Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies
Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies
College of Arts and Sciencesbrinn@hartford.edu
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
MA/MLS, Indiana University
AB, Brown University
Ayelet Brinn is a scholar of Jewish and American history whose work focuses on gender, Yiddish studies, and popular culture. Her first book, A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press was published by New York University Press in November 2023 and was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist.
In 2022, she joined the University of Hartford faculty as the Philip D. Feltman Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History and The Associate Director of the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. Previously she held fellowships at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Katz Center for Judaic Studies, and at Fordham University and Columbia University.