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Schneur Zalman Newfield

Schneur Zalman Newfield

Interim Director of Jewish Studies 2024-2025 AY and Associate Professor

Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College.

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Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College. He received his PhD in Sociology from New York University, with a focus on cultural sociology and the study of identity, narrative, and resocialization. He holds an MA from NYU in sociology and a BA from Brooklyn College, CUNY, in psychology. Prior to arriving at Hunter, he was an Assistant Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Before joining CUNY, he taught sociology courses for two years in six New Jersey state prisons through Rutgers University-Newark’s New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) program.

Dr. Newfield’s research focuses on the process individuals undergo when making major life transitions. His book, Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020), explores the lives of a group of men and women who were raised in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities and decided to leave that way of life, a process he personally underwent.

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Schneur Zalman Newfield

Sociology
68th Street West W1605
(212) 772-5573
sn3172@Hunter.cuny.edu

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