The Association for Jewish Studies congratulates recipients of the 2020–2021 AJS Dissertation Completion Fellowships:
ROBIN BULLER
Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Sephardi Immigrants in Paris: Navigating Community, Culture, and Citizenship between France and the Ottoman Empire, 1918–1945”
BAR GUZI
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
“Insisting on God: Naturalistic Theism in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Thought”
NECHAMA JUNI
Department of Religious Studies, Brown University
“Halakhic Women: Gender, Practice, and Obligation in American Orthodox Judaism”
TAMAR MENASHE
Department of History, Columbia University
“The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1495–1690”
CHAYA NOVE
Department of Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center
“Phonetic Contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish Vowels”
REBECCA POLLACK
Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center
“Contextualizing British Holocaust Memorials and Museums: Form, Content, and Politics”
MIRIAM SCHULZ
Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University
“Gornisht iz nit fargesn, keyner iz nit fargesn: Soviet Yiddish Culture, the Holocaust, and Networks of Memory, 1941–1991”
BEATA SZYMKOW
Department of History, Stanford University
“The Emergence of Polish Lwow: Violence and State Building in a Multiethnic City, 1918–1939”
MIRIAM-SIMMA WALFISH
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
“Rabbis, Parents, and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission in the Babylonian World”
Recipients of the AJS Dissertation Completion Fellowships receive a $20,000 stipend, as well as professional development opportunities and ongoing contact with mentors during the fellowship year. Particular attention will be dedicated to training the fellows to speak publicly, in an accessible fashion, about their work.
