2024-25 Theme: Jewish/Queer/Trans
Led by Head Fellow Bryan Roby (University of Michigan)
Affiliation & Project Titles
Rafael Balling, University of Washington, "A Story of Their Own: 20th-Century Jewish Trans Narratives in German and Yiddish"
Jonathan Branfman, Stanford University, “Passing Fancies: Jewish Specters and Chimeric Liberation in U.S. Passing Films”
Marce Butierrez, National Archive of Remembrance, Argentina, “The Lost Feygele Files: Repairing Queer and Trans Jewish Legajos”
Jessie DeGrado, University of Michigan, “Their Way is Queer”: Religion as Gender Transgression in Ancient West Asia”
Gil Engelstein, Northwestern University, “Split at the Root: The Jewish Question of Gay Liberation, 1970-1990.”
Sheer Ganor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, “A Place to Misfit Into: Valeska Gert’s Beggar Bar”
Anna Hajkova, University of Warwick, “Quartet: Story of Survival”
Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington, “Transgender People and the Nazi State”
Golan Moskowitz, Tulane University, “Jews and Drag: An American Cultural History, 1900-2020”
Rafe Neis, University of Michigan, “Multiplicity: Jewishness and Gender in Late Ancient West Asia”
Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv University, “Coccinellim: The Trans Community and the
Transformations of the Israeli Gender Order in the 1970s and 1980s”
Sivan Rajuan Shtang, Brandeis University, USA; Sapir Academic College and Shenkar Academic College, Israel, “Queer Feminist Mizrahi Art”
Bryan Roby, University of Michigan, “Queer Jewish Futurities in Afro-Asian Israeli Poetry”
Adi Saleem, University of Michigan, “Jews, Muslims, and the Coloniality of Gender and Sexuality”
Simone Stirner, Vanderbilt University, “Give Us Our Roses: Queer Memory after National Socialism”
Max Strassfeld, University of Arizona, “Disciplining Life: The Life Cycle in Rabbinic Literature”
Oren Yirmiya, University of California, Berkeley, “Beyond the “Hoo/Hee” Binary: Studies in Third-Sex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Fluid Hebrew Literature.”
