Professor Nancy Sinkoff’s co-edited volume, Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery (2023), was the winner of the PIASA 2024 Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume. Sinkoff was also elected to the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR). The Academy represents the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America. Fellows are nominated and elected by their peers and thus constitute the most distinguished and most senior scholars teaching Judaic studies at American universities. 

Nancy Sinkoff is the Academic Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University. In 2023 she published the co-edited volume, Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery (Rutgers University Press, with Halina Goldberg and Natalia Aleksiun), which was the winner of the PIASA 2024 Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume. In 2024, she published another co-edited volume, A Jew In the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History (Wayne State University Press, with Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovitch). Besides her work as an editor, Dr. Sinkoff contributed the chapter, “Biography as Hesped: S. L. Shneiderman’s Homage to Ilya Ehrenburg,” to the book. She was elected to the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR).