Devi Mays

Devi Mays is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the University of Michigan. Her research coalesces around 19^th and 20^th Sephardi Jews and their diasporic networks in the Mediterranean and the Americas. Her book, Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Stanford University Press, 2020) won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, the American Historical Association’s 2021 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize, the 2021 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of Modern Jewish History: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania, and the 2021 Alixa Naff Prize for Middle Eastern Diaspora Studies. She is currently working on a book with Julia Phillips Cohen, tentatively entitled Tastemakers: How a Forgotten Group of Jews from North Africa and the Middle East Shaped Modern European Culture.