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Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) |
I am a doctoral student integrated into the Centre de Recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée research team at INALCO, Paris, where I work on a thesis in Hebrew and comparative literature. My principal academic interests are early modern and enlightenment Europe, Jewish-Christian intellectual exchange, biblically-inspired literature (Hebrew, French, Italian) and problems concerning its translation/adaptation. |
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University of Trier |
My name is Annika Funke and I just submitted my master thesis concerning the prosecution of Jews in a 15th century small-town court. Since I am a research assistant at the chair for medieval history at Trier University and at the Arye Maimon Institute for Jewish History, my current interests are focused on late medieval Ashkenaz and the interreligious relationships between Christians and Jews during this period. |
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Yale University |
I am a first year PhD student at Yale where I am studying medieval Jewish history. I wrote my undergraduate thesis at the University of Chicago on legal uses of women’s sexual pleasure in the medieval Talmud commentary the Tosafot, and am interesting in thinking more about rabbinic legal texts and the lives of the people who wrote them. |
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University of Haifa |
Avraham Yoskovich is a PhD Candidate in the General History Department at University of Haifa, and an executive editor of the online journal for Rabbinic and Talmudic studies Oqimta. His research traces terms such as apostasy (in Hebrew: meshumad), that reflect the status of members in the community trying to leave the community. It contributes to questions of identity and community definitions in late antique and early Islamic Jewish communities in the Fertile Crescent, and the relationship with other religious communities such as the East Syrian church. |
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University of Toronto |
I am a PhD Candidate in History and Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. My research focuses on the history of German women’s prisons and I am also committed to current social issues pertaining to incarceration and prisoner-rights advocacy in the United States. |
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Yale University |
My name is Emilie Amar-Zifkin, and I am a third year PhD student at Yale University in the department of Religious Studies. I focus on Jewish-Christian relations in medieval Ashkenaz, and I am interested in how Jewish-Christian relations are represented in religious rituals and folk beliefs about life-cycle events and issues of illness and healing. I have also recently been working on questions of Jewish identity formation in medieval Ashkenaz, specifically in Sefer Hasidim, surrounding the idea of conversion as living death, and of the possibility of “reversing” conversion. I believe that exploring these issues in the midst of the distinctly Christian surroundings of medieval Ashkenaz may help lead to a deeper understanding of how relationships between Jews and Christians were affected by the growing body of knowledge about the religious Other that developed over the course of the end of the 12th century. |
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Yale University |
Evan Goldstein is a PhD student in Religion & Modernity at Yale University. He studies the modern intellectual and cultural history of European Jewry and especially the representation of Jewish difference in philosophy and literature. Engaging with writers including Moses Mendelssohn, Marcel Proust, and Hannah Arendt, he is interested in how concepts and figures of Jewishness function in theories of European modernity. |
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University of Toronto |
As a political scientist, my research interests focus on the Middle East. As part of my interest in Jewish Studies, I am to explore the linkages and the possible convergences between the Jewish and Islamic cultures, in matters of cultural history, religious culture, and other aspects; and their links to the modern cultural fabric of the Middle East. |
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Arizona State University |
As a PhD student of the Anthropology of Religion, I work at the intersection of body, sexuality, and religiosity as seen through the lens of current Jewish menstrual practices among Jewish women and non-Jewish women partners of Jewish men in the Greater Phoenix Jewish communities. In particular, I examine how orthodox and non-orthodox women blend traditional orthodox and conventional American menstrual practices and attitudes, as well as the impact of personal experiences of menstruation, sexuality, trauma, biomedicine, and religious identity factor into women's construction of their personal menstrual practices.This work extends into a deconstruction of mainstream American Wave Feminist menstrual politics. |
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University of Pennsylvania |
I am a PhD candidate in the comparative literature program at the University of Pennsylvania, interested in the introduction of new reading practices of the Bible in the early modern period in France and Spain. My research draws from disciplines such as history of books and translation theory in order to shed new light on the transformations that took place in this period. |
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University of Potsdam |
I am a graduate student at the University of Potsdam, working on my Master's thesis about Beth Chayim Chadashim, the world's first Gay outreach synagogue. From the beginnings of my studies, I'm interested in the Jewish LGBTQI community and its achievements in the last fifty years. Besides the interactions of Jewish Studies and Gender Research, I'm focusing on the commemorative culture in Germany and Israel as well as on the Hebrew language. |
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University of Sheffield |
I returned to academia as a mature student to complete an MA in European Jewish History at the University of London in 2014. In 2017 I enrolled at the University of Sheffield as a part time PhD student. My research concentrates on the contradictions in commemorative practice of the Second World War in the Haute-Savoie department in France. |
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Harvard University |
My name is Jesse Mirotznik. Originally from Brooklyn, I am now midway through a PhD program at Harvard University, focusing on Bible and Rabbinics. I hope to research ancient Jewish perspectives on non-Jewish religion. |
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University of Delhi, India |
I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, India. I am pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD that focuses on social construction of the dead in Judaism and Hinduism through culture specific death rituals. I was also awarded the Commonwealth Split-site PhD Scholarship to pursue a year of my PhD in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. |
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University of Southampton |
With an interdisciplinary background in cultural studies and journalism, Maja Hultman conducts her doctoral thesis on the Swedish-Jewish population’s spatial strategies and limitations 1870-1939 at University of Southampton, investigating Jewish/non-Jewish relations, sacred multiplicity and inner-communal hierarchies. She is currently a doctoral fellow at Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany. |
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Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) |
My name is Marina Girona (b. Spain, 1989), I graduated in Medieval History in 2012. I am currently in the final stage of my doctoral dissertation that I intend to finish this spring. The dissertation discusses Jewish inter- and intra-familial disputes concerning marriage, dowry, and inheritance in fifteenth-century Castile. I take advantage both of Jewish and non-Jewish documentary legal and judicial sources. |
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Queen's University at Kingston |
Miche Xu is a doctoral candidate at Queen’s University in Canada who researches family history, gender and women in the early modern world. His dissertation reconstructs the industrial, religious and secular roles of women in nine Jewish families at Kaifeng, China. It will then explore how approaches and manifestations of gender were shaped through the intersection of major eastern and western religions and subsequent cultural transmission. |
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The Graduate Center, CUNY |
Miriam Moster is a doctoral student in sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She received her MFA in poetry and BA in philosophy and draws on both humanistic and quantitative methods in her social science research. Her current research focuses on collective memories of Jewish learning, turning to Talmudic and Midrashic narratives as well as to contemporary ritual practices and holiday observances. |
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
I am a doctoral student in the field of sociology of religion, looking at conversion and its effects in contemporary America and Israel. I take a quantitative approach, based on data from surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center. |
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University of Haifa |
I am writing a dissertation on the poetics and cultural-historical aspects of early modern Jewish travel literature. I'm interested in the intersection between lived experience, poetics, community and transmission, and therefor draw on Folkloristics, Cultural History and New Historicism in my work. |
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
I am an olah from Chicago and have been living in Israel for eight years - currently in Tel Aviv. In my undergraduate studies, I majored in Biblical archaeology and assyriology, and I am currently continuing to study the literature, history, and culture of Israel and the Jewish people in my MA in Bible and in a tour-guide course. In addition to my Jewish academic pursuits, I help organize an egalitarian minyan in Tel Aviv and a bi-weekly beit midrash. |
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The University of Chicago |
My name is Tahel Goldsmith, and I am a first-year graduate student in the History Department at the University of Chicago. I am broadly interested in German and European history of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the Holocaust and its aftermath, particularly the intersections of space, material culture, violence, memory, and gender. My current research project traces histories of personal objects carried by prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and their trajectories and transformations in the postwar lives of survivors, as well as in collective Holocaust commemoration in Israel. |
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University of Toronto |
Vardit L i g h t s tone is a doctoral candidate in a Joint Education Placement Program between the Germanic Languages and Literatures Department and the Collaborative Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto and the Folklore and Folk Culture Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the life stories of Yiddish speaking immigrants to Canada from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In her research, Vardit interrogates both the folk literary genre of life stories and the ways migrants use folklore to help adapt to their new situations and express new hybrid identities. |
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University of Southampton |
I am a mature student with a long interest in Jewish history which began over forty years ago. A period in Israel (1987-88) working as a violinist in the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra made a particularly deep impression and fueled my resolution to continue studying and to learn Hebrew, both Modern and Biblical. Eventually, the opportunity came my way to study for an MRes for which I was awarded a Distinction and now I have the privilege of being able to continue my research at PhD level. |
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University College London |
I am a second year PhD student at UCL studying for a doctorate with the working title: Yiddish in Britain: Culture, Immigritation and the East End. I am interested in placing the local history of the British Jewish community into the context of wider transnational (Jewish) movements of the period, be they socialist, zionist, yiddishist and other, by using Yiddish language newspapers, journals and memoir sources. |
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Johns Hopkins University |
Zvi Kunshtat is a doctoral student in the department of History at Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation studies the world of the dwellers of Yeshivot, Batei-Midrash, and Kloizen in the wake of the Sabbatian upheaval in the late 17th century. The dissertation demonstrates how students, through their movement across Eastern and Western Europe, dispersed contentious theosophical ideas and thus played crucial roles in the formation of the normative distinction between legitimate and "forbidden" knowledge. |
