Abbie Modaff received her Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2021 and is currently teaching in the Honors College at the University of Houston. Her research uses a long-running Jewish women’s book club to reveal the social power and impact of women thinking together. The book, The Ladies’ Pioneer Society: A History of Women and Ideas in America, investigates the Pioneers of St. Louis, a book club founded in 1879 that still exists today. It is under contract with Simon and Schuster.