Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz is the Provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary. She also serves as dean of the Gershon Kekst Graduate School and is the Irving Lehrman Research Associate Professor of American Jewish History.

 

From 1993 to 2018 Dr. Schwartz served with distinction as dean of Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, JTS's undergraduate school.  During this time, she strengthened List College's dual-degree programs with Columbia University and Barnard College, enhancing the way List College prepares students and alumni to serve as leaders in a wide range of fields. Her initiatives included the yearlong intensive Fellowship in Jewish Social Entrepreneurship and JustCity, a high school summer program both of which builds upon JTS's tradition of social justice engagement.

 

Since 2010, Dr. Schwartz has served as dean of the Gershon Kekst Graduate School, where she spearheaded the creation of a new MA program in Jewish Ethics, the first of its kind in the United States. Studying both theoretical and applied Jewish ethics, students develop the skills to apply the Jewish moral tradition to better serve the fields in which they work and the world around them. Dr. Schwartz’s most recent initiatives include a joint Jewish Ethics MA and Master of Public Health with Columbia’s Mailman School and a hybrid doctoral program in rabbinics.

 

She is the author of the award-winning The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life, The Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in America: The Publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and numerous articles on American Jewish history and culture. A third-generation JTS graduate, Dr. Schwartz received her BA from Barnard College and her MA and PhD from JTS.

 

Dr. Schwartz has served for many years on the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and the academic advisory boards of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (originally the International Research Institute on Jewish Women), and the Jewish Women's Archive.