Dr. Caryn Aviv,
Director of Research
Dr. Caryn Aviv, Jewish Mosaic’s research director, is a Marsico lecturer in the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver, and academic director of the Certificate Program in Jewish Communal Service in the university’s Graduate School of Social Work. Aviv, along with David Shneer, is the author of “New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora”, published in October 2005 by New York University Press. |
Aviv and Shneer have also co-authored the forthcoming “American Queer, Now and Then” (Paradigm Publishers, 2006), and co-edited the anthology “Queer Jews” (Routledge 2002). Dr. Aviv’s new book project, entitled Peace Camps, explores gender and national identity politics in two conflict resolution programs for Israeli and Palestinian youth. She conducts research on and teaches in the areas of gender, sexuality, Zionism, Israel and contemporary Jewish cultures. Dr. Aviv is the former director of a youth leadership development initiative at San Francisco’s Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, a member of the Experiment in Congregational Education Task Force, and a former board member of the LGBT Alliance of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation. Aviv earned her Ph.D. in sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. |