 This appointment made her the first woman to head a Jewish Studies program at a prominent university.Over the course of her career Hyman authored ten books and sixty articles.Additionally, Hyman was the President of the American Association for Jewish Research from 2004 to 2008, the co-chair of the academic council of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture from 1995 to 2002, a member of the executive board of the Association for Jewish Studies and the Leo Baeck Institute, while being on the editorial board for various journals including "Association for Jewish Studies Review," "Jewish Social Studies," "Journal for the Feminist Study of Religion," and"YIVO Annual".