Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides


Department

Role: Faculty Emeritus
Campus: Springfield

Details

Education

  • DS, Jewish Studies, 2017, The Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership 
  • MA, 1992, Carnegie Mellon University
  • BS, 1990, Columbia University

Teaching

  • ENG 110
  • ENG 210
  • ENG 221
  • ENG 310
  • ENG 330
  • ENG 361
  • ENG 362

Professional experience

Selected non-fiction publications

  • “Changes in the Ashkanormative nature of SciFi stories,” with Valeria Frankel, in Anthology: Jewish Fantasy: International and/or Minority Cultures, Valerie Frankel, Ed. Lexington Pub., forthcoming.
  • “Golems in Television and Movies,” in Jews in Popular Science Fiction: Marginalized in the Mainstream, Valerie Frankel, ed. Lexington Pub., 2022.
  • “Jewish Sioux Falls,” in The History of Sioux Falls, Jon Lauck and Patrick Hicks, ed., Belt Pub., 2022, forthcoming.
  • Jews of Missouri: an ornament to Israel. Ozarks Studies Institute, 2021.
  • Creating Community: The Jews of Springfield, Missouri. Greene County Historical Society, 2021
  • The Evolution of the Non-liturgical Parts of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Haggadah, deGruyter, 2017.
  • “Jewish Homesteader Memoir: A Woman's Story,” in Judaism and Gender, Leonard Greenspoon, ed., Purdue UP, 2021, pp. 123-134, forthcoming.
  • “Exploring Midwestern v. Great Plains Regional Variation By Way of the Jewish Immigrant Experience,” in Search of the Interior Borderlands: Where Does the Midwest End and the Great Plains Begin?, Jon Lauck, ed., Augustana University, 2019.
  • Guest Editor. OzarksWatch: The Magazine of the Ozarks — Special Issue: Documenting Jews of the Ozarks, vol. 12, no. 1&2, 1999.

Selected fiction publications

  • We are in Exile/Estamos en Galut, Hakadosh, 2016.
  • A Shout in the Sunshine, The Jewish Publication Society, 2007

Research and professional interests

  • American Judaism
  • Jewish literature

Awards and honors

  • Show Me Missouri: Conversations about Missouri’s Past, Present, and Future, Missouri Humanities Council. 2019-2021
  • Best General History, Midwest Independent Publishers Association for Search of the Interior Borderlands: Where Does the Midwest End and the Great Plains Begin?, Jon Lauck, ed. 2020
  • Lowenstein-Wiener Fellowship at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Cincinnati Campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH. 2008-2009
  • Skipping Stones Honor Award for A Shout in the Sunshine. 2008
  • National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature Finalist for A Shout in the Sunshine. 2007
  • College of Arts and Letters Award in Research. Missouri State University. 2004-2005
  • Marguerite R. Jacobs Fellowship at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Cincinnati Campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH. 2001-2002
  • College of Arts and Letters Award in Research. Missouri State University. 1998-1999