Past Fellows

A Story of Their Own: 20th-Century Jewish Trans Narratives in German and Yiddish

Benjamin Baader
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Creating Self and Creating Community: Gender, Class, and Jewish Difference In German Jewish Family Letters and Diaries, 1813-1871

Gershon Bacon
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Politicization of the Hasidic Masses in Poland: The Case of Alexander (Aleksandrow) Hasidim, 1900-1930

Olena Bagno-Moldavski
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Aetiology of the FSU Jewish minorities' political culture in Israel, Germany and Ukraine

Shirly Bahar
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"In Formation: Visualizing the Racialization of the Middle Eastern Jew, 1882 - 1948"

Nadya Bair

2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity (Head Fellow)

The International Center of Photography and Its Founder Cornell Capa

Mira Balberg
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“Blood for Thought: The Rabbinic Reinvention of Sacrifice in Its Roman and Early Christian Context”

Monique Balbuena
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The New Faces of Ladino in Latin America Today: Language Revival and National Identity

Anthony Bale
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Fear, Pleasure and the Medieval Jewish Image

Rafael Balulu
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"Thoughts about the Possibility Offered by the 'Metaverse' on Mizrahi History and Aesthetics"

Amir Aharon Banbaji
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
History of Hebrew Literary Criticism and Theory: The Haskala Period

Eitan Bar-Yosef
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“Zionism, the British Empire, and the Making of Israeli Identity: Mimicry, Resistance, and Nostalgia”

2025-26 Theme: Jews and Media
The history of Israeli Educational Television, tracing the creative, sometimes subversive, ways in which the station’s output reflected Israel’s dramatic transformation during the long 1970s.

Maya Barzilai
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Monstrous Borders: The Golem Legend and the Creation of Popular Culture
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures (Co-head Fellow)
Translation Beyond Zionism: Hebrew-German Literary Exchanges

Illil Baum
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
The Knowledge of Arabic among the Jews of the Crown of Aragon: Late Medieval Jewish Multilingualism as a Marker of an Elitist Culture

Murray Baumgarten
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Wrestling with the Angel: Civic Virtue and Modern Jewish Writing

Shlomo Berger
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
The Construction of a Cultural Artifact: Early Modern Yiddish Books and the Materializing of Text

Inka Bertz
2023-24 Theme: Jewish Visual Cultures
“The Entrance of Jews into the Artistic Professions (1770-1870)”

Todd Berzon
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Holy Tongues: The Materiality of Language in the Religious World of Late Antiquity

Rivka Bilboim
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Language and Gender: The Case of the "Frecha"

Sara Blair
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
The View from Below: Photography and Urban Vision on the Lower East Side

Inbal Blau (Maimon)
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"Mizrahi Discourse on Traditional Justice - The Cases of Ringworm Treatment and Yemeni Children in Israel"

Efrat Bloom
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
“Walter Benjamin’s Secular Prayer”

Gabriele Boccaccini
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews

Diversity without Unity, Judaisms without Judaism? The Search for Rabbinic Origins as a Quest for the Elusive Core of Judaic Studies

"Christian and Rabbinic Origins: An Intellectual History, from Daniel to the Mishnah"

Miriam Bodian
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
An Argument for Religious Toleration: The Inquisition Defense of a Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Jew

Catherine Bonesho
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Kings, Queens, and Caesars: Gentile Rulers in Early Jewish Literature"

Rick Bonnie
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity

"Material Religion in Hasmonean-Roman Judaea: The Role of the Senses, Space, and Climate in Determining the Use of Synagogues and Miqva'ot"

Ross Brann
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Andalusi and Sefardi Exceptionalism

Naomi Brenner
2016-2017 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures
Comparative Approaches: Best-Sellers and the Boundaries of Hebrew Literature

Ayelet Brinn
2025-26 Theme: Jews and Media
A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press

Mia Bruch
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Theory and Practice: American Jews and the Science of Democracy

Zoya Brumberg-Kraus

2023–24 Theme: Jewish Visual Cultures
“From Gold Mountain to Tinseltown: Ethnic Identity in California’s Architectural Vernacular”

David Bunis
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Expressions of Emotion in Jewish Languages

Sean Burrus
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Image and Empire: Jewish Identities and Visual Arts under Rome

