Samuel Heilman OBM held the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. He has also been Scheinbrun Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , visiting professor of social anthropology at Tel Aviv University , and a Fulbright visiting professor at the Universities of New South Wales and Melbourne in Australia . He has been a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill , Rutgers University , Harvard University , the University of Maryland , Carelton College , Sydney University , Spertus College , the University of Pennsylvania , and Brandeis University , among others. In 1993 he gave the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures at the University of Washington.
