American researcher and writer
Leah Garrett is a professor and "Larry and Klara Silverstein Chair in Jewish Studies" and Director of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Academic biography.
Garrett graduated with honors from Maryhurst University in the state of Oregon in 1991. The following year she completed a Diploma in Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, England. Garrett completed her PhD with Honors in 1999 at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City, during which she was also a Fulbright fellow at Tel Aviv University. In the same year, she was appointed as an assistant professor at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Denver, Colorado, and served there in this position until 2008. In the same year, she took up a post at Monash University, Melbourne Australia as a research professor for Contemporary Jewish culture. In 2013 Garrett was appointed as the Deputy Head of the Australian Center for Jewish Civilization at Monash University. During this time she served as honorary professor of history at the University of Warwick, England. Since 2018 she has been the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Hunter College.
Publications.
Garrett has published more than twenty peer reviewed articles and other publications. The most prominent are her four sole-authored books:
Garrett also was the sole editor of "The Cross and Other Jewish Stories: New Yiddish Library Series" by Lamed Shapiro (Yale University Press: 2007).
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