Founding President, WJSA

Lawrence Baron, Professor Emeritus
Department of History, San Diego State University, California

Executive Board, WJSA

Amy Shevitz, Co-President
Visiting Scholar, Loyola University Chicago

Seth Ward, Co-President
Senior Lecturer, University of Wyoming (retired) 

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

Hadar Aviram
University of California College of Law, San Francisco

Gilad Cohen
Graduate Student, Brandeis 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. Professor, 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 

Haim Sperber
Professor, Western Galilee College

Amie Thurber
Assoc. Professor, Portland State University, School of Social Work

Brian S. Wilson
Professor, Sonoma State University  

In Memoriam

Jody Myers (of blessed memory)
Professor, California State University, Northridge

 

Thank you for your service:

Ellen Eisenberg 
Professor, Willamette University

 

 

We Remember Our WJSA Colleagues and Friends (of blessed memory)

David Biale

Leonard Dinnerstein

David Goodblatt

Arlene Lazarowitz

David Weinberg

Seth Wolitz

 

Previous Board Members

Victoria Aarons

Jeff Demsky

Zev Garber

Marat Grinberg

Holli Levitsky

Naomi Sokoloff