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 Sharon Gillerman, Ph.D. Director of the Edgar F. Magnin School of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of Jewish History 
Sharon Gillerman is Associate Professor of Jewish History on the Los Angeles campus and adjunct Associate Professor of History in the department of History at the University of Southern California. Her publications focus on early twentieth-century Jewish history with particular emphasis on gender, the body, Jewish identity and popular culture in the interwar period. Professor Gillerman's first book, Germans into Jews: Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic (Stanford University Press, 2009) reconsiders the meaning and process of assimilation by focusing on communal efforts to reinvigorate the Jewish community through strengthening the family, welfare, and increasing reproduction. Presently, she is writing a book on the performances and reception of the popular Polish Jewish circus strongman and vaudeville star Zishe (Siegmund) Breitbart in eastern Europe, central Europe, and the United States. In addition to teaching at HUC-JIR and USC, Professor Gillerman has also taught at Brandeis University, UCLA, the University of Hamburg, and Harvard University
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