Shelly Tenenbaum is associate professor of sociology and director of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies concentration at Clark University. Her research on ethnic enterprise, mutual aid, gender, education, and identity intersect the broad areas of sociology of American Jews and historical sociology. Her article “It's In My Genes: Biological Discourse and Essential-ist Views of Identity Among Contemporary American Jews” (with Lynn Davidman) will appear in The Sociological Quarterly (2007).