Maxwell Greenberg (P.h.D., UCLA) is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Goucher College. At Goucher, Greenberg teaches courses about the production of American religion(s), immigration flows, social movements, and public memory. His scholarly interests include race, religion, gender, diasporism, settler colonialism and critical geographies. He is the author of several scholarly articles and book chapters and is currently working on a book manuscript (tentatively) titled, “The New Jewish Pioneer: Race, Religion and Memory in the US-Mexico Borderlands.”
In summer 2022, I worked with the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Philadelphia, PA) as a researcher to develop new, open-access curriculum related to “Race, Religion and American Judaism,” with funding from the Center for Jewish Ethics and National Endowment for the Humanities.
Participating Scholar, Religion in the North American West (Annual Symposium), William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (2022-23 AY)
Journal Articles
Maxwell Greenberg, "State of the Field: Jewish History in the North American West," Western States Jewish History 52:2 (2023)
Book Chapters
Maxwell Greenberg, “Jewish Pioneer Cemeteries: Caring for Sacred Space on Stolen Land,” Religion in the American West, Ed. Brandi Dennison, and Brett Hendrickson. (North Carolina University Press) under-review
Greenberg, Maxwell. “Jewish Merchants between Landscapes of Extraction and Policing,” Jewish Identities in the American West: Relational Perspectives.” Ed. Ellen Eisenberg. (Brandeis University Press, 2022)
Greenberg, Maxwell E. “Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Border Crossing Cards.” Jews Across the Americas: 1492-Present (Sourcebook). Ed. Laura Leibman and Adriana Brodsky. (New York University Press, 2023)
Public Scholarship
Greenberg, Maxwell E. “The Mexican Mahjar of the Borderlands.” 1000 Years of Sephardic Los Angeles: A Project of the UCLA Alan D Leve Center for Jewish Studies. February 2020. Online.
Greenberg, Maxwell E and Max M Daniel. “Ocasio-Cortez’s Jewish Heritage Isn’t About You,” Jewish Currents. January 2019. Online.
Greenberg, Maxwell. “Anxiety in the Archive.” PROTOCOLS, Vol. 3, Summer 2018.
Warburg Research Grant. “Jewish Merchants of the Southwest and the Making of Mexican Revolutionary Memory.” New Mexico History Museum (2022-23 AY)
Participating Scholar, Religion in the North American West (Annual Symposium), William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (2022-23 AY)
New Directions in Jewish Studies Lecturer. Jewish Studies Program, University of California, Davis. (2020-21 AY)
Inaugural Scholar-in-Residence, Jewish History Museum of Tucson (Winter 2020)