About
I am a historian of the late antique and early medieval Mediterranean, focusing on the period’s cultural, social, and religious history, with a particular emphasis on hagiography and the cults of saints, identity constructions, and the dynamics between the various Mediterranean polities. As a historian of a period of significant transformations, I mainly study how people reacted to these changes, how they visioned their communities, defined their identities, and drew imagined and physical boundaries between different people, nations, and polities.
I am a Fulbright scholar and a Rothschild fellow at Columbia University. In the past, I was involved in a GIF (German-Israeli Foundation) project in which I co-organized a series of workshops and conference panels as well as co-edited a volume that was published with Bloomsbury. Over the years I also participated in several ISF projects as a doctoral student and a post-doctoral research fellow. I was also one of the founders of “Young History”, an annual conference for grad students in Israel which gives them an opportunity to practice public speaking and network with their peers.
As a historian, scholar and feminist, I strongly believe that besides conducting cutting-edge scholarship, academics should also be involved in their community and, when possible, use their privileges to create social change. This outlook stands in the center of my public activities: I was involved in raising awareness for gender segregation in academia and the problems caused by the under-representation of women in and outside of academic circles (for example, the unjustified under-representation of women among the nominees and recipients of the Israel Prize). I am also the co-founder and the co-editor of an online newsletter, The Feminist (הפמיניסט.ית). The newsletter tackles different issues that affect all people from various feminist perspectives and links them together in an attempt to present a more coherent and global view of the discussed topic.
I love words and stories. I enjoy reading, analyzing, and learning from them, as well as writing some of my own.
