About
Cassandra Euphrat Weston is a doctoral candidate in History and an Endelman/Gitelman Fellow in Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, "White Slavers, Bolsheviks, and Special Prosecutors: Sex, Jews, and the American State, 1907-1929" brings together American Jewish history, the history of sexuality, and histories of the American carceral state. She was a Lapidus Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for Jewish History in 2023-2024 and has received additional research support from the Historical Society of Phialdelphia, the American Jewish Historical Society, the University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, the American Jewish Archives, UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, and the University of Michigan's Rackham Graduate School.
