Biography
I am a doctoral candidate broadly interested in histories of medicine, childhood, gender, and Eastern European Jewry. My dissertation explores transformative Jewish medical projects in interwar Eastern Europe. Specifically, I examine the importance of healthy women (mothers) and children to creating a strong Jewish race and rebuilding a Jewish community almost destroyed by World War I and the Russian Civil War.
Education
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Boston University
Field
- European History
- Gender and Women’s History
MA Title
- ‘No need to fear the witch, she’s just a dirty, unkempt baba’: The League of the Militant Godless and Their Attack on the Peasant Domestic.
Working Dissertation Title
- Healthy Bodies, Upright Citizens: The OZE, Jewish Women and Children, and Inter-War Medical Humanitarianism, 1914-1939
Selected Awards
- George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship
- Rifkind Graduate Research Fellowship at the Center for Jewish History, New York
Courses Taught (as TA)
- History 219 – The American Jewish Experience: From Shtetl to Suburb, Professor Tony Michels, Fall 2021