Kelly Train

Kelly Amanda Train is a Contract Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto and the Unit 1 VP for the contract faculty union (Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3904). She teaches a number of courses that focus on race, ethnicity, gender and families. Her research focuses on 1) Jews of colour in Canada and 2) Jewish women of colour and Jewish feminist thought.

Her recent publications include “Patriarchy and the Other in the Western Imagination: Honour Killings and Violence Against Women,” International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (2021), “Negotiating New Territory: Indian Jewish Women in the Family in Toronto,” Canadian Jewish Studies (2018), “Well, How Can You Be Jewish and European? Indian Jewish Experiences in the Toronto Jewish Community and the Creation of Congregation BINA,” American Jewish History (2016), and “East Meets West: Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in Canada and the United States,” in Barry Stiefel & Hernan Tesler-Mabé’s (eds.), Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similtudes: Reflections and Refractions Between Canadian and American Jews (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016). She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from York University in Toronto.

She is available to give talks or class visits online for a fee. Languages: English.

Laura Leibman

Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work focuses on religion and the daily lives of women and children in early America, and uses everyday objects to help bring their stories back to life. She is the author of "The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects" (BGC 2020), "Indian Converts" (UMass Press, 2008) and "Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2012), which won a National Jewish Book Award, a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies, and was selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013. Laura has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Utrecht University, the University of Panama, and the Leon Levy Foundation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center. Laura, who earned her PhD from UCLA, is currently at work on a book that uses material culture to trace the history of members of a multiracial family who began their lives enslaved in the Caribbean but became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York.

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