Hannah Zaves-Greene received her PhD in Judaic Studies from NYU, where she focused on American Jewish history alongside disability, gender and sexuality, and legal history. Her forthcoming book, Able to Be American: Disability in U.S. Immigration Law and the American Jewish Response, explores how American Jews contested health-, disability-, and gender-based discrimination in federal immigration law, responding with a new, broader conception of disability, citizenship, and national belonging. The book is under contract with UNC Press, and is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New York Public Library. 

Hannah holds the Roberta G. Sands and Samuel Z. Klausner Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. She also sits on the Academic Advisory Council for the Jewish Women’s Archive, and advises the National Museum of Immigration at Ellis Island on health and disability in immigration history. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Cooper Union, and the New School for Social Research, presented her research at national and international conferences, and lectured in both academic and popular settings. Hannah's public history writing appears online at the Jewniverse, the Activist History Review, and the Jewish Women’s Archive. Her scholarly work has been published in American Jewish History and the Journal of Transnational American Studies and appears in the edited volume Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation from NYU Press.