Marce Butierrez

The Lost Feygele Files: Repairing Queer and Trans Jewish Legajos

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Justin Cammy
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters (Co-head Fellow)
The Yiddish Trace in Contemporary Jewish Fiction and Popular Culture

Andrew "Marc" Caplan
2010-11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The Weight of an Epoch: Yiddish Literature and German Culture in the Interwar Era
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
The Weight of an Epoch: Yiddish Modernism and German Modernity in the Weimar Era

Irit Carmon-Popper
2023-24 Theme: Jewish Visual Cultures
“Past Imperfect: Contemporary Art Versus Heritage in Historic Sites in Israel - A New Comparative Framework”

Rodney Caruthers II
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Judaism and its Practice Beyond Ethiopian Rivers"

C. Mike Chin
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe

Kelley Coblentz Bautch
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Recovering Diverse Voices in 1 Maccabees"

Joshua Cole
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
A Riot in France: Violence and Colonial Reform in Algeria, 1919-1940

Monica Colominas Aparicio
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Sephardic Exceptionalism in the anti-Jewish Polemics of Medieval Iberian Muslims

Richard I Cohen

2023–24 Theme:
Jewish Visual Cultures (Co-Head Fellow)

“Revisiting Jewish Icons in Modern Culture and History”

Julia Cohen-Phillips

Global Threads: An Alternative History of Fin-de-Siecle Parisian Fashion by Way of Constantinople, Algiers, and Kyoto

Alanna Cooper
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Communities on the Margins: Re-Centering Jewish Studies

Lila Corwin-Berman
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Sprawling Judaism: Authenticity in the American Suburb

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Deborah Dash Moore
Director, 2005-2015
2007-2008 Theme: Jews & the City (Head Fellow)
Jewish Photographers and American Cities

Jessie DeGrado

2024-25 Theme: Jewish/Queer/Trans
“Their Way is Queer”: Religion as Gender Transgression in Ancient West Asia

J.P. Dessel
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
In Search of Biblical Elders: Public Space and Rural Elites in Pre-Monarchic Israel

susi c dessel
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Words Heard in a Black Maria

Lois Dubin
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Rachele and Her Loves: Marriage and Divorce in a Revoluntionary Age

Jessica Dubow
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
“Thinking Outside the City Walls: Philosophy, Geography, and the Radicalism of Judaic Thought”

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Todd Endelman
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews (Head Fellow)
Studying Jews

Gil Engelstein

Split at the Root: The Jewish Question of Gay Liberation, 1970-1990

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Liane Feldman
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Rewriting Sacrifice in Second Temple Judaism"

Sara Feldman
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“People of the Russian Book: Translating Pushkin into Jewish Languages”

Kirsten Fermaglich
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name

Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jewish Life in Ashkenaz in the Early Modern Period: Proposing a Reconstruction

Lucia Finotto
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
The Jewish Translators of the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily

Deborah Forger
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
God's Embodiment in Jewish Antiquity

Jonathan Freedman
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness (Head Fellow)
Borders of Jewishness

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Sheer Ganor

2024-25 Theme: Jewish/Queer/Trans
A Place to Misfit Into: Valeska Gert’s Beggar Bar

Gregg E. Gardner
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"The Archaeology of Diversity in Rural Palestine During the Second Temple Era"

Olga Gershenson
2025-26 Theme: Jews and Media
New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre, exploring the intersection of global cinematic genres with local Israeli cultural and historical anxieties.

Elliot Ginsburg
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Ve-yesh sod la-davar (The Word's the Thing): A Thick Description of Jewish Mystical Prayer Practices

Zvi Gitelman
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life (Head Fellow)
Politics and Perspectives on the Holocaust in the Wartime Soviet Union
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Under and After Empire: Jewish Public Life After Communism

Jennifer Glaser
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Exceptional Differences: Race, Chosennes, and the Postwar Jewish American Literary Imagination

Harvey Goldberg
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Maghrib Border Processes

Judith Goldstein
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jews and Rosaries: Making Intercultural Objects in Contested Spaces

Alessandro Guetta
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
"A common tongue": Jewish translation from Hebrew in Early Modern Italy

Oren Gutfeld
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jewish Material Culture in the Judean Shephelah during the Second Temple Period: Beit Loya as a Case Study

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Anna Hajkova

Quartet: Story of Survival

Chaya Halberstam
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Sacred Possessions: Material Culture in Early Jewish Texts
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Justice and Mercy Revisited: A Religious-Legal History of Judicial Impartiality

Liora Halperin
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Memories of Violence: The First Aliyah and its After-Images

Gilad Halpern

The Palestine Post newspaper and government-press relations in British-ruled Palestine, exploring the history of news media, broadcasting, and journalistic landscapes in Israel and Europe.

