SHAUL KELNER
Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate
  Center, 2002
TITLE:   Associate Professor of Sociology
  and Jewish Studies
OFFICE:  201E Garland Hall
EMAIL:   s.kelner@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-875-3180
WEBSITE:  https://my.vanderbilt.edu/shaulkelner/
CV: ShaulKelnerCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

Honorable Mention, ASA Culture Section's Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, 2011

Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, for Tours That Bind, 2010

Research Scholar Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2008

Venture Fund Grant for Creativity in Curricular and Pedagogical Approaches College of Arts and Science Dean's Office, Vanderbilt University, 2006

Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2004

Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Judaic Studies, 1995-1999

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

  Tourism, Culture & Place (SOC 218)
  Introduction to Social Research (SOC 211)
  Research Practicum (SOC 212)
  Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)

  Social Movements in Modern Jewish Life (JS 252)
  Major Themes in Jewish Studies (JS 245)
  World Jewish Communities in the New Millennium (JS 158)
  American Jewish Life (JS 155)


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociology of Culture
Social Movements & Cultural Change
Sociology of Tourism and Travel
Sociology of Jewish Communities
Diasporas and Collective Identity
Ritual
Philanthropy
Social Networks
Theory

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Homeland Tourism and Diasporic Identities: Israel and American Jews
The Transnational Movement to Free Soviet Jews: 1964-1991
Environmental Activism in Israel
Philanthropic Foundations and Leadership Development

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Kelner, Shaul. 2011. "In Its Own Image: Independent Philanthropy and the Cultivation of Young Jewish Leadership," Chapter 7 in Jack Wertheimer, ed., The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Pp. 261-321.

Kelner, Shaul. 2011. "The Bureaucratization of Ritual Innovation: The Festive Cycle of the American Soviet Jewry Movement," Jewish Cultural Studies 3:360-391.

Kelner, Shaul. 2010. Tours that Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage and Israeli Birthright Tourism. New York: New York University Press.

Kelner, Shaul and George Sanders. 2009. " Beyond the Field Trip: Teaching Tourism through Tours," Teaching Sociology 37 (2): 136-150.

Kelner, Shaul. 2008. "Ritualized Protest and Redemptive Politics: Cultural Consequences of the American Mobilization to Free Soviet Jewry," Jewish Social Studies 14 (3): 1-37.

Sasson, Theodore and Shaul Kelner. 2008. " From Shrine to Forum: Masada and the Politics of Jewish Extremism," Israel Studies, 13(2): 146-163.