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Laura Yares is an Assistant Professor in the department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. She is a scholar of Jewish history, religion, and culture in North America, with particular research interests in education, gender, and material culture. She is the author of Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth Century America (North American Religions Series, NYU Press, 2023). Her newest book, a contemporary ethnographic study of learning in the context of Jewish cultural artistic sites, will be published by NYU Press in 2025.