Noam Pianko

{{Short description|American academic}}

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Noam F. Pianko is an American academic. He is the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies and the Herbert and Lucy Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington.{{cite web |title=Noam Pianko |url=https://jsis.washington.edu/people/noam-pianko/ |publisher=University of Washington |access-date=14 September 2022}}

Pianko obtained his PhD at Yale University, writing his dissertation on Simon Rawidowicz, Mordechai Kaplan, and Hans Kohn.{{cite book |last1=Pianko |first1=Noam |title=Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn |date=2010 |publisher=Indiana University Press}}{{cite book |last1=Myers |first1=David N. |author1-link=David N. Myers |title=Between Jew & Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz |date=2009 |publisher=University Press of New England |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmevu65BqDwC&pg=PA14 |access-date=14 September 2022}} He has also written Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation (Rutgers University Press, 2015).

Pianko served as president of the Association for Jewish Studies from 2019 to 2021, when he resigned after receiving criticism for participating in a Zoom meeting with Steven M. Cohen, who had been accused of sexual harassment.{{cite web |title=Leadership Announcement from the AJS Executive Committee |url=https://associationforjewishstudies.org/about-ajs/press-room/news-events/news-detail/2021/04/13/leadership-announcement-from-the-ajs-executive-committee |publisher=Association for Jewish Studies |access-date=14 September 2022 |date=13 April 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Wisse |first1=Ruth R. |author1-link=Ruth Wisse |title=The Hounding of Noam Pianko |url=https://www.asmeascholars.org/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&year=2021&month=05&day=13&id=31:the-hounding-of-noam-pianko |publisher=Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa |access-date=14 September 2022}}