The Jewish Family in Global Perspective

Harriet Hartman is currently Professor Emeritus at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ (USA) and part-time faculty at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the co-author of 2 previous books on gender among American Jews, Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education and Family (Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman, UPNE/Brandeis University Press, 2009) and Gender Equality and American Jews (Moshe Hartman and Harriet Hartman, SUNY Press, 1996), has published two other edited books, in addition to her doctoral dissertation which was on a related topic, Women's Roles in Israeli Society, which analyzed the effect of immigrating to Israel on family life and gender roles.

As the Marshall Sklare Award honoree (Association of the Social Scientific Study of Jewry) in 2019, her address was on "How Gender and Family Still Matter for Contemporary Jewry," later published in the journal Contemporary Jewry, June 2020. She has published many otherarticles and book chapters related to Jewish families, both American and Israeli, including a chapter on the Jewish Family in the 2016 American Jewish Year Book, which has been widely quoted. She has also presented at many professional conferences on these topics. She received the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2019 at Rowan University and an award for Excellence in Support & Advocacy of First-Generation Students in 2022 at Rowan University.

She is the current editor-in-chief of Springer's journal Contemporary Jewry, and prior to that was the editor of the Springer book series Studies of Jews in Society. She serves as an advisory board member for the American Jewish Year Book and is on the editorial board of the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. She also serves on the executive board of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, and previously served as president of the same organization.