Sabina Ali
Ph.D. Candidate, Religious Studies
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- alisab@iu.edu
Research Interests
Religion, race and settler colonialism in the U.S., particularly settler articulations of indigeneity and relationship to land
Ph.D. Students
Michael Aronson
Ph.D. Student, Media School
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- mfaronso@iu.edu
Research Interests
Representations of religion media and materiality; educational media; media historiography; radio; television; film; print; sound; cultural studies
Jessica Foster
Ph.D. Student, History
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- fostje@iu.edu
Research Interests
Holocaust Literature; Jewish resistance in the Holocaust; survival and self-preservation; suffering and the body; material culture
Eliza Frenkel
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- efrenkel@iu.edu
Research Interests
Objects of post-soviets in migrations and exile, translation of commemoration forms from Western to Eastern European contexts, mass grave memorial sites, holocaust tour guides, ecological humanities, and visual anthropology
Marian Gabani Gimenez
Ph.D. Student, Anthropology
Ph.D. Minor in Jewish Studies
- mgabani@iu.edu
Research Interests
Evangelists in Brazil; Christian Zionism; Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism; linguistic landscapes; material religion
Steven Kaplin
Ph.D. Candidate, Religious Studies
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- skaplin@iu.edu
Research Interests
American Judaism; Jewish spirituality and mysticism; Hasidism and neo-Hasidism; Jewish feminism; Jewish thought and theology
Jonathan Lanz
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- jlanz@iu.edu
Research Interests
Holocaust studies; modern Jewish history; histories of children and childhood; memory and memorialization
Joanna Martin
Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- jem35@iu.edu
Meghan Paradis
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- meparadi@iu.edu
Research Interests
German and Austrian Jewish women’s social and cultural history; the history of emotions; motherhood and girlhood; and the cultural construction of gendered adolescence, delinquency, and crisis
Brian Quinn
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- briquin@iu.edu
Research Interests
Political, cultural, and intellectual history of twentieth-century Germany; racism, antisemitism, and understandings of national identity in modern Europe; German colonialism and its afterlives; history of the Holocaust and Holocaust memory in the post-war world
Claire Richters
Ph.D. Student, Germanic Studies
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- crichte@iu.edu
Meghan Riley
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- rileyme@iu.edu
Research Interests
Jewish Europe; France; the Holocaust; the Second World War; humanitarianism
Dale Spicer
Ph.D. Candidate, Religious Studies
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- daespice@iu.edu
Research Interests
Classical Arabic biography; Al-Jahiz and Mu’tazili Theology; religion and the body; early Muslim Asceticism
Daniel Swanson
Ph.D. Student, Linguistics
Ph.D. Minor, Jewish Studies
- dangswan@iu.edu
Research Interests
Translation and the Bible; Hebrew language
The College of Arts