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My project explores the unconventional participation of Ottoman socialists in Ottomanism, which was a branch of imperial nationalism, and discusses the ways in which separatist nationalism,...

This project seeks to make two interventions. First, the demonstrated cultural, juridical, and historical connection between Jewish writers in Yiddish and in Russian in the Revolutionary period...

“A Map of This Place: Resurgence and Remembering Removal in Armenian, Palestinian, and American Indian/First Nations Literatures. My dissertation develops a connective study of how memories of...

My project is a study of post-Holocaust Polish-Jewish literature a form of witnessing, and in particular, as a form of reconstructing and preserving lost cultural landscapes. In putting disregarded...

The title of Naomi's research project is: Distant Proximities: Whiteness and Worldedness in Contemporary Jewish Literature Naomi writes: My project...brings together post-1961 Jewish texts...

The title of Diana's research project is: Strategies of Silence: Representations of Jewish Poles in Polish Literature since the 1980s Diana writes:  In this project, I examine instances of...

Hapsatou Wane is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus in the Department of...

Hans Haacke, Germany, and the Public Sphere Beginning with a provocative 1974 investigation into the provenance of Manet’s Bunch of Asparagus still life, which uncovered the...

"The Crisis of All Nations": Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the Emergence of Anglo-Jewish Zionism (1789-1917) “Was it not an Englishwoman, George Eliot, who invented Zionism, and who,...

Jewish Cosmopolitanism and Acculturation in the British Imagination, 1655-1753 The modern concept of toleration, of a government allowing the practice of non-state religion, developed in...

Working-Class Media and the Struggle for ‘Hegemonic Jewishness,’ 1919-1938 My dissertation explores the relationship between changes in the mass media system and the politics of the U.S....

Intimate Strangers: Intermarriage among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants in Germany, 1875-1935 In my dissertation, I intend to show how intermarriage among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants...

Decolonizing Autobiographies: Experience in African Diaspora Women’s Autobiographies Traditionally, African and Diaspora women’s autobiographies are cornered in the peripheries of world...

Excerpt from Jenelle's proposal. My research project examines the difference and tension between traditional memorials (by which I mean state and corporate-sponsored structures) and personal or...

Exiled Nostalgia:  Remembrances of Iraq in the Improvised Songs of Iraqi-Jewish Women  Habiba, an elderly Iraqi-Jewish woman, sits on her balcony in Pardes Katz, an impoverished...

Emergency Aesthetics: Contemporary Commemorative Practices and the Politics of Memory  (snippet of Jenelle's proposal) In my proposed study, I aim to show how positioning traumatic events...

Except from Alex's proposal: I specialize in Polish, Spanish, and American languages and literatures, particularly in poetry and literature of the Holocaust, which first appeared to be an...

My research focuses on ways out of traumatic silence across generations in contemporary French and Francophone Algerian fiction. While the stakes representing trauma as a way of legitimizing one's ...

States of Reform: Orthodoxy, Change and Jewish Religious Activism in Israel My dissertation research investigates ways in which Orthodox Jews in Israel are re-envisioning the Jewishness of...

Migrating Memories: Power and Transcultural Memory in Contemporary South Asian Fiction As a scholar of German-Jewish descent, my academic research has focused on the dynamics of traumatic...

Wayward Women: Deviant Female Sexuality in Russian and Yiddish Literatures, 1870-1930 Alexander Kuprin’s novel The Pit, published in the literary almanac Zemlya(1909-1915), centers on the...

Creative Resistance and Performances of Memory: Latin America in the Era of Neoliberalism In1981, seven years into Chile’snearly seventeen-year dictatorship, the Chilean art collective CADA...

Awarded annually to an outstanding graduate student completing a dissertation in the field of Jewish Studies and/or Holocaust Genocide and Memory Studies. Made possible by the generosity of the...