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Julian Adoff
Julian Adoff
Julian Adoff is a PhD Student in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019 as the first dual degree student and received an MA in Critical Studies and an MFA in Visual Studies. Julian maintains both research and studio practices, which often intertwine. His research centers around Cultural Theory, Jewish Studies, and the History of Graphic Design, with specific interest in how art functioned within the history of nationalism in Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Julian’s studio practice explores the notion that research is a creative act, where he explores the Jewish mysticism inherently found within the history of critical theory and art history and tries to tease these out by searching in and between texts.
Tova Benjamin
Tova Benjamin
Tova Benjamin is a PhD candidate in the History and Hebrew & Judaic Studies departments at NYU. There, she studies modern Jewish history, and the history of Late Imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union.
LeiAnna X. Hamel
LeiAnna X. Hamel
LeiAnna X. Hamel is a PhD Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, “Undisiciplined Bodies: Deviant Female Sexuality in Russian and Yiddish Literatures, 1877-1929,” analyzes the representation of women’s bodies and eroticism in Russian and Yiddish literatures in dialogue with medical, anthropological, and journalistic works. She is also the Editorial Associate forIn geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies.
Aleksandra Gajowy
Aleksandra Gajowy
Aleksandra Gajowy (she/her) holds a PhD in Art History from Newcastle University. Her doctoral research focused on queerness in Polish art since the 1970s. She is currently working on narratives of race, ethnicity, and Jewishness in Polish art since the nineteenth century.She was recently awarded an Association for Art History Research Grant for the projectFinding the Muranów Lily: Unearthing Queer Jewishness in Polish Art. Aleksandra's writing appeared in journals such asThird Text, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ World making, and Art Margins.She has forthcoming essays on queering Jerzy Grotowski's archive in Contemporary Theatre Review and on queer-feminist hospitality in socialist Poland in Oxford Art Journal.
Jeremiah Lockwood
Jeremiah Lockwood
Jeremiah Lockwood is a scholar and musician, working in the fields of Jewish studies, performance studies and ethnomusicology. He is the recipient of the 2021 Salo Baron New Voices in Jewish Studies Award and the 2019-20 recipient of the YIVO Kremen Memorial Fellowship in East European Arts, Music and Theater. His work engages with issues arising from peering into the archive and imagining the power of “lost” forms of expression to articulate keenly felt needs in the present.Jeremiah has played around the world as the leader of The Sway Machinery and guitarist in BalkanBeat Box. He was a recipient of a Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists and a Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Fellow.Jeremiah successfully defended his dissertation, which focuses on the work of cantors in the Brooklyn Chassidic community, in the Stanford Graduate School of Education in the Fall of 2020.
Julia Riegel
Julia Riegel
Julia Riegel is completing their PhD in Modern European History at Indiana University. Their research interests include modern Polish-Jewish cultural history, the Holocaust, and music during war and genocide. Their dissertation, “Catastrophe and Continuity: Musical Life in the Warsaw Ghetto,” focuses on musical life in the Warsaw Ghetto, using sources written and preserved by ghetto residents to reconstruct how musical life represented, reproduced, and contributed to the ghetto’s complex and contentious social and cultural dynamics. Their research has been supported by a Fulbright scholarship to Poland and a Sosland Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, among others. Their publications include an article on the musician, ethnographer, and journalist Menachem Kipnis in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 32 (2020) and articles for volumes III and VI of theEncyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. In 2021–2022, they will take up the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in Modern European History at Hollins University.
Nobuto Sato
Nobuto Sato
Nobuto Sato is a third-year Ph.D. student in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.He studied at Waseda University in Tokyo and Pennsylvania State University. Currently he works on U.S., Yiddish, and Japanese literatures in the early 20th century. In addition to David Bergelson and other Yiddish modernist writers, he is interested in American writer Henry Roth’s use of Yiddish-inflected English, Japanese writer Miyazawa Kenji’s use of onomatopoeia in his poems and children’s stories. In his dissertation, he plans to compare these different literary traditions exploring how global modernism depicted voice, hearing, and sound as a resistance to homogenizing forces of modernity.
Lelia Stradler
Lelia Stradler
Lelia Stadler is a second-year PhD student in history at Columbia University where she focuses on 20th century Jewish-Latin American history. More specifically, her current research studies marriage and divorce as key to understanding the intersection of the history of Jewish immigrant families and the history of Argentina as an immigrant nation in the making. She has completed a BA and MA in Latin American history at Tel Aviv University. Her recent publication, “In Search of Wandering Husbands: Jewish Migration, Desertion, and Divorce between Poland and Argentina, 1919–1939,” appeared in Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Latin America (Brill, 2020).
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