Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
University of Michigan
Frankel Judaic Studies
202 South Thayer Street
Ann Arbor
MI
48104
United States
ABOUT
I am an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies with the Frankel Institute. My focus is on Middle Eastern and North African Jewish history in the modern era. After earning my PhD at the University of Manchester (UK), I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Michigan's Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies. My research interests include the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in Israel/Palestine, 19th and 20th century North African history, and the legacy of French colonialism on Arab and Jewish identity. My first book, The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966 (Syracuse University Press, 2015), provides an extensive history of social justice protests by Middle Eastern Jews in Israel.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Minorities
Ethnic Groups
Zionism
Arab Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Maghreb Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Israel
Maghreb
Palestine
Specialties
Mizrahi/Oriental Jewry In Israel
Palestinian Citizens Of Israel
Amazigh/Berber Identity Politics In Morocco
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (fluent)
French (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Manchester
MA
| 2008
| Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Manchester
BA
| 2007
| Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Abstracts
Writing on the Margins: Leftist Mizrahi Political Thought in the 1950s and 1960s
Expressions of Belonging and Identity in Mizrahi Social Justice Protests 1948 – 1958
Repatriation and Transgressive Migrations of Mizrahi Jews from Israel to the Arab World
