Recent Dissertations

Allweil, Yael (Ph.D. 2011, University of California, Berkeley) Building a Home-Land: Zionism as a Regime of Housing, 1860–2005

Adviser: Nezar AlSayyad

Barnett, Victoria J. (Ph.D. 2012, George Mason University) “Fault Lines”: An Analysis of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1933–1948

Adviser: Richard Rubenstein

Bondurant, Stacy D. (Ph.D. 2012, George Washington University) Gone to Texas: Eastern-European Jewish and Italian Immigrants in Urban Texas, 1900–1924

Adviser: Tyler G. Anbinder

Cohen, Ariel Johanna (Ph.D. 2012, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota) Women’s Resiliency, Power, and Leadership: A Study of Jewish Immigrant Women of the Progressive Era

Adviser: Kate Boyle

Dolber, Brian Craig (Ph.D. 2011, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Sweating for Democracy: Working-Class Media and the Struggle for Hegemonic Jewishness, 1919–1941

Adviser: Robert W. McChesney

Falk, Annie (Ph.D. 2012, Columbia University) The Imagination of the Jewish Table in German and German Jewish Literature, 1530–1914.

Advisers: Mark Anderson, Dorothea von Muecke

Gehl Rouchouze, Charlotte (Ph.D. 2012, Northwestern University) Representations of the Twentieth-Century Jewish Departure out of North Africa

Adviser: Michal P. Ginsburg

Goldberg, David Russell (Ph.D. 2012, Columbia University) Museum-Based Teacher Education: Teacher Meaning-Making at a Jewish Heritage Museum.

Adviser: William Gaudelli

Greenberg, Erik Marc (Ph.D. 2012, University of California, Los Angeles) A Prophet and His People: Israel Zangwill and His American Public, 1892–1926 and Beyond

Advisers: David N. Myers, Janice L. Reiff

Halperin, Liora Russman (Ph.D. 2011, University of California, Los Angeles) Babel in Zion: The Politics of Language Diversity in Jewish Palestine, 1920–1948

Adviser: David N. Myers

Kirsh, Mary Fraser (Ph.D. 2012, University of Wisconsin, Madison) The Lost Children of Europe: Narrating the Rehabilitation of Child Holocaust Survivors in Great Britain and Israel

Adviser: Mary Louise Roberts

Legutko, Agnieszka (Ph.D. 2012, Columbia University) Possessed by the Other: Dybbuk Possession and Modern Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century Jewish Literature and Beyond.

Adviser: Jeremy Dauber

Leite, Naomi Maystar (Ph.D. 2011, University of California, Berkeley) Global Affinities: Portuguese Marranos (Anusim), Traveling Jews, and Cultural Logics of Kinship

Adviser: Nelson H. H. Graburn

Liu, Yulin (Ph.D. 2012, Trinity International University) Temple Purity in 1–2 Corinthians in the Context of the Jewish and Greco-Roman World

Adviser: Eckhard Schnabel.

Lutjens, Richard Newton, Jr. (Ph.D. 2012, Northwestern University) Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945

Adviser: Peter Hayes.

Maron, Jeremy (Ph.D. 2011, Carleton University) Unbridgeable Barriers: The Holocaust in Canadian Cinema

Advisor: André Loiselle

Mesler, Katelyn Nicole (Ph.D. 2012, Northwestern University) Legends of Jewish Sorcery: Reputations and Representations in Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe

Adviser: Richard Kieckhefer

Otero Toledo, Janet (Ph.D. 2011, Florida International University) La kabala dentro del discurso contemporaneo y urbano: El ejemplo de Marcos Ricardo Barnatan

Adviser: Santiago Juan-Navarro

Patel, Youshaa (Ph.D. 2012, Duke University) Muslim Distinction: Imitation and the Anxiety of Jewish, Christian, and Other Influences

Adviser: Ebrahim Moosa

Ponichtera, Sarah (Ph.D. 2012, Columbia University) Yiddish and the Avant-Garde in American Jewish Poetry

Advisers: Jeremy Dauber; Michael Golston

Strauss, Alena Janet (Ph.D. 2011, University of Toronto) Experiencing Everyday Prejudice of a Concealable Stigma: Jews in a Non-Jewish World

Adviser: Ardra Cole

Wassner, Dalia (Ph.D. 2012, Northeastern University) Argentine Intellectuals as Harbingers of Modernity: The Democratization Projects of Marcos Aguinis

Advisers: Heather Streets-Salter

Werlin, Steven H. (Ph.D. 2012, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) The Late Ancient Synagogues of Southern Palestine

Adviser: Jodi Magness