Author, pro­fes­sor, and Patrick Clen­de­nen Chair in Women’s and Gen­der His­to­ry at Amer­i­can Uni­ver­si­ty in Wash­ing­ton, DC, Pamela Nadell is a recip­i­ent of the university’s high­est fac­ul­ty award, Scholar/​Teacher of the Year. Past pres­i­dent of the Asso­ci­a­tion for Jew­ish Stud­ies, she has also received the Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­tor­i­cal Society’s Lee Max Fried­man Award for dis­tin­guished ser­vice to the pro­fes­sion. Pamela won the 2019 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for Book of the Year.