Debra Renee Kaufman
Position: Professor of Sociology and Matthews Distinguished University Professor
Degree(s): Ph.D., Cornell University
Areas of Research/Interest: Gender, Family, Professions, Feminist Studies, Religion
Selected Publications: Kaufman, Debra, Post Holocaust Identity and an Ever-Dying People: Contemporary Narratives (forthcoming, 2006); Kaufman, Debra (General Editor) The Media, The Academy and the Law; Assessing the Truth from the Protocols of Zion to Holocaust Denial. Vallentine Mitchell: London, England and Portland, Oregon (forthcoming 2005).
Kaufman, Debra Renee (Special Section Editor), Women and the Holocaust, Contemporary Jewry, 1996, Volume 17 (Annual Edition).
Kaufman, Debra, Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women, Rutgers University Press, 1991. Nominated for the Jesse Bernard Sociologists for Women in Society Award and the E.H. Cooley Social Psychology Award. Second Paperback Edition, 1993. Chapter three reprinted with introduction in Total Immersion: A Mikvah Anthology, Rivkah Slonim (ed.), Jason Aronson, Inc.: Northville, N.J., 1996.
Kaufman, Debra and Barbara Richardson, Achievement and Women: Challenging the Assumptions, New York: The Free Press, 1982. Nominated for the C. Wright Mills Award for notable contributions to sociological thought. (Received honorable mention).
External Affiliations: Eastern Sociology Society (Vice President 2004-5)
Association for the Social Scientific Study of Judaism (Editorial Board 1995-2005; Contributing Editor)
American Sociology Association
Sociologist for Women in Society
For more information go to http://www.jewishstudies.neu.edu/advisory_bios.htm#dkaufman.
Courses Taught Undergraduate:
- SOC U259 Women in Jewish Culture Description | Syllabus
- SOC U530 The Family Description | Syllabus.pdf
Courses Taught Graduate:
- SOC G302 Feminist Methodologies: New Ways of Knowing and Doing Description | SOC_G302_Syllabi_SP_2008.pdf
- SOC G256 Contemporary Issues in Sociology: Ethnic, Racial and Religious Identity Description | Syllabus