Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay 2021-2022 tb2429@columbia.edu Tzafrir Barzilay is interested in the development of the common perceptions of Jews and Christians, and their change throughout the Midde Ages, in particular around…

Dr. Vicky Hioureas 2021-2025 hioureas@princeton.edu Vicky Hioureas was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, “Don’t you see the murderers?: Representations of Violence and the Shaping of…

Dr. Chris Prejean 2021-2025 chrisprejean@ucla.edu Chris PreJean (Ph.D. 2021, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) is a historian of the pre-modern Middle East. His work discusses the legal problems that…

Dr. Umberto Signori 2020-2025 signori.umberto@gmail.com Umberto Signori holds a doctorate in Early Modern History from the University of Milan. He was formerly a fellow at the Italian Institute for Historical…

Dr. Federico Ugolini 2020-2025 fugolini@campus.haifa.ac.il Federico Ugolini received a PhD in Roman Archaeology from King’s College London. His research interests include ancient harbour archaeology, with a focus on the Adriatic…

Dr. Shlomit Bechar 2019-2021 Shlomit has received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In her dissertation she studied the relationship between political change and material culture and the…

Dr. Inbar Graiver 2019-2020 Inbar Graiver received her PhD in 2017 from the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation on asceticism and self-transformation in…

Dr. Renard Gluzman 2018-2020 I started my professional life by creating video games. I was a teacher of game design and development at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design…

Dr. Anna Gutgarts 2018-2019 Anna received her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation, awarded the Hans Wiener Prize, examined urban development in Frankish Jerusalem, particularly focusing on…