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Humanities Division
History Department
Jewish Studies
Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
Associate Professor
Faculty
Jewish Studies
Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)
Regular Faculty
Jewish Studies and Judaism
Middle East Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Stevenson College Academic Building
277
Spring 2024: Wednesdays 12-2pm and by appointment
Stevenson Academic Services
Ph.D. in History, UCLA, 2015.
C.Phil. in History, UCLA, 2012.
MA in History, UCLA, 2012.
B.A. in French (major) and Middle Eastern Studies (major), Wellesley College, 2009.
Modern Jewish History
Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East
Modern Jewish History
North Africa and the Middle East
Labor History
Transnational Jewish Political Activism
Colonialism
Nationalism
Third Worldism
Syncretism
Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2018)
Hellman Fellowship for AY 2017-2018
Posen Society of Fellows award for 2014-2016
UCLA International Institute International Fieldwork Fellowship for AY 2013-2014
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Bluma Appel Fellowship for AY 2013-2014
Ralph and Sarah Monkarsh Graduate Fellowship travel grant Summer 2013
American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR) travel fellowship Summer 2013
Takiff Family Foundation Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fall 2013
UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Roter Research Travel Grant Summer 2012
FLAS grant to study Hebrew Summer 2011
Chancellor’s Prize to support Summer research 2011 and 2012
Fulbright Fellowship to Morocco, AY 2009-2010
The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.
“Fissures and Fusions: Moroccan Jewish Communists before, during, and after WWII,” in On the Margins of the Holocaust, Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum, Eds. (Stanford University Press, 2019).
“Jewish Radicals of Morocco: Case Study for a New Historiography,” in Jewish Social Studies Vol. 23, No. 30, Spring/Summer 2018: 67-100.
“Multivariable Casablanca: Vichy Law, Jewish Diversity, and the Moroccan Communist Party” in Hespéris-Tamuda special issue “Jews of Morocco and the Maghreb: History and Historiography,” Vol. LI – Fascicule 3, (2016): 13-34.
“Packed in Twelve Cases: The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair” with Frances Malino in Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture Society n.s. 19, no. 1 (Fall 2012): 53-69.
"Edmond El Maleh". The Literary Encyclopedia. 18 April 2013. [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13227]
Numerous translations for Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds., Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History of the Ottoman Judeo-Spanish World & Its Diaspora, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014).
"Beyond Casablanca: Jews in Vichy North Africa," Tajine podcast episode 4, Feb. 12, 2014.
http://tajine.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/02/casablanca-anniversary-vichy-north-africa.html
"Jewish Citizens on Exhibit," Ottoman History Podcast, episode 126, Oct. 17, 2013.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2010/09/jewish-education-ottoman-empire-alliance-israelite.html
HIS 74A: Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Ancient to Early Modern
HIS 074: Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures
HIS 74B: Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Early Modern to Present
HIS 76: The Holocaust
HIS 185C: Communism, Nationalism, & Zionism: Comparative Radical Jewish Politics
HIS 185O: The Holocaust and the Arab World
HIS 194K: Jewish Radical Movements
HIS 194L: Exile, Diaspora and Displacement: Jewish Memoir from North Africa and the Middle East
HIS 194V: Fascism and Anti-Fascism: The Global Spanish Civil War
HIS 185I: Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period
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