Claire E. Sufrin is Senior Editor at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she edits Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and the Notes for the Field blog, and is also a fellow of the Kogod Research Center. Claire earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University, where her research focused on the German-Jewish thinker Martin Buber, and a BA in Religious Studies from Yale University. 

Before joining Hartman in 2022, Claire taught in the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University for over a decade.  

Claire is co-editor of The New Jewish Canon, a collection of the most significant Jewish ideas and debates of the past two generations. Her written work has appeared in a variety of academic and lay publications on topics including Buber’s writings about the Bible and his philosophy of history; post-Holocaust theology; the intersection of religion and literature; and Jewish feminism.  

Claire lives in Evanston, IL with her husband Michael Simon and their two children.