About Me
Professor of Academic Literacy and Linguistics, BMCC - City University of New York (CUNY)
New York University, PhD (2009)
Sharon Avni is Professor of Academic Literacy and Linguistics at BMCC at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her work uses ethnographic approaches to examine the discursive, ideological, historical, and policy perspectives of Hebrew learning and usage in formal and experiential contexts in the United States. She is the co-author of Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community and American Jewish Summer Camps, a research affiliate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Advanced Research Collaborative Distinguished Fellowship/CUNY Graduate Center, Spencer Foundation Small Grant, and Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship, NEH summer stipend. She won the Distinguished Teaching Award at BMCC/CUNY (2018-2019). Her publications appear in a wide range of academic journals and edited volumes.