Director of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History, Course Advisor

Areas of Interest:

Modern Jewish and European history, Eastern Europe, popular and material culture, youth movements, nationalism.

Education:

Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 2020
M. A., University of California, Berkeley, 2016
M. A., Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 2010
B. A., Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 2007

Selected Awards & Fellowships:

• 2019 – GEOP POLIN in Warsaw Poland, to organize an international workshop titled Between and Beyond the World Wars.
• 2019 – ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University, Start-Up Fund
• 2019 - Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
• 2018 - AJS Annual Conference, Koret Foundation Travel Grant

• 2018 - 2019 - John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies awarded by Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
• 2017 - 2018 - Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies: The Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship and the Samuel and Flora Research Fellowship awarded by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
• 2017 - Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
• 2017 - Research Fellowship for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Candidates, awarded by GEOP POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
• 2015 - 2016 - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS, Academic Year) to study Yiddish at University of California, Berkeley
• 2015 - YIVO Institute for Jewish Research award to study Yiddish at the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture of Bard College and YIVO Institute, New York
• 2014 - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for intensive study of Hebrew at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 2013 - 2014 Entering Graduate Student Merit Fellowship awarded by the Institute of European Studies (IES) at UC Berkeley

Publications:

Review of Kamil Kijek Dzieci modernizmu. Świadomość, kultura i socjalizacja polityczna młodzieży żydowskiej w II Rzeczypospolitej. (Children of Modernism. Political Consciousness, Culture and Socialization of Jewish Youth in the Second Polish Republic. In East European Jewish Affairs, Volume 48, Issue: 03, pages 437 – 440 (published online in English, May 23, 2019)

#PolishRighteous. Presentism, Populism and the Holocaust Memory (published online via ISEEES Berkeley, September 2018)

Selected Talks & Invited Presentations:

• Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference (San Diego, December 2019)

• Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Conference (Boston, December 2018)
• Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Annual Conference (Boston, December 2018)
• Bar Ilan University & The Historical Society of Israel, The Sixth Bi-Annual Israel-Poland Workshop for Early Career Scholars of the History and Culture of Polish Jews (Zichron Yaakov, June 2018)
• Haifa University, International Conference: Living Together, Living Apart in Germany, Europe, and Israel. Parallel Societies in Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Identitarian Societies (Haifa, May 2018)
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, November 2017)
• Columbia University, Working Group on International History (New York, November 2017)
• German Historical Institute (Warsaw, June 2017)
• POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw, January 2017)
• LMU Munich and UC Berkeley, PhD Workshop: Jews, Germans, and other Europeans: Modern Encounters (Berkeley, December 2016)
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Dissertation & Thesis Development Workshop: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (Washington DC, June 2015)
• UC Berkeley, Center for Jewish Studies (Berkeley, May 2014)