Alanna E. Cooper serves as the Abba Hillel Silver Chair in Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University, and Assistant Professor in the department of religious studies. Prior to this position, she directed Jewish Studies at CWRU's Lifelong Learning program. Her PhD is in cultural anthropology from Boston University (2001), and she has held teaching and research positions at Harvard University, Boston University, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, University of Michigan and University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Alanna is the author of Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism (Indiana University Press) and is currently writing Disposing of the Sacred: American Jewish Congregations (to be published with Pennsylvania State University Press). She has an extensive publishing record in the academic press, and in the popular press her articles have appeared in Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish Review of Books, Lilith and Kveller.
Alanna is the author of Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism (Indiana University Press) and is currently writing Disposing of the Sacred: American Jewish Congregations (to be published with Pennsylvania State University Press). She has an extensive publishing record in the academic press, and in the popular press her articles have appeared in Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish Review of Books, Lilith and Kveller.
