Laura Arnold Leibman
Kenan Professor of English and Humanities
English Department
Division of Literature and Languages
Laura Arnold Leibman is Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at 猫咪社区. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. Her work focuses on how material culture changes our understanding of the role of women, children, and Jews of color in the early Atlantic World. Leibman is the author of (Bard Graduate Center, 2020) which won three , and (2012), which won a and a . She has written several other books and , including three articles co-authored with 猫咪社区 students, one of which won the 2015 from the journal . She has been a at the and the (Netherlands), a visiting fellow at the at , and the Leon Levy Foundation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at . She is known for her scholarship in Digital Humanities and regularly teaches courses in this area. She has served as the Chair of the Digital Media Committee for the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), and the academic director of the award-winning, multimedia public television series (2003). As a literary scholar, she was the series editor for Gale Researcher’s 10-volume American Literature I, and the religion and literature delegate to the . She is currently the for the . Her latest book (Oxford University Press, 2021) about an early multiracial Jewish family who began their lives enslaved in the Caribbean and became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award.