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Hillary Anger Elfenbein

Aggressively moderate political commentary

Jun 20, 2025, 7:26 AM

Mothers Against College Antisemitism is a monster that universities created

Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th being both a faculty member and mother of a Jewish college student has placed me in the intersection of two very different worlds. This sliver of space is disquieting, in a field...

Jun 12, 2025, 8:54 AM

Missouri should fight harassment of Jews, not limit criticism of Israel

The Missouri legislature is currently considering House Bill 937, which adopts a definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), requires all public educational institutions to incorporate this definition into their codes of conduct, establishes a coordinator...

May 31, 2025, 8:48 AM

The Chronicle of Higher Education expresses disregard for Jewish parents

Being both a faculty member and mother of a Jewish college student has placed me in the intersection of two very different worlds: a profession that faces existential threats and a parent community where we and our children are...

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Hillary Anger Elfenbein is the Wallace Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Master’s degree in Statistics, and undergraduate degrees in Physics and Sanskrit, all from Harvard University, and served on faculty at UC- Berkeley. In addition to teaching and doing research on workplace psychology, she was twice voted one of St. Louis’ 30 funniest people.

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