Professional Appointments
2023- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Fedor Lynnen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2022- Senior Research Associate, cross-affiliated at the Department of Jewish Studies and the Slavic and Eastern European Studies Department, University of Potsdam, Germany
Postdoc Network Brandenburg - Individual Research Grant funded by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science
2021- Senior Research and Teaching Associate - Department of Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, Poland
2018 - 2022 Senior Research and Teaching Associate - Slavic and Eastern European Studies Department, University of Potsdam, Germany
2017 - 2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Slavic and Eastern European Studies Department, University of Potsdam, Germany
2014 - 2016 Huppert & Co. Law Office, Jerusalem, Israel
legal counselor, Polish citizenship confirmation and restitution
2011 - 2012 Anne Frank Zentrum, Berlin, Germany
European Voluntary Service
Education
Ph.D 2017 Tel Aviv University, Israel and Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
cotutelle | summa cum laude | history
M.A 2011 University of Warsaw, Poland
Master of Arts in International Studies
| major: Latin American Studies, Modern History
Awards
2020 - Best Book Award of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association
2017 - Best Dissertation Award of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association
2015 - Encouragement Award of the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Fellowships and Research Grants
- 12.2022 Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- 12.2019-1.2020 Visiting Professor, Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa, Israel
- 9.2019 Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute in Washington, USA. Research at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York
- 2018- 2019 Posen Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Avraham Hartman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (declined)
- 8.2018-9.2018 Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland
- 3.2018 Visiting Research Fellowship “Jews in the Americas” at the University of Florida, USA
- 3.2017-6.2017 POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland. POLIN Research Fellowship. Funded by the William K. Bowes Foundation and the Taube Philanthropies
- 2016-2017 Doctoral Scholarship of the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- 2015-2016 Doctoral Scholarship of the Shlomo Glas and Fanny Balaban-Glas Foundation
- 2015-2016 Doctoral Scholarship of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- 2012-2015 Doctoral Scholarship of the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
- 6.2010-7.2010 Research Internship at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, USA.