Founding President, WJSA

Lawrence Baron, Professor Emeritus
Department of History, San Diego State University, California
lbaron@mail.sdsu.edu

Executive Board, WJSA

Amy Shevitz, Co-President
Lecturer, Loyola University, Chicago

Joshua Furman, Conference Chair 2026
Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, Univ. of Denver

Hadar Aviram
University of California College of Law, San Francisco

Ellen Eisenberg 
Professor, Willamette University

Joel Gereboff 
Professor, Arizona State University

Ava Kahn
Independent Scholar, Berkeley, CA

Eleanor Kaufman 
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles 

Victoria Khiterer 
Professor, Millersville University

Shira Klein
Assoc. Prof., Chapman University

Alan T. Levenson
Professor, University of Oklahoma 

Timothy Pytell
Professor, California State University, San Bernardino

Roberta Sabbath
Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 

Brian S. Wilson
Professor, Sonoma State University  
 

In Memoriam