Fields
Jews in East Central Europe; Holocaust history; museums and material culture; memory studies; modern and contemporary Jewry; Polish studies; political sociology; sociology of religion
Teaching
Globalization; History and Memory in Jewish Tradition; Holocaust History and Memory; Sociology of Religion; Social Theory
University Affiliations
Joint Faculty Appointment: Dietrich School & CGS
Affiliated Faculty: Jewish Studies; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Sociology
- PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2021
- MA, Yeshiva University, 2013
- BA, Yeshiva University, 2013
Education & Training
From Centre to Periphery and Beyond: The History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites, coedited with Florian Zabransky, et al. (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2024)
“The ‘Jewish Turn’ in Contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, Civic Nationalism, and the Construction of a Symbolic Other,” Sociological Forum 39, no. 1 (2024): 115-117
“The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Central and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Poland as a Comparative Case Study,” in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 33, Becoming Post-Communist: Jews and the New Political Cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe, ed. Eli Lederhendler (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 24-46
“Dead Jews Are Not A Metaphor,” Sociological Forum 37, no. 4 (2022): 1203-1206
“Towards a Sociological Analysis of the Synagogue Museum in Contemporary Poland,” in Museums and Identities: Planning an Extended Museum, ed. Dorota Folga-Januszewska (Warsaw: Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów, 2020), 175-188
“Disenchantment of the World: Weber, Judaism, and Maimonides,” Journal of Classical Sociology 17, no. 3 (2017): 173-190