Melton Legislative Professor
Professor Jack Kugelmass is a cultural anthropologist with a background and continuing interest in critical theory. He completed fieldwork in Poland and New York City and has an increasing interest in Israel. Jack considers himself an urban anthropologist with a strong connection both to traditional neighborhood ethnography as well as to public culture and the study of museums, festivals and restaurants. He has a love for ethnography, writing and photography and enjoys teaching all three. In recent years Jack has become increasingly fascinated by the anthropology of travel. His current project looks at Yiddish travel books over a fifty year period between the First World War until the 1960s.
Education
- Ph.D. New School for Social Research
- M.A. New School for Social Research
- B.A. McGill University
Selected Publications
- Kugelmass, J. 2014. Sifting the Ruins: Emigre Jewish Journalists’ Return Visits to the Old Country, 1946-1948. University of Michigan, pp. 1-62.
- Kugelmass, J. 2013.’I’m a Gentile!’ Border Dramas and Jewish Continuity. In Dynamic Belonging: Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities, edited by Harvey Goldberg, Steven M. Cohen, and Ezra Kopelowitz, pp. 223-236. Berghahn Books, New York.
- Kugelmass, J. 2010. Rites of the Tribe: The Meaning of Poland for American Jewish Visitors. In Tourists and Tourism: A Reader, edited by Sharon Bohn Gmelch, pp. 369-396. Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL.
- Kugelmass, J. (editor). 2006. Jews, Sports and the Rites of Citizenship. Illinois University Press, Champaign.
- Kugelmass, J. (editor). 2003. Key Texts in American Jewish Culture. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ.