Dianne Ash­ton is pro­fes­sor of reli­gion stud­ies and the for­mer direc­tor of Amer­i­can stud­ies at Rowan Uni­ver­si­ty. She is the author of five books, includ­ing the first mod­ern biog­ra­phy of the edu­ca­tion trail­blaz­er, Rebec­ca Gratz (1997). She is also the co-edi­tor of the wide­ly read Four Cen­turies of Jew­ish Wom­en’s Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty (1992), which was recent­ly pub­lished in a revised ver­sion in 2009.

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