Research Award Recipients (2006-07)

  • Karen Auerbach, "Reconstructed Communities: A Social History of Jewish Life and Assimilation in Walbrzych, Poland After World War II"
  • Julia Phillips Cohen, "Celebrations of Empire: The Shaping of Late Ottoman Jewish Identity, 1856-1912"
  • Rachel L. Fish, "Bi-Nationalist Idea Within Zionist Thought and Israel Studies"
  • Ronnie Fraser, "Relationships of the Trade Unions, The UC, the Left and Israel"
  • Jeffrey Koerber, "View from the Borderlands: Jews in Belorussia and Poland, 1935-1945"
  • Amaryah S. Orenstein, "Antisemitism in the United States: A Comparative Study of Three Episodes"
  • Dylan Trigg, "The Architecture of Trauma: Memory, Place and Testimony"
  • Parmenion Papmichos-Chronakis, "Zionism, Hellenization and the Jewish Middle Class in Interwar Thessaloniki, 1918-1936"

Research Grants


Graduate Research Awards
Information for 2007-08
Proposal deadline: Jan. 17, 2008

Grants are available for advanced research expenses in the following areas of study: modern European Jewry, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Zionism, and the State of Israel. The research project may be in any academic discipline. Grants up to $1,500 will be made as contribution toward travel expenses associated with research (such as visits to archives), purchase of research materials such as microfilm (but excluding books), costs of data collection and processing.

Eligibility
All students enrolled in a doctoral program are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to students who have successfully completed their course work by the end of the 2007-08 academic year.

Proposals should include:

  • title and the objectives of the research project; and an explanation of how this
    research constitutes an integral part of your doctoral research
  • description of research plans, including data to be used, methodology, description of sources, etc
  • breakdown of specific expenditures to be covered by the grant
  • letter of recommendation from faculty advisor
  • curriculum vitae
  • brief written report on the progress of the project to be furnished within one year of the granted award
Decisions concerning applications will be made on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee of the Tauber Institute.

Submit proposal to:

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
Lown 306A, MA 075

Deadline is Jan. 17, 2008
Awards will be announced by March 31, 2008

For more information
781-736-2125
781-736-2070 (fax)
tauber@brandeis.edu
www.brandeis.edu/tauber/grants.html