About

Professor Harvey Shapiro is the editor and contributing author of the recently published Handbook on Violence in Education: Forms, Factors, and Preventions. (Wiley, 2018). In addition to his work that has appeared in the journals, Educational Theory, Educational Philosophy and Theory, the Philosophy of Education Society Yearbook, the International Journal of Jewish Education Research, the Journal of Jewish Education, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, he is the author the book, Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation: From Volozhin to Bucasz (Lexington Books, 2013). Prior to his appointment at Northeastern University in, Professor Harvey Shapiro served as Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Hebrew College in Newton, Massachusetts, Headmaster of Cohen Hillel Academy in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Principal of the Stephen S. Wise Middle School in Los Angeles, California, and Director of the UAHC Swig Camp Institute in Saratoga, California.

Professor Harvey Shapiro graduated with a degree in History from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He then studied Jewish education at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion where he received his Master’s Degree. He received MS in Education from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and a Ph.D. in Jewish Education from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.

Professor Harvey Shapiro teaches courses on sociopolitical contexts of education and the relationships among faith, ethics, and educational leadership in the Graduate School of Education of the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.