Dr. Samantha Pickette

(she/her)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Samantha Pickette is our Assistant Director. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University.  Her research focuses on Jewish-American culture, with a particular emphasis on representations and stereotypes of Jewish women in American literature, film, television and comedy.  She has taught courses at BU, Smith College, UT Austin, where she served as Assistant Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and Boston College, where she served as the inaugural visiting fellow in Jewish Studies.  She coordinated the Gilda Slifka Summer Internship at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for three years, mentoring students and facilitating their learning about Jewish Boston in a collegial and pluralistic setting. Her work has been published in Shofar, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, among others.  Her first monograph, Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman:  Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy, was released by Lexington Books in 2022.