SHAUL KELNER
Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate
  Center, 2002
TITLE:  Assistant Professor of Sociology
  and Jewish Studies
OFFICE: 201C Garland Hall
EMAIL:   s.kelner@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-322-7506
CV: ShaulKelnerCV.pdf

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

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:

  Sociology of Contemporary Jewish Life (JS 155)
  Major Themes in Jewish Studies (JS 245)
  Social Movements in Modern Jewish Life (JS 252)
  Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)
  Tourism, Culture & Place (SOC 218)


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociology of Jewish Communities
Social Movements & Cultural Change
Tourism
Culture
Religion
Social Networks
Theory

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Tourism and Diasporic Identities: American Jews and Israel
The Soviet Jewry Movement in American Jewish Culture: 1964-1991
Environmental Activism in Israel

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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

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

Kelner, Shaul. 2007. "Who Is Being Taught? Jewish Early Childhood Education's Adult-Centered Approach." Chapter 3 in Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice, Jack Wertheimer, editor. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Pp. 59-79.

Kelner, Shaul and Steven M. Cohen. 2007. "Toward the Study of Community Effects on Jewish Engagement: The Case of Educational Enrollment," Chapter 9 in Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice, Jack Wertheimer, editor. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Pp. 257-274.

Benjamin Phillips and Shaul Kelner. 2006. "Reconceptualizing Religious Change: Ethno-Apostasy and Change in Religion Among American Jews." Sociology of Religion 67 (4): 507-524.