About Me
I am a cultural and intellectual historian specializing in modern European, Middle Eastern, and Jewish history, imperial history, and the global history of knowledge. My research examines how ideas, scholarly practices, and institutions migrate across borders and take shape in imperial and colonial contexts, bridging Central European and British history with global and transnational perspectives. I am currently a Martin Buber Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
My first book, A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel (Brandeis University Press, 2024), explores the migration of German academic traditions into new political and cultural settings. The book, which evolved from my award-winning dissertation, was honored with the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. A Hebrew edition of the work was published by Magnes Press in 2024 and received the Ish-Shalom Award from Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
My current major research project investigates colonial encounters of knowledge in British Mandate Jerusalem. By examining museums, government departments, and learned societies, I analyze the spaces of exchange among European migrant scholars, British colonial officials, and local Arab intellectuals. This research forms the basis of my second monograph, linking Jerusalem to broader European imperial contexts through multilingual research across Hebrew, English, Arabic, and German.