Brian Hamm
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Being 'Portuguese' at the Diasporic Margins

Matt Handelman
2025-26 Theme: Jews and Media
The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory, exploring the mathematical and digital dimensions of modern Jewish cultures alongside the structural mechanics of the conspiracy theory surrounding the Frankfurt School.

Benjamin Hary
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The History of Judeo-Arabic

Yali Hashash
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"Mizrahi Feminism between Class, Religion, and Nationalism: A New Comparative Framework"

Yaakov Herskovitz
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Bilingualism Reimagined: Yiddish-Hebrew Literature in an Age of Monolingualism

Marc Herman
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Andalusian Independence from Geonic Authority in its Maliki and Almohad Contexts

Brian Horowitz
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Development of Russian Zionism as a Social Movement

Mostafa Hussein
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
The Refraction of Arabo-Islamic Civilization in Hebrew and Israeli Cultures

Noah Hysler-Rubin
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Planning Palestine: A Comprehensive Approach for the Study of Israel's Urban History

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Maya Soifer Irish
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Sephardic Exceptionalism and the Castilian Jewish Elites

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Adriana X. Jacobs
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures (Co-head Fellow)
Undead Poets Society: Hebrew Afterlives in Translations

Martin Jacobs
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Constantinople vs. Tenochtitlan: Imperial Expansion through a Post-Expulsion Sephardic Lens

Eve Jochnowitz
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
A kosherer top un a kosherer lefl: Yiddish Reactions to Modern Jewish Food Practices

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Richard Kalmin
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Aramaic Targumim in Jewish and Christian Mesopotamia

Verena Kasper-Marienberg
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Seeking Imperial Justice- Accounts of Conflict in the 18th Century Frankfurt Judengasse

Alexandre Kedar
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
The Judaization of the Israeli Land Regime: 1948–2008

Débora Kantor
2023-24 Theme: Jewish Visual Cultures

“Israel in Jewish Diaspora Non-Fiction Film”

Louis Kaplan

“Jewish Photographic Humor in Dark Times: Reflections on Visual First Responders to the Third Reich”

Tamar Kay

“3938 Chene St.: Research for the Basis of Writing a TV Series Bible

Shaul Kelner
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
“Strategic Sacralization in American Jewish Politics: The Contradictions of Cultural Mobilization in the American Soviet Jewry Movement”

Dov-Ber Kerler
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
By the Wayside: Contemporary Yiddish Poetry and the post-postvernacular

Amy Kerner
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Fragile Inheritance: Yiddish in Buenos Aires, 1930-1970

Dorothy Kim
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Medieval Women and English Exoticism

Reuven Kiperwasser
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Rabbis Between Two Empires

Melissa Klapper
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Pre-World War II Activism

Gil Klein
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Consecrating the City: Rabbinic Ritual Topography in the Late Antique Galilean Towns
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“The Roman Architecture of Empire and the Establishment of Rabbinic Space”

Madeline Kochen
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Property and Justice in the Talmud

Oren Kosansky
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Judeo-Arabic, Translation, and the Languages of Jewish Morocco

Rachel Kranson
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Jewish Voices, Women's Choices: Jewish Involvement in American Abortion Debates, 1967-2000

Michal Kravel-Tovi
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Materializing the New Jewish Self: Material Culture in the Jewish Conversion Process

Ehud Krinis
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
'Galut' and 'Ghurba' -- Historical and Existential Exile in the Thought of Bahya Ibn Paquda and Judah Halevi

Miriamne Krummel
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew: In and Out of Time

Mikhail Krutikov
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Discourse of the Shtetl and the "Jewish Renaissance" in Eastern Europe
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empire (Head Fellow)
Spaces of Memory: Imagining a Soviet Past in Post-Soviet Russian Jewish Writing
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Urban Space in Jewish Literature(s)

Jack Kugelmass
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Traveling in Yiddish

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Michael Langlois
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Pseudepigraphy Between Canonical and Non-Canonical Literature"

Kathryn Lavezzo
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Mapping Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: A Cultural Geography of English Antisemitism

Erica Lehrer
2025-26 Theme: Jews and Media
Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places, exploring heritage tourism, public scholarship, curatorial practices, and international partnership approaches to curating difficult knowledge and violent pasts in public places.

