About Me:
Wasserfall is the newly appointed Director of Evaluation and Liaison to Schools of The Center for the Advancement of Hebrew Teaching and Learning Inc. She is an anthropologist with a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has a wide experience in three different continents. For many years her work focused on gender and ethnic studies in Israel, and in the Jewish world. She taught gender studies and qualitative methodology classes at the Hebrew University, Duke University, Chapel Hill (NC), University of Colorado, Boulder and Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. She has been a Fulbright fellow as well as a beneficiary of Ford Foundation grants. She has widely published in the area of gender and is the editor of Women and Water: Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law (UPNE, 1999). With her move to Boston, Wasserfall shifted her interest to Jewish education. She was the Special Coordinator at JCDS (Boston Jewish Community Day School) in which capacity she directed the AISNE accreditation process. She also co-authored (with Susan Sevitz) a study on Jewish pluralism in a local Day School. She has wide experience in qualitative evaluation and is the yearly evaluator of the ISSRPL. At Education Matters Inc, Wasserfall was a Senior Research Associate and co-led the Special Education Initiative and contributed to the Peerless Initiative and other projects. In her newly appointed position Rahel will focus on internal evaluation and be part of the senior leadership at the Center for the Advancement of Hebrew teaching and Learning, Inc. She is also a committed yoga practioner and teacher, having completed teacher training in the Iyengar tradition.
Area(s) of Expertise
Qualitative methodology; educational assessment,;gender
Current Area of Employment
Director of Evaluation, HATC
