Steven Windmueller, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Studies
Contact Information
school/program: Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management
academic field: Contemporary Jewish Studies, Professional Development
campus: Los Angeles
Most of Steven’s writings can be found in connection with these three publications:
- https://jewishjournal.com/author/steven-windmueller/
- https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/authors/steven-windmueller-ph-d/
- https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/steven-windmueller/
Books
You Shall Not Stand Idly By: A Jewish Community Relations Workbook, 2004, American Jewish Committee, NY.
(Co-authored with Gerald Bubis) From Predictability to Chaos: How American Jewish Leaders reinvented their National Communal System (2005)
The Quest for Power: A Study in Jewish. Political Behavior and Practice (2014)
In This Time, In This Place: American Jewry 3.0 (2014)
The Impact of Donald Trump’s Presidency on American Jewry and Israel (2021)
- Why Here, Why Now: Anti-Semitism in a Post October 7th World
- Our New Reality: How the Gaza Conflict Has Changed Israel and American Jewry
- American Jewish Political Behavior: The 2024 Elections and the Jewish Voter
- 21st Century American Judaism: What It Will Look Like and Why?
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, International Relations, 1972
M.A., University of Cincinnati, Political Science, 1966
Dr. Steven Windmueller is an Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Studies at the Jack H. Skirball Campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Prior to coming to HUC, Dr. Windmueller had served on the staff of the American Jewish Committee (1969-1972), directed the Albany (NY) Jewish Federation (1973-1985), and the JCRC (Jewish Community Relations Committee) of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation (1985-1995).
During his tenure at the College, Dr. Windmueller served for ten years as the Director of its School of Jewish Nonprofit Management and in 2005 was named to the deanship of the LA campus (2006-2010). In 2009 he was named to an endowed chair and in 2014 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hebrew Union College.
The author of four books and numerous articles, Professor Windmueller holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. His research has been primarily focused on Jewish communal trends, anti-Semitism, and Jewish political behavior. His articles have appeared in a number of secular and Jewish publications.
Currently, Dr. Windmueller is consulting with national agencies, federations, synagogues, and foundations in connection with his current studies on virtual and privatized Judaism, the impact of COVID, and the broader social, economic and political trends reshaping American Jewish life.
In 2014, he had occasion to teach in China offering lectures on American Jewry, Israel and Zionism at various universities in the Peoples Republic.
He recently served as guest editor for USC’s Casden Institute, producing The Impact of Donald Trump’s Presidency on American Jews and Israel, (2021) and is now focused on producing a volume analyzing 21st Century American Judaism and continues to write on Jewish political behavior for the Times of Israel and other publications in advance of the November 2024 elections.
Dr. Windmueller serves as a Fellow of the Jerusalem Institute of Public Affairs and as a Board Member of the Pat Brown Institute at Cal State, Los Angeles. For the past eight years, he has been on the faculty of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, teaching across the globe.