Graduate Research Awards
The Tauber Institute offers grants for master's thesis and doctoral dissertation research in any academic discipline related to Jewish Studies. Individual grants of up to $5000 will be awarded to cover travel expenses (such as visits to archives), purchase of materials (such as microfilm), and costs of data collection and processing.
Recipients for the 2023-2024 academic year will be announced February 16, 2024.
How to Apply
Prepare your application according to the guidelines listed below. Send your completed application, including the letter of recommendation, to tauber@brandeis.edu. The deadline to apply is December 15, 2023.
Eligibility
Students enrolled in a graduate program at Brandeis University are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to students who have successfully completed their course work by the end of the 2023-2024 academic year.
Proposals
Proposals should include:
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Title and the objectives of the research project and an explanation of how this research constitutes an integral part of the applicant's graduate research
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Description of research plans, including data to be used, methodology, and description of sources
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Breakdown of specific expenditures to be covered by the grant
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Letter of recommendation from a faculty advisor
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Names of other grants to which the applicant has applied
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Curriculum vitae
Selection Criteria
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Originality and creativity of the research proposal
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Importance of the proposed thesis or dissertation to the applicant’s field
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Appropriateness of primary-source collections and institutions in which the applicant proposes to conduct research
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Strong academic record
Decisions concerning applications will be made on the recommendation of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Tauber Institute.
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2022-2023
- Edith Pick, "Diversity Discourse and Politics of Difference in UK Jewish Organizations"
- Leighton Souza, "The People’s Power: Mizrahi Resistance and the Israeli Black Panther Party"
- Joseph Weisberg, "From Generation to Generation: Understanding Jewishness, Family, Commerce, and Slavery in Early and Antebellum North America"
- Henry Wudl, "Yosef ben Tanḥum HaYerushalmi and the Poetics of Post-Classical Arabic and Hebrew Literature"
2021-2022
- Tamar Aizenberg, Brandeis University, "The Third Generations: Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, Grandchildren of Perpetrators, and Holocaust Memory"
- Oya Aktas, University of Washington, "Beyond Perpetrator and Victim: The 1915 Genocide and the Liberalization of Belonging for Ottoman Jews and Armenians"
- Lauren Bradford, Clark University, "Cloaked in Femininity: Women’s Participation in Racial Terror in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America"
- Alexandra Kramen, Clark University, "Justice Pursued: Jewish Survivors’ Struggle for Holocaust Justice in Displaced Persons Camp Föhrenwald, 1945- 1957"
- Jacob Morrow-Spitzer, Yale University, "Probation and Assimilation: Jewish