions at the Jewish Women’s Archive, the Center for Jewish History, the American Jewish Historical Society, and the Association for Jewish Studies. Her current book manuscript, tentatively titled Religious Misconceptions, focuses on American Jewish engagement in abortion politics during the era of Roe V. Wade.