Scholarship

Teaching Appointments:

Sarah Lawrence College – Visiting Professor, 2022-present

    • Jewish Mystics, Rabble-Rousers, and Heretics
    • Jews of New York
    • Documenting Jewish Lives: Past as Prologue
    • People of the Book: Jews and Literature
    • The Many Faces of Jewishness: Representations of Jews Through the Ages
    • Mobility and Modernization: Exploring Received Narratives in American Jewish History
    • Thinking Beyond Feminism: Reimagining Gender and Sexuality Across Jewish History
    • In a Strange Land: The Making of the Jewish Diaspora

The New School for Social Research – Adjunct Professor, 2019-2021

    • Jewish History
    • Beyond the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration, 1875-Present
    • Capstone project: American Jewish Experiences of the Civil War

The Cooper Union – Adjunct Professor, 2020

    • The Making of Modern Society

Selected Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library (2023-2024)

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, NYU College Core Program (2022-2023) – Declined in order to accept teaching position at Sarah Lawrence College

Prize for Innovative Scholarship in Gender and Jewish Studies, Women’s Caucus, Association for Jewish Studies (2022)

Honoree, Howard Friedman Graduate Essay Competition, Skirball Cultural Center (2022)

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Association for Jewish Studies (2021-2022)

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Association of University Women (2021-2022) – Declined in order to accept AJS Dissertation Fellowship

Finalist, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Center for Engaged Scholarship (2021-2022)

Graduate Research Fellowship, American Academy of Jewish Research (2021-2022)

The Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship and the Dora and Mayer Tendler Endowed Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Fellowship in American Jewish Studies, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (2020-2021)

Bertha V. Corets Memorial Fellowship, American Jewish Archives (2019-2020)

Global Research Initiative Fellowship, New York University (2019)

Henry M. MacCracken Doctoral Fellowship, New York University (2013-2019)

Elizabeth Welt Trahan Scholarship, Sarah Lawrence College (2011)


Public History Writing:

November 2017. “A Historian Fights to Protect Healthcare in Trump’s America,” The Activist History Review: https://activisthistory.com/2017/11/08/a-historian-fights-to-protect-healthcare-in-trumps-america/

October 2017. “Review: Hitler’s American Model,” The Activist History Review: https://activisthistory.com/2017/10/25/review-hitlers-american-model/

July 2016. “See the ‘Merchant of Venice:’ Go Jewish and Black, in 1870s D.C.,” Jewniverse: http://thejewniverse.com/2016/see-the-merchant-of-venice-go-jewish-and-black-in-1870s-d-c/

June 2016. “How Online (((Jews))) Are Standing Up to Bigotry with Parentheses,” Jewniverse: http://thejewniverse.com/2016/how-online-jews-are-standing-up-to-bigotry-with-parentheses/

April 2016. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Summer Cameo in ‘The Merchant of Venice,” Jewniverse: http://thejewniverse.com/2016/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-summer-cameo-in-the-merchant-of-venice/.

April 2016. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Yiddish, with Jewish Slaves,” Jewniverse: http://thejewniverse.com/2016/uncle-toms-cabin-in-yiddish-with-jewish-slaves/.

February 2016 “The Premier Ladies’ Magazine for the 19th-Century American Jewess,” Jewniverse: http://thejewniverse.com/2016/the-premier-ladies-magazine-for-the-19th-century-american-jewess/.