Marjorie Lehman
2013-14 Theme: Gender
The Gendered Rhetoric of Tractate Yoma

Scott L. Lerner
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
From Ghetto to Monumental Synagogue: Narrative and Jewish Identity in the Capitals of Risorgimento Italy

Mark Leuchter
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Scribal Refractions of Imperial Myth in Jewish Texts of the Persian Period"

Vladimir Levin
2023-24 Theme: Jewish Visual Cultures

“Muskeljudentum and Lachrymose Prayer: How Jewish Historians Constructed Fortress Synagogues”

Julian Levinson
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Metal. Granite. Uproar: Jewish Modernism in the Cauldron of New York City
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters (Co-head Fellow)
A Translation of Isaiah Spiegel’s flamen fun der erd (Flames from the Earth), an Autobiographical Novel of the Łódź Ghetto

Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literature Culture, exploring American Jewish literature, Yiddish modernism, biblical scholarship, Hollywood cinematic narratives, and translations of Yiddish survivor testimony and poetry.

Gal Levy
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"What Kind of Diversity Are We?": Reading Mizrahi from the Occident"

Lior Libman
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Culture: Comparative Approaches
"Jews in a Harness": The Socialist-Zionist Labor Movement and Hasidism

Tatjana Lichtenstein
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
A Life at Odds: The Private and Political World of a Prague Zionist

Adam Lowenstein

"The Jewish Horror Film: Taboo and Redemption"

Michael Lowy
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
Secularization/ Sacralization in Jewish-German Culture: Kafka, Benjamin, Bloch, Fromm

Howard Lupovitch
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Toward a New Hermeneutic of Religious Reform: The Life and Legacy of Aron Chorin

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Barbara Mann
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
The Meaning of Space: Between the Academy and Jewish Studies

Jessica Marglin
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
The Assarrafs Go to Court: Jews in the Moroccan Legal System during the Nineteenth Century

Laurie Marhoefer

2024-25 Theme: Jewish/Queer/Trans
Transgender People and the Nazi State

Evyatar Marienberg
2013-14 Theme: Gender
How Should Jews Do it? The (Hi)story of Traditional Jewish Sex Instruction

Roni Masel
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Disruptive Violence: The Gothic and the Grotesque in Hebrew and Yiddish

Devi Mays
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“Reorienting Imperial Jews: Constantinople at the Crossroads of Jewish Identities”
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
The Sephardi Connection: Ottoman Jews, the Opium Trade, and the Aftereffects
of Empire

Ariel Mayse
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
Expanding the Boundaries of Holiness: Conceptions of the Sacred in Modern Hasidic Spirituality

Joshua Miller
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages (Co-head Fellow)
Jewish Language
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
“A race in fragments, almost completely scattered”: The Translational Networks of Jewish Latin America

Deborah Dash-Moore
2023-24 Theme: Jewish Visual Cultures (Co-Head Fellow)

"Camera as a Passport"

Liron Mor
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"Intention: The Racialization of Truth and the Literality of the Other"

Regina Morantz-Sanchez
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Ghetto Girls and Reforming Men: Love, Inter-Marriage, Politics and the American Melting Pot, 1900-1930

Aviad Moreno
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
From Morocco, in Another Way: Aliyah and Other Jewish Migrations from Northern Morocco, 1860-2010

Alex Moshkin
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Migration and Translation: Contemporary Russian-Israeli Poetry

Golan Moskowitz

Jews and Drag: An American Cultural History, 1900-2020

Eva Mroczek
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
“The Other David: Between the Tanach and the Palmach”

Harriet Murav
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Archive of Violence: The Literature of Abandonment and the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)

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Rachel Rafael Neis
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Ancient Jewish Visual Culture
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity (Head Fellow)
The Reproduction of Species: Humans and Other Materials in Ancient Rabbinic "Biology"

2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

Multiplicity: Jewishness and Gender in Late Ancient West Asia

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Designing Politics: Architecture, Nationalism and Judaism in Post-'67 Jerusalem

Anita Norich,
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages (Co-Head Fellow)
Jewish Languages
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Kadya Moldovsky: Fact and Fiction
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Women's Imaginative Prose in Yiddish
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Translation Matters: Women's Prose Writing in Yiddish

Avraham Novershtern
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The Image of Yiddish in American Yiddish Discourse

Megan Nutzman
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Asclepius and Elijah: Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine

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Vanessa Ochs
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jewish Object Lessons

Avner Ofrath
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"A Language of One's Own: Writing Politically in Judeo-Arabic, c. 1860 - 1940"

Isaac Oliver
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Luke: Marginalized Jew in the Greco Roman Diaspora

Ranen Omer-Sherman
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Jewish Levantine Identities in the Contemporary Memoir & Fiction

Aharon Oppenheimer
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
The History of the Jewish People from Bar Kokhva till the Moslem Conquest

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S. J. Pearce
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
In the Taifa Kingdoms: The Medieval Poetics of Modern Nationalism

Yoav Peled

"Populist Protest: Class and Ethnicity in Mizrahi Political Behavior"

Daniel Picus
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Ink Sea, Parchment Sky: Reading Practices of Late Ancient Rabbis

Shachar Pinsker
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Specializing the Margins: The European Cities of Hebrew Modernism 1900-1930
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Urban Cafes, Gender and Modern Jewish Culture
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches (Head Fellow)
A Silent Language? Yiddish in Israel Literature

2025-26 Theme: Jews and Media
Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe and A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture, exploring Israeli Yiddish stories, the co-translation of Yiddish novels, and a transnational history of journalism, literature, and modern Jewish culture via the feuilleton.

Benjamin Pollack
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Esotericism and Enlightenment: Salomon Maimon between Politics and Metaphysics

Hannah Pollin-Galay
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
My Foreign Mother Tongue: Khurbn Yiddish and the Cultural Contours of Trauma

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Iris Rachamimov

Coccinellim: The Trans Community and the Transformations of the Israeli Gender Order in the 1970s and 1980s

Sivan Rajuan Shtang

2024-25 Theme: Jewish/Queer/Trans
Queer Feminist Mizrahi Art

Paul Reitter
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Clothes Make the German: Jewish Acculturation and the Practice of Everyday Life in Fin-de-Siècle Central Europe

Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Toward a Cultural History of the Astrolabe in Jewish Cultures

Bryan Roby
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Blackness and the Double-Consciousness of Arab Jews: A Comparative History of the Mizrahi and African-American Experience

2024-25 Theme: Jewish Queer Trans (Head Fellow)

Queer Jewish Futurities in Afro-Asian Israeli Poetry

Na’ama Rokem
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The Divided Horizon: German-Hebrew Bilingualism in the 20th Century

Eli Rosenblatt
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Enlightening the Skin: Yiddish Culture in the Black Atlantic

Laurence Roth
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Unpacking my Father's Bookstore: Collection, Commerce, Literature

Catherine Rottenberg
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Jews and Blacks in New York City

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Adi Saleem

2024-25 Theme: Jewish/Queer/Trans
Jews, Muslims, and the Coloniality of Gender and Sexuality

Gavin Schaffer
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Where is Home? Aliyah and British Jews since 1967

Uri Schreter

2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

Twentieth-century Jewish history, with particular attention to Yiddish language, music, and culture, bridging musicological scholarship, composition, performance, and filmmaking alongside creative collaborations across Jewish cultural spheres.

Daniel Schroeter

"The Global Politics of Moroccan Jewish Ethnicity Duringthe Era of King Hassan II"

Michael Schlie
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and the End of Political Theology

Rachel Seelig
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Motherless Tongues: German-Hebrew Literary Exchange

Naomi Seidman
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Freud and/in Yiddish

Yael Sela
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Music, Myth, and Aesthetic Sensation in Moses Mendelssohn’s Translation Enterprise

Sasha Senderovich
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Translating the "Soviet Jew" Between Russia and America

Dan Shapiro
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Turkic-Karaite Biblical Translations

Shayna Sheinfeld
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity

"Diversity in Jewish Leadership in the First and Second Centuries CE"

Naphtaly Shem-Tov

2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"Contemporary Mizrahi Theatre: Four Performing Mizrahi Frameworks in Israel"

Yael Shenker

2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City

"Representations of West Bank Settlements in the Fiction and Cinema of Israeli Religious Authors"

Ella Shohat

2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

"Language, Culture, and the Imaginary of Mizrahi Belonging: Re-membering the Arabic Past in the Hebrew Present"

