Hannah Z. Kober is a North American David Hartman Center Fellow. She is a PhD Candidate in Educational Linguistics with a Concentration in Jewish Studies at Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she is a Jim Joseph Fellow and Wexner Graduate Fellow-Davidson Scholar. She is also a 2023-2024 Doctoral Fellow at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University.

Hannah is interested in the sociology of heritage language learning, with specific attention on the impact of language ideologies and attitudes on Hebrew language learning and Jewish education in the United States. Her dissertation focuses on how Israeli-American parents make decisions about Hebrew language learning for and with their children. Hannah has several published and forthcoming pieces about issues in heritage language learning and/or Jewish Education, including a collaborative work with scholars across language contexts. She most recently served as the Managing Director of the Jewish English Lexicon and previously administered the research division of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.