Associate Professor of

Sociology and

Jewish Studies

Shaul Kelner is Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, and past director of Vanderbilt’s Program in Jewish Studies. His research addresses the intersection of culture and politics, focusing on how cultural practices are mobilized to shape contemporary Jewish political identities. Some of his recent work has examined on diaspora Jewish travel to Israel, and cultural dimensions of the Cold War era movement to free Soviet Jews.