Jennifer S. Hirsch

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Jennifer S. Hirsch
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Hirsch speaks at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C., in January 2020
Born1967
New York, New York
Occupation(s)Researcher, professor, social justice advocate
Board member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (2014-2020)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellow 2012
Academic background
EducationJohns Hopkins University, Ph.D.
Princeton University B.A
Alma mater Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University

Jennifer Hirsch is a professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. From 2010 to 2024, she directed Sociomedical Sciences's doctoral programs. She currently co-directs the Columbia Center for Population Research. Hirsch also co-directed the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation. [1] [2] Her work spans topics such as gender, human sexuality, and public health. Her book, A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families, which has been used widely in college classrooms, explores the lives of Mexican women in Atlanta and rural Mexico, with a focus on changing ideas of marriage among Latinx couples. Hirsch served on the Board of Directors of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice from 2014 to 2020 (and as board chair from 2018 to 2020) and is a member of B'nai Jeshurun [3]

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  1. "SHIFT Team | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health". www.mailman.columbia.edu. 8 March 2016. Retrieved Jan 31, 2020.
  2. "Jennifer Hirsch, PhD". Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. December 1, 2022.
  3. "Jennifer S. Hirsch | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2017-05-18.
  4. "John S. Santelli, Jennifer S. Hirsch". The New York Times. 1993-07-05. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-05-18.