Jessica Roda is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. She is currently serving as an assistant professor of Jewish Civilization in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is working on her second book ''Beyond the Sheitl. Hasidicness, Women’s Agency and Performances in the Digital Age", where she investigates how the artistic performances of Hasidic women act as an agent of social, economic and cultural empowerment.
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