Sharon’s research focuses on New Deal art, American Jewish women, oral history, slave narratives, and academic freedom.
ESSAYS:
“Art in a Time of Need” in New Deal Art in the Pacific Northwest (Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Art Museum, 2020).
“Houdini, Hip Hop and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley’s Patterns of Culture” in Alan Brinkley: A Life in History (Columbia University Press, 2018).
“Art and the New Deal” in Aaron D. Purcell, ed., Interpreting American History: The New Deal and the Great Depression. Interpreting American History Series. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014.
“American Studies Association and BDS” in Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel (Indiana University Press, 2016).
“The Closing of the American Studies Association’s Mind” in The Case Against Academic Boycotts, eds. Cary Nelson and Gabriel Brahm (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2014).
“The Other Slave Narratives: The Works Progress Administration Interviews” in John Ernest, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.
JOURNAL AND REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
- “The New Deal and the Arts,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, ed. Jon Butler, Oxford University Press, 28 January 2022.
- “Litigation Is No Way to Fight Anti-Semitism,” Roundtable, American Jewish History, Volume 105, Issues 1/2, Jan./Apr. 2021 (A special issue on Antisemitism in American Jewish History).
- “Reviving a ‘Juniper in the Desert’: A Hebrew Exchange between Mordecai Kaplan and his Daughter Hadassah, 1932-1933,” Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (2020).
- “Contesting the ‘Way the Almighty Wants it”: Crafting Memories of Ex-Slaves in the Slave Narrative Collection,” American Quarterly, 53, no. 1 (2001).
- “The Motivations and Assimilation of British Women Who Migrated to Israel, 1965-1975,” The Jewish Journal of Sociology, XLI, nos. 1 and 2 (1999).
For additional writing, visit Sharon’s academia.edu page, here.