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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.
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.
Hannah is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and in the collaborative program in Jewish Studies. Her dissertation work focuses on the politics of contemporary Jewish women’s prayer practices in Jerusalem. A current key site of her research is the ongoing public debate surrounding gender and ritual at the Western Wall
I am on my fourth year as a PhD student in the Hebrew Literature Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. I wright my thesis on the poetry of Gabriel Preil, a modern Hebrew and Yiddish poet who leaved in the American Diaspora.
Catherine R. Power is currently working toward a PhD in political theory within the department of political science at the University of Toronto. She received a BAH from the University of Toronto and MA in political science from McGill University. Her MA thesis, On the Problem of Ethnicity in Multicultural Theory: Patriotism and Diaspora Reconsidered explored some of the ways that we can better theorize how minorities negotiate belonging within nation-states. Her doctoral research focuses on the ways that figural “judaism” has served as a locus of critical philosophical conjecture and discussion in modern political thought. She has also previously published work examining Jewish responses to modernity and nationalism. Catherine is the recipient of numerous undergraduate and graduate awards
Eliyahu Rosenfeld is a Ph.D. Student in the department of literature at Ben Gurion University. He wrote his
thesis on the function of silence in discussions concerning virginity claims in the Babylonian Talmud. His current research deals with the poetics of Halachic Sugyot in Babylonian Talmud focusing on the role of the narrator and the intended reader.
