Graduate Fellows
Grad Fellows: Sephardic Culture: Music, Language & Literature from Spain to Seattle
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesGraduate Fellows Molly FitzMorris, Vivian Mills and Sarah Riskind share their research on the topics of Ladino language, Sephardic music, and the early-modern literature of Spain.
Grad Fellows: Israeli Diplomacy, Jewish Refugees and Sephardic Soldiers in the 20th & 21st Centuries
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesGraduate Fellows Samuel Gordon, Pablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado, and Ozgur Ozkan share their research on migration, the Israeli state, and military participation in this academic panel.
Grad Fellows: Reviving Languages & Teaching the Middle East
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesGraduate Fellows Rob Keener and Sara Molaie share their research on human rights issues and diplomacy in Israel and other countries in the Middle east.
4/17 COLLOQUIUM | International Politics, History, and Jews
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesGraduate fellows Berkay Gülen and Kerice Doten-Snitker share their research on Israeli foreign policy and anti-Semitism in medieval Europe.
5/21 COLLOQUIUM | Jewish Memory, History & Thought
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Vincent Calvetti-Wolf, Pablo Jairo Tutillo and Hayim Katsman as they share their research.
6/1 COLLOQUIUM | Regional and Global Dimensions to Israeli Foreign Policy: Shifting Relationships with the Palestinian Territories, Ghana, and Taiwan
Zoom 0Grad fellows Bret Windhauser, Francis Abugbilla and Eryk Waligora offer perspectives on Israeli foreign policy.
6/3 COLLOQUIUM | Violence, Victimhood & the “Natural Order” in the Armenian Genocide & Holocaust
Zoom 0Graduate fellows Oya Rose Aktas and Derek Wiebke discuss victim / perpetrator relationships in history and literature.
6/5 COLLOQUIUM | Tracing Unruly Edges: Jewish Embodiment from Babylonia to the Mediterranean
Zoom 0Graduate fellows Canan Bolel, Jennifer Hunter and Erin Gilbert talk about bodily integrity and displacement in the ancient world and the 19th century.
STUDENT EVENT | Teaching computers to read Ladino, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews
RSVP for Zoom linkHow do you teach a computer to read an endangered language -- and a language that many people don't even know exists? While machine learning technology has enabled us to read and research texts online in many languages, there's one language that our computers and smartphones have yet to learn: Ladino, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews.
GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Sephardic Experiences of Modernity: Newspapers, Migrants and Midwives
Zoom 02020-2021 graduate fellows discuss Ladino newspapers, Ottoman Jews in Seattle, and Jewish midwives at the turn of the 20th century.
GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Tradition and Continuity: Jewish Cultural History Through Art, Music and Travelogue
Graduate fellows Ke Guo, Abby Massrano and Jeffrey Haines present on modern Sephardic music, ancient art, and medieval writing.
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Political and Archival Policies: International and Local Perspectives
Zoom 0Graduate fellows Francis Abugbilla and Lili Brown present about Israeli foreign policy in Africa and archiving local Sephardic history.
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Reimagining Jewish Narratives in New Contexts: From Antiquity to the Present
Zoom 0Graduate fellows Aaron Carpenter, Shelby Handler, and Forrest Martin present their research in 20-minute presentations.
5/25 WORKSHOP | ‘Anglo-Saxons of the East’: Armenian Self-Definition… with Ara Daglian
Thomson 317 on the UW Campus 2023 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesAra Daglian examines a work of early twentieth century Armenian-American identity using analytical lenses developed in Jewish Studies to understand how American Jews grappled with redefining themselves.
5/30 — 6/1 TALKS | ’22 — ’23 Graduate Fellow Colloquia
Zoom 02022-2023 graduate fellows discuss Jewish demons in folklore, Armenians in Jerusalem, non-Zionist economic investment in Mandatory Palestine, and much more.