About Dr. Claire E. Sufrin

Dr. Claire Sufrin is Vice President of Research and Publication at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she edits the award-winning Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas; directs the North American branch of the Institute's Kogod Research Seminar; and teaches teens, college students, and adults. She also lectures and teaches at synagogues and other settings around the country as a scholar-in-residence.

Claire’s written work has appeared in a variety of academic and other publications on challenges facing contemporary North American Jewish life and on topics related to modern Jewish thought. She is co-editor of the New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates, 1980-2015, a 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist, and the winner of the American Jewish Press Association's 2026 Simon Rockower Award in Personal Essay, among other honors.

Before joining the Hartman Institute, Claire  was Associate Professor of Instruction in Jewish Studies and Assistant Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She has also taught at Stanford University, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the University of Notre Dame, and Northeastern University in Boston. 

Claire holds a BA in Religious Studies from Yale University and a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University. She lives with her husband Michael Simon and their two children in Evanston, Illinois.

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