C.V.

currently: Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature / University of California, Los Angeles / Los Angeles, CA
Languages: German (C1); Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew (reading); Yiddish (reading)

2025 M.A., Comparative Literature / University of California, Los Angeles / Los Angeles, CA

2023 M.A., Race and Migration Studies / John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies / Freie Universität Berlin / Berlin, DE

2018 B.A., African and African American Studies, Minor: Legal Studies / Brandeis University / Waltham, MA

2024 - 2025 Teaching Assistant / Department of Comparative Literature / University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Comp Lit 1H: Introduction to Health Humanities
Comp Lit 2DW: Survey of Literature from the African Diaspora
Comp Lit 2BW: Survey of Literature from the Middle Ages

2019 - 2023 Community Education Faculty / Hebrew College Rabbinical School / Newton, MA
Course: “The Case for Reparations: Talmudic Text in Conversation with Today’s America”

2019 - 2020 English Language Teacher and Fulbright Grantee / German-American Fulbright Commission
Grades 9-12 / Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium / Chemnitz, DE

2016, 2017 Summer Teaching Assistant / The College of William and Mary / Williamsburg, VA
Pre-Collegiate Program in Early American History / National Institute of American History and Democracy (NIAHD)
HIST 218: American Revolution through the Civil War
HIST 217: Jamestown through the Revolution

2025 | Jewish Liberation Fund Seed Grant ($10,000)

2025 | Graduate Research Mentorship Award, UCLA ($30,000)

2025 | Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship, US State Department ($8,000)

2024 | Graduate Research Summer Mentorship Award, UCLA ($6,000)

2023 | The 1939 Society for Holocaust Studies Graduate Fellowship, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

2022 | Yeshivat Hadar Beit Midrash Fellow, The Hadar Institute

2020 | Summer Digital Archival Fellowship, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization

2020 | European Fulbright Diversity Initiative Award, The German-American Fulbright Commission

2019 | Fulbright Grantee, The German-American Fulbright Commission

2019 | Yeshivat Hadar Summer Fellowship, The Hadar Institute

2018 | Max Kade Grant for Research in Germany, Max Kade Foundation

2017 | Student-Scholar Partnership Grant, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University

2016 | Brandeis Bridges Fellowship, Brandeis University

2025 “Empire’s Abyss: Hybridity and Recovery in Black and Jewish Diasporic Thought”
Panel Discussion with Channelle Russell, Marissa J. Kessenich, and Rebecca Gross
American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico (forthcoming)

2025 “Beyond Wiedergutmachung: Reparations in a Global and Postcolonial Context”
International Workshop on the Legacies of the 1952 Holocaust Reparations Agreement

2025 “Safety Through Solidarity in The University and in Our Communities”
Organized Symposium featuring Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, Dr. David Myers, Ben Lorber, Denée Jackson, and Nadav David
The Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 

2024 “German Wiedergutmachung in the Black Imaginary”
Opening Plenary Speaker, Emerging Scholar Award
Lessons & Legacies: Languages of the Holocaust Conference, Los Angeles, CA 

2021 “The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians”
Panel with Dr. Sa’ed Atshan, Dr. Katharina Galor, and Zuka’a Joudeh
The German-American Fulbright Commission, Berlin, DE

2020 “Baldwin, Jews, and Race: Beyond Civil Rights”
Panel with Dr. Ben Ratskoff and Naomi Taub
The 2020 Conference on James Baldwin, St. Paul de Vence, France (Postponed due to COVID-19)

2019 “Exhibiting German Colonial Racism and Nazi Antisemitism”
Simon-Dubnow-Institut, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, DE

2019 “Multiethnic Encounters in James Baldwin’s Literature”
Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States (MELUS) Conference, Cincinnati, OH

2019 “James Baldwin, Brandeis University, and Jewish American Whiteness”
The Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2024 - 2026 Network Weaver | The Liberatory Jewish Studies Network

2018 - 2026 Member-Practitioner | Tzedek Lab: The Hearth of the Jewish Left

2020 - 2021 Anti-Racism Initiative Organizer | Yeshivat Hadar Alumni Network

2017 - 2022 Curriculum Writer and Team Lead | “Our Liberation is Bound Together”, Kavod, Boston, MA

2018 - 2019 Racial and Immigrant Justice Organizer | JOIN for Justice, Boston, MA

2016 - 2018 Campus Organizer | Brandeis Bridges: A Black & Jewish Student Coalition, Brandeis University

WORKING GROUPS: UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies; UCLA Leve Center Working Group in Jewish Studies 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Studies Association (ASA); Association of Jewish Studies (AJS); Modern Language Association (MLA); The Liberatory Jewish Studies Network (LJS); Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network (GHSCN); Tzedek Lab; The Diversity, Decolonization, & the German Curriculum Collective (DDGC); and the Texas Jewish Historical Society.