DS, Jewish Studies, 2017, The Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership
MA, 1992, Carnegie Mellon University
BS, 1990, Columbia University
Teaching
ENG 110
ENG 210
ENG 221
ENG 310
ENG 330
ENG 361
ENG 362
Professional experience
Selected non-fiction publications
“Changes in the Ashkanormative nature of SciFi stories,” with Valeria Frankel, in Anthology: Jewish Fantasy: International and/or Minority Cultures, Valerie Frankel, Ed. Lexington Pub., forthcoming.
“Golems in Television and Movies,” in Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream, Valerie Frankel, ed. Lexington Pub., 2022.
“Jewish Sioux Falls,” in The History of Sioux Falls, Jon Lauck and Patrick Hicks, ed., Belt Pub., 2022, forthcoming.
Jews of Missouri: an ornament to Israel. Ozarks Studies Institute, 2021.
Creating Community: The Jews of Springfield, Missouri. Greene County Historical Society, 2021
The Evolution of the Non-liturgical Parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Haggadah, deGruyter, 2017.
“Jewish Homesteader Memoir: A Woman's Story,” in Judaism and Gender, Leonard Greenspoon, ed., Purdue UP, 2021, pp. 123-134, forthcoming.
“Exploring Midwestern v. Great Plains Regional Variation By Way of the Jewish Immigrant Experience,” in Search of the Interior Borderlands: Where Does the Midwest End and the Great Plains Begin?, Jon Lauck, ed., Augustana University, 2019.
Guest Editor. OzarksWatch: The Magazine of the Ozarks — Special Issue: Documenting Jews of the Ozarks, vol. 12, no. 1&2, 1999.
Selected fiction publications
We are in Exile/Estamos en Galut, Hakadosh, 2016.
A Shout in the Sunshine, The Jewish Publication Society, 2007
Research and professional interests
American Judaism
Jewish literature
Awards and honors
Show Me Missouri: Conversations about Missouri’s Past, Present, and Future, Missouri Humanities Council. 2019-2021
Best General History, Midwest Independent Publishers Association for Search of the Interior Borderlands: Where Does the Midwest End and the Great Plains Begin?, Jon Lauck, ed. 2020
Lowenstein-Wiener Fellowship at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Cincinnati Campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH. 2008-2009
Skipping Stones Honor Award for A Shout in the Sunshine. 2008
National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature Finalist for A Shout in the Sunshine. 2007
College of Arts and Letters Award in Research. Missouri State University. 2004-2005
Marguerite R. Jacobs Fellowship at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Cincinnati Campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH. 2001-2002
College of Arts and Letters Award in Research. Missouri State University. 1998-1999