Applications are now open for Making Life Worth Living: Rome Study Abroad – Winter 2023! Apply by June 15 and learn more at the website below. Study Abroad: Rome

Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich’s new book, “How the Soviet Jew Was Made,” published by Harvard University Press in May, delves into post-revolutionary Russian and Yiddish literary, cinematic, and journalistic sources and recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure, not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity.

Christian Novetzke has been awarded a Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Grant for Summers 2023 and 2024. The grant, which he also previously received in 2013, will allow him to work on his new book project titled, “A Flower of Fire: Religion, Caste, and Gender in the Political Poetry of Savitribai Phule (1831–1897). In Jan. 2022,

In a November 10 conversation hosted by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Liora Halpern discusses her latest book, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” (Stanford University Press, 2021), which tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (mashavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine.

Radhika Govindrajan, director of the South Asia Center and associate professor at the Jackson School and Department of Anthropology, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Diana Forsythe Prize for her book, “Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) by the American Anthropological Association. The Forsythe prize is given to the

Voices: Data from an Expansive Christian Community is a structured repository of people, published media, and affiliate organizations that expands the voices of American Evangelicalism and represents a diverse, ecumenical, and global vision of Christianity. The data elevates diverse content creators across disciplines who engage in smart and significant conversation about Christianity and its intersections

Book Talk: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture with Mika Ahuvia, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies & Comparative Religion in conversation with author and journalist Sigal Samuel. Thursday, October 14, 2021, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time RSVP for the event here Did you know that, just like in modern-day America, most people in ancient times believed in angels? Prayers to angels, and

As the Jackson School prepares for the return of in-person classes this autumn, it also takes the time to reflect on its diverse contributions to public discourse.  Below are recent known media mentions of Jackson School faculty, staff, and programs from September 2020 to September 2021. Please explore and enjoy! Sept. 13, 2021 – American

“Public engagement is a core mission for the Jackson School of International Studies. In the midst of the complex global challenges that we face, it is critical that we train students to engage with broad public audiences.” Want to write an Op-Ed on whether the U.S. is an empire? Craft a policy memo on the

Professor Naomi Sokoloff has published a piece for the Jewish Book Council’s “Paper Brigade Daily” titled “What Poets Write About When They Write About Hebrew” focusing on a selection of verses in translation from Hebrew that comment on the Hebrew language. The article examines Jews with different backgrounds, as well as Arab citizens of Israel