Andrea Siegel
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
An Experimental Foray: Calendar for Mother and Child and Mother and Child Yearbook

Lisa Silverman
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Beyond Material Claims: Rhetorics of Restitution after the Holocaust

Nancy Sinkoff
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
'Last Witness': Lucy S. Dawidowics, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

Alexei Sivertsev
2014–15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Jews and the Roman Imperial Culture in Late Antiquity

2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity "Semiotic Communities: Signs and the Construction of Jewish Group Identities in the Second Temple Period"

Andrew Sloin
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Pale Fire: The Jewish Revolution in White Russia, 1917-1929

Sammy Smooha
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: The Palestinian-Arab Minority as the Litmus Test

Catherine M Soussloff

“Shadows of Diaspora: Material Culture at the Crossroads of Islamic Art and Jewish History”

Scott Spector
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization (Head Fellow)
The ‘Secularization Question’: Germans, Jews, and the Historical Understanding of Modernity

Simone Stirner

2024-25 Theme: Jewish/Queer/Trans
Give Us Our Roses: Queer Memory after National Socialism

Max Strassfeld
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Classically Queer: Eunuchs and Androgynes in Rabbinic Literature

2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity

Disciplining Life: The Life Cycle in Rabbinic Literature

Guy Stroumsa
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
The Secularized Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Nineteenth Century

Claude Stuczyniski
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Iberian Conversos: Victims, Agents, and Thinkers of Empire

Michael Swartz
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
The Economics of Ritual in Judaism in Late Antiquity

Vasileios Syros
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Visions of History and Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives

Ryan Szpiech
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern (Head Fellow)
He is Still Israel? Conversion and Sephardic Identity before and after 1391

Karolina Szymaniak
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Entangled Histories of Yiddish Polish Cultural Contacts in the First Half of the 20th Century (up to 1948)

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Juan Manuel Tebes
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Fluid Cultural Boundaries in Idumaea and the Formation of Jewish and Idumaean Identitie

Jindrich Toman
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Bohemia’s Jews and Their Decentered Empire

M Adryael Tong
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity "Difference and Circumcision"

Anna Torres
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Utopian Tongues: Jewish Anarchist Translation Practices

Ruth Tsoffar
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Cannibal Ideology: Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Colonialism in Hebrew Cultures

Yaron Tsur
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Language, Colonialism, and Nationalism - The Case of North African Jewry

Erez Tzfadia

"Mizrahim and the Local Politics of Ethnicity in Development Towns"

Roni Tzoreff

Israeli Art in the Age of 'Multiculturalism': The Exhibitions for Israel’s 50th Independence Day”

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Nick Underwood
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Plural Jewish Communities: Yiddish Culture and Jewish Migration in Post- Holocaust France

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Veerle Vanden Daelen
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Experiences of Jewishness and Clustering in a City as Perceived by Jews and non-Jews; The City of Antwerp since WWII in Comparative Perspective

Jeffrey Veidlinger
Director, 2015-2021
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Border Jew: Between Empires

Jason vonEhrenkrook
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jewish Statues: How Jews 'Used' Free-standing Sculpture in Greco-Roman Antiquity

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Kenneth Wald
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Political Behavior of American Jewry

Herbert Weisberg
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Distinctive Jewish-American Vote

Kalman “Kal” Weiser
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
From Yidishe visnshaft to Yiddish Studies: Max Weinreich in America

Chava Weissler
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Spirituality and Art in the Jewish Renewal Movement

Lenore Weitzman
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Politics of Jewish Divorce Law Reform: Agunah Activists in the US, Canada and Israe

Beth S. Wenger
2013-14 Theme: Gender (Convening Fellow)
Making American Jewish Men

Hana Wirth-Nesher
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Multilingual Jewish Writing: Hebrew-English Cross Scripts
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Cross Scripts: Hebrew Letters, English Writing

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Moshe Yagur
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Who was a Sepharadi? A view from the Cairo Geniza

Deborah Yalen
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Eradicating the Distinctions between City and Countryside: Jews, Urbanization and the Shtetl in Find-de-Siecle Russia and the Soviet Union
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Forging the Anti-Imperial Empire: Jews, Ethnographic Science, and the Soviet Family of Nations

Oren Yirmiya

2024-25 Theme: Jewish/Queer/Trans
Beyond the “Hoo/Hee” Binary: Studies in Third-Sex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Fluid Hebrew Literature

Sigal Yona