Max Arthur Herman is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at New Jersey City University. Since receiving his
M.A. from Yale University and his PhD from the University of Arizona, Herman has taught courses on urban sociology, race and
ethnicity, social movements, and the sociology of religion at a variety of public and private universities including Rice
University, Oberlin College, and Rutgers University. He is the author of Fighting in the Streets: Ethnic Succession and
Urban Unrest in Twentieth Century America (Peter Lang, 2005). In addition to these academic engagements, Herman currently
serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Museum of New Jersey, located at historic Congregation Ahavas Sholom
in Newark.