PAMELA S. NADELL holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and directs the Jewish Studies Program at American University. Her works include America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards Jewish Book of the Year, and Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination 1889-1985. Nadell is the past president of the Association for Jewish Studies. She lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.