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Vanessa Freije
Associate Professor
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies
Susan A. Glenn
Professor
Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies
Liora Halperin
Professor
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies
Nathan E. Roberts
Lecturer Part-Time
Travis Wright
Assistant Professor

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Charity Urbanski, Medieval Monstrosity: Imagining the Monstrous in Medieval Europe (Routledge, 2023)
Hannah Frydman, “‘Confidences épistolaires de la Vénus publique’: Real-time Communication, Voyeuristic Reading, and Social Media’s Erotic Pre-History in the Petite Correspondance.” Forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 52, nos. 1–2, fall–winter 2023–24.
Hannah Frydman, “Reading Incognito: Periodicals, Sapphic Fictions, and Lesbian Communication," Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes 26, no. 1 (2022): 35-55, https://doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2022.2038515.
Hannah Frydman, “Capitalism’s Back Pages: ‘Immoral’ Advertising and Invisible Markets in Paris’s Mass Press, 1880–1940.” In Capitalism’s Hidden Worlds, 119–138. Edited by Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
“Forging beginnings: Commemorative cultures and the politics of the “First Aliyah” Journal of Israeli History 38:1 (2020) Special Issue on Beginnings and Endings: Narration and Emplotment in the History of Zionism and the State of Israel, 53-76.
The “Kidnapping” of Hildy McCoy: Child Adoption and Religious Conflict in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Bailkin, Jordanna. Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Print.
Liora R. Halperin, "Petah Tikva, 1886: Gender, Anonymity, and the Making of Zionist Memory," Jewish Social Studies, 23:1 (Fall 2017): 1-28
Johnson, Eric. "'Our Dear Kazan': Urban Initiatives and Imperial Legacies, 1774-1860." PhD diss., University of Washington, 2017.
“Majority and Minority Languages in the Middle East: The Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine,” in Minorities in the Arab World, ed. Laura Robson, (Syracuse University Press, 2016), 174-190.

Culture

Vanessa Freije

Susan A. Glenn

Liora Halperin

Nathan E. Roberts

Travis Wright