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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Hebrew University, Jerusalem. July 2020 - present
Senior Lecturer, tenure-track, Jewish History Department
Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 2017-2020
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows.
Israel Institute for Advanced Study, Jerusalem. 2016-2017
Fellow in the “Jewish Women’s Cultural Capital from the Late Middle Ages
through the Early Twentieth Century” research group.
Duke University, Durham, NC. 2014-2016
Perilman Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center for Jewish Studies
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 2008-2014
PhD, Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 2007-2008
One year of a two-year MA program in the Middle Eastern Studies Department.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 2003-2007
BA History, Certificate in Near Eastern Studies,
Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Oxford University, Christ Church College, Oxford. 2005-2006
Princeton-Oxford History Exchange Program.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-2017
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Prize for best PhD dissertation, 2015
NES Department, Princeton University
Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ben Gurion University (declined) 2014-2016
Simon and Ethel Flegg Postdoctoral Fellowship, McGill University (declined) 2014-2016
Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University (declined) 2014/5
Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship, Princeton University 2011/2
Johnson Garrett ’35 Memorial Fellowship, Princeton University 2008/9
Academic Merit Scholarship, Hebrew University 2007/8
Joseph R. Strayer Prize in Medieval Studies, Princeton University 2007
Carolyn L. Drucker Prize in Jewish Studies (2nd Place), Princeton University 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Charlatans, Imposters and Tricksters in the Medieval World.
Hebrew university Spring 2021
Readings in the Documentary Geniza (MA class)
Hebrew University Spring 2021
Introduction to the World of the Cairo Geniza
Hebrew University Fall 2020
The Family and Life Cycle among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World
Hebrew University Spring 2020
Introduction to the History of Jews in the Medieval Islamic World
Hebrew University Fall 2019, 2020
Law and Community among Jews in the Medieval Islamic World
Hebrew University Fall 2018, 2020
Jews and Muslims, Judaism and Islam
Duke University Spring 2015, 2016
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA:
The value of small things, Q&A Wednesday: Blog of the genizah Research Unit
Women’s Letters from the Cairo Geniza – a podcast. Interview by Prof. Miriam Goldstein.
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-zvryv-d71aea
(with Moshe Yagur) “The Cairo Geniza and Facebook” AJS Perspectives (Spring 2018)
http://perspectives.ajsnet.org/the-oldnew-media-issue/the-cairo-geniza-a...
“A Murder in Tyre, Intercession in Egypt” (Heb.) – in Haaretz’s Social History Workshop blog.
https://www.haaretz.co.il/blogs/sadna/1.6156519
“Protect me for (the tie of) blood and milk that is between us”
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-geniza...
“If there is a paradise, it is Damascus”
https://genizablues.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/if-there-is-a-paradise-it-is-damascus/
RESEARCH GROUPS, CONFERENCES AND PANELS ORGANIZED:
Kinship and Community in the Early and Medieval Islamic Mediterranean
An international research group sponsored by the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH) at Haifa University. The group will hold three meetings, two at Haifa and one at Oxford during 2018-2021. Group website: http://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/index.php/academic-activity/research-groups/16-academic-activity/118-kinship-and-community-in-the-early-and-medieval-islamic-mediterranean. (Organized with Uriel Simonsohn).
Masculine Journeys/Journeying Masculinities
A double panel in the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2018
(Organized with Ruth Mazo Karras).
Emotions and Identities in Jewish Communities along the Medieval Mediterranean
A double panel in the biannual conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Ghent, 2017 (organized with Miriam-Esther Wagner).
Individuals and Legal Institutions around the Medieval Mediterranean
International conference at Duke University, 7-8 March 2016.