Samuel Heilman is Harold Proshansky Professor
of Jewish Studies and Sociology on the faculty of Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City of New York. He has also been Scheinburn Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Visiting Professor Social Anthropology at Tel Aviv University and a Fulbright visiting professor at the Universities of New South Wales and Melbourne.

Professor Heilman is a renowned lecturer and author. He wrote numerous books, articles and reviews.
Among his publications are -
Synagogue Life: A study in Symbolic Interaction. University of Chicago Press, (1979)
The People of the Book: Drama, Fellowship and Religion.University of Chicago Press, (1983, 1987)
The Gate Behind the Wall. Summit Books/ Simon and Schuster, (1985) Penguin Books (1986) Jewish Pub. Society (1995)

Samuel Heilman
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY
Web Site -
http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/heilman/heilman.html

A walker in Jerusalem. Summit Books/ Simon and Schuster, (1986) - Winner of 1986 National Book Award.
Cosmopolitans and Parochial: Modern Orthodox Jews in America. University of Chicago Press (1989)
Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry. Schocken (1993) Finalist for National Jewish Book Award, 1992
Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century. University of Washington (1996) Gratz Centennial Book Award, 1996