Professor Rachel Gross on Jewish Law and Representation

Dr. Rachel B. Gross was appointed to the John and Marcia Goldman Chair in American Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State in Fall 2016. Professor Gross is a scholar in religious studies whose work focuses on the lives, spaces, and objects of twentieth-century and contemporary American Jews. She has published scholarly articles on Jews and food and is currently working on a manuscript, entitled “Objects of Affection: The Material Religion of American Jewish Nostalgia.” Professor Gross received her PhD in Religion from Princeton University.