Faculty Notes | Nancy Koppelman | 2023-2024

While working half-time on increasing Evergreen’s enrollment, Nancy Koppelman has been teaching about Jewish topics elsewhere. In June of 2023 she worked on a study tour of Israel and the West Bank with a dozen DEI and student affairs professionals from institutions across the country (see photo). This year she has given talks about antisemitism to hundreds of people under the auspices of Humanities Washington; she is in her third two-year appointment to its Speakers Bureau. By invitation, Nancy worked with Reed College and the University of Puget Sound to help administrators understand how antisemitism intersects with campus life. In addition, Prescott College’s social justice program invited her to help plan and host a three-day teach-in on the Israel/Hamas war (the photo is Nancy with student Sage Pineda; the teach-in was Sage’s senior project). She led the teach-in’s opening workshop, found its keynote speaker, and sat on a final panel discussion. Next year she’ll return to Prescott for a teach-in on the history of Black/Jewish mutual support. In addition, Nancy is also working with the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry to publicize and address the challenges of 12,000 Jews in Ethiopia. Finally, Nancy has received a private grant to create and deliver curriculum to academic administrators across the country who are challenged to realize the missions of their institutions in the face of rising campus antisemitism.