Education:
2023
PhD, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University: Jewish Religious Cultures
2014
MA, Jewish Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington: Borns Jewish Studies Program
2012
BA, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Primary Research Areas:
Languages:
2023
PhD, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University: Jewish Religious Cultures
- Dissertation: "'No Heart for Faith’: Depicting Freethinkers and Debating Freethought in the American Yiddish Press (1880s-1920s)." Advisor: Dr. Eric Goldstein.
- Granted with Distinction.
- Certificate: Jewish Studies
2014
MA, Jewish Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington: Borns Jewish Studies Program
- Thesis: Jewish Studies, June 2014: "Meir Kahane and the Holocaust: The Jewish Defense League as Collective Memory Project." Advisor: Dr. Shaul Magid.
- Granted with Highest Honors.
2012
BA, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Minors: Judaic Studies, Philosophy.
- Granted with High Distinction.
Primary Research Areas:
- American Jewish History:
- Period of Mass Immigration from Eastern Europe (ca. 1880-1924)
- Post-Immigrant & Immediate WWII Era (ca. 1924-1950)
- Religion and Freethought in American History
- Religion and Popular Culture in the United States
- Jewish Print Culture & Yiddish Print Culture in the Americas
- Contemporary American Antisemitism
- American Evangelicalism & Evangelical Print Culture
- Holocaust Memoirs & Holocaust Films
- Digital Humanities
Languages:
- Modern: Yiddish, German, Modern Hebrew
- Ancient: Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Biblical Greek
The following two clips are from an interview with the National Yiddish Book Center in 2015. In both clips I discuss my background (religious and educational) and my professional interests: