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Binyamin Y. Goldstein is a doctoral candidate at Yeshiva University. His dissertation will focus on Jewish-Christian literary interaction in the early Abbasid period. His hobbies include everything Syriac-related, cheesemaking, and metalsmithing.
Anne Albert is the Katz Center’s Klatt Family Director for Public Programs and Managing Editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. She earned her B.A. in the History of Religions at Reed College and her Ph.D. in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship focuses on early modern Jewish history, especially intellectual history, Jewish-Christian relations, and politics. She is currently completing a book on the political self-conception of the Sephardi Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Dr. Albert has received fellowship support from the Mellon Foundation, the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the American Association of University Women, and the Fulbright scholars program; and she has taught at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, Brown University, and Penn
Julie E. Cooper is Senior Lecturer (US equivalent: Associate Professor) in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include the history of political theory; early modern political theory (especially Hobbes and Spinoza); secularism and secularization; Jewish political thought; and modern Jewish thought. She is the author of Secular Powers: Humility in Modern Political Thought (Chicago, 2013). Her work has appeared in journals including Review of Politics, The Historical Journal, Political Theory, Jewish Quarterly Review, Annual Review of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. She has been awarded fellowships from the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study and The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. She is currently working on a book project, tentatively entitled Politics Without Sovereignty? Exile, State, and Territory in Jewish Thought, that examines modern attempts to reimagine and rehabilitate Judaism’s national and political dimensions
Natalie B. Dohrmann (B.A. Princeton University; Ph.D. University of Chicago) teaches in the departments of Religious Studies and History and in the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Associate Director of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and coeditor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Her research is focused on the Roman cultural context of rabbinic law. She has published articles recently in Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion, edited by Clifford Ando and Jörg Rüpke ; and Critical Analysis of Law. She is coeditor with Annette Reed of Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire: The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity.
Claire English is currently completing course work in the Judaic Studies stream of the PhD program. Her research examines the intersections of Disability and Judaic Studies. For her dissertation, Claire will write a history of the Jewish Deaf communities of New York in the late 19th to early 20th century. Further areas of study include Hebrew Bible and Interpretation, Rabbinics, Ritual Theory, Sensory and Material Anthropology, and the History of Emotions. Claire holds a BA in Classical Civilization and an MA in Judaic Studies, both from Concordia University.
Graduate student (Jagiellonian University, Poland- University of Southampton,UK) involved in various voluntary and charity work. Academic interests focused on Jewish history and
I consider myself as a kind of modern pirate, even though I run a bourgeois life. I like masks. I do prefer Shabtai Svi over Rambam, and I do not like Kegel.
Mili trained as a classical violinist in London before moving to the University of Chicago in 2014 to undertake PhD studies in Ethnomusicology. Her dissertation is provisionally entitled “Zionism(s), Racialization, and the Auditory Calibration of the Israeli Public Sphere”. In this research she merges ethnographic and historiographic methodologies, engaging with sound studies, racialization theory, and contemporary historiographic approaches to Zionism and Israeli cultural history. In her spare time she enjoys yoga, rock climbing, and tea drinking.
