COURSES TAUGHT:
- HUM 299: Exploring Careers in the Humanities
- JST 333U: Israeli Culture and Society
- JST 335U: Sex, Love, and Gender: Israeli and Palestinian Experiences
- JST/ WS 336U: Gender and Judaism
- HST 461/561: Topics in Jewish History: History of Jewish Dance
- JST 407: Public History Seminar: Museums and Memory in Israel and the United States
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social and cultural history of Israel
Public history and culture in Israel and the United States
Dance history
Arts and performance studies
Gender history
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine. (Wayne State University Press, June 2013). Finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature; Finalist for a 2013 National Jewish Book Award.
"Mapping a Mizrahi Presence in Israeli Concert Dance: Representations and Receptions of Yemenite Jewish Life on Stage from 1920 to the Present" in the Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance in Contemporary Perspective, edited by Naomi Jackson, Rebecca Pappas and Toni Shapiro-Phim. (Oxford University Press, 2021).
“Dance in Jewish Studies,” Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies, edited by Naomi Seidman. (Oxford University Press, 2018, online).
“The City as Subject and Stage: Dance and the Formation of Tel Aviv,” Israel Affairs. (Routledge 2017).
"Constructing the City of Tel Aviv: Urban Space, Physical Culture, and the Natural and Built Environment," Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. (Routledge, 2012).
"American Jewish Dance," The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, edited by Judith Baskin. (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
DEGREES
Ph.D., Stanford University
M.A., Stanford University
B.A., Brown University