Dr. Alanna E. Cooper holds the Abba Hillel Silver Chair of Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University, where she also serves as Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Religious Studies.
Dr. Cooper is a cultural anthropologist whose work addresses religious change amid social upheaval. Her first book Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism was based on research conducted in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and among immigrants from there to the United States and Israel. She is currently writing Disposing of the Sacred: Synagogues in 21st Century America to be published with Pennsylvania State University Press.
In addition to her scholarly publications, Cooper’s work on Jewish dispersion, loss, memory, and material culture appears in the popular publications including Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Jewish Review of Books, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Lilith.
Dr. Cooper is a cultural anthropologist whose work addresses religious change amid social upheaval. Her first book Bukharan Jews and the Dynamics of Global Judaism was based on research conducted in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and among immigrants from there to the United States and Israel. She is currently writing Disposing of the Sacred: Synagogues in 21st Century America to be published with Pennsylvania State University Press.
In addition to her scholarly publications, Cooper’s work on Jewish dispersion, loss, memory, and material culture appears in the popular publications including Tablet Magazine, The Forward, Jewish Review of Books, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Lilith.
