Areas of Research/Interest: American Jewish history, American immigration history and women's history.

Affiliated with other departments or programs: Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History.

Fellowships/Honors: Senior Post-doctoral Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Research, Princeton University, 2002 – 2003, Nominee, James Beard Award, “Writing About Food” category, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Harvard University Press, 2001), Fellow, American Academy of Jewish Research (elected), Member, Society of American Historians (elected), One of twenty living women historians included in American Women Historians. 1700-1900s (New York: Greenwood Press, 1998), Jennifer Scanlon and Sharon Cosner, eds.

Select Publications:

The Jews of the United States, 1645 to 2000 (Berkeley,CA:University of California Press, 2004)

Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 2002)

Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the

Present (with Beryl Lieff Benderly) (New York: Basic Books, 2002)

The Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America. (Princeton:Princeton University Press, 2000.)

American Jews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).(Part of a series for young readers) -Reissued, 2003, as A New Promised Land: A History of the Jews in America.

In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks. 1915-1935 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995; reissue of 1977 edition)

A Time for Gathering. 1820-1880: The Second Migration, Vol. 2 in, The Jewish People in

America, Henry B’eingold, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)

Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,1984)