Rachel Gordan

  Postdoctoral Fellow

  American Jewish Religion and Culture
  Office: Crowe Hall 4-145, 1860 Campus Drive

  Phone: (847) 491-3080
  E-Mail: rachel.gordan@northwestern.edu

  Office Hours: Thursdays 2-3:30pm or

  by appointment (Winter 2012)

 

 

Rachel Gordan studies religion and American culture, focusing on American Judaism. She received her BA in American Studies from Yale, and a Masters from Yale Divinity School. Rachel received her PhD from Harvard’s Committee on the Study of Religion. Her research and teaching interests include: the history of Judaism, the religious identity of minority groups in America, and religion and the novel.  Rachel’s dissertation, Post-WWII American Judaism: How Judaism Became an American Religion focused on the immediate postwar years as a time when a new American Judaism was created as a result of changes in world Jewry and cultural shifts in Cold War America. She is currently revising this research into a book manuscript.

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January 6, 2012