- Daniel Boyarin, Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California at Berkeley
- Todd M. Endelman, William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan
- Peter Eli Gordon, Professor, Department of History, Harvard University
- Ed Greenstein, Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Distinguished Scholar, Bar-Ilan University
- Galit Hasan-Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore, Hebrew University
- Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
- Harriet Murav, Professor, Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Riv-Ellen Prell, Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
- Kenneth Reinhard, Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literatures, UCLA
- Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Maurice Amado Chair of Sephardic Studies, UCLA
- David M. Stern, Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew, University of Pennsylvania
- Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania