Annie Atura

Annie Atura is the Executive Director of CCSRE, where she leads the development and implementation of programs across CCSRE's Research Institute and five degree-granting Academic Programs. In addition to teaching core courses in CCSRE, she collaborates with CCSRE staff and partners across the university on the Center's wide-ranging portfolio of events, community partnerships, fellowship opportunities, undergraduate and graduate courses, and research networks.

As a PhD student in Stanford's English department, Dr. Atura won the Lieberman Fellowship, the Geballe Dissertation Fellowship, and the CSRE Graduate Teaching Fellowship. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and held the Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford in 2021-22. Her dissertation was awarded Stanford English Department's Alden Dissertation Prize in 2020. 

Dr. Atura co-edited a collection about the literary politics of Jewish American women writers entitled Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History (May 2024), which was a finalist for the 2024 National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies. Her solo book project explores feminism as a mechanism for Jewish women's integration into, and determination of, white norms of femininity.