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Nir Evron will give a talk at the Center of American West on January 29, 2025. Register by January 21 to attend Prof. Evron's talk: "Owen Wister's The Virginian: The Western Genre and the Shaping of the Modern Human-Animal

Samira Mehta has joined the advisory board of the Jewish of Color Collecting Project at the Smithsonian-affiliated Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Samira Mehta’s article “The December Dilemma: Less Oy, More Joy” was chosen as a Revealer Winter Holiday Favorite. With Hanukkah starting on December 25 this year, explore the myriad ways Jewish-Christian interfaith families

Samira K. Mehta was recently interviewed about Chrismukkah in Moment Magazine."Although Chrismukkah observers sometimes fuse elements of Christmas and Hanukkah more literally—resulting in quirky creations such as eggnog sufganiyot

Samira K. Mehta recently gave an interview of the role of relationships in the writing process to for the University of Florida’s Writing It! Podcast. The conversation focuses on fellowships, writing groups, writing coaches, and

Prof. Yonatan Malin is presenting a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies this week. The title of his paper is “The Musical Tapestry of Klezmer: A Computational Approach to Beregovski’s Jewish

Samira K. Mehta was a guest on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's program "God Forbid" to discuss how the U.S. elections will shape abortion access in Australia.Listen to the interview here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/

Hilary Falb Kalisman was recently awarded a Center for Humanities & the Arts Faculty Fellowship. The application closely reflects external applications of the National Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's latest publication, a chapter on "Reexamining the Transatlantic Scholarship on Jewish History” was just published in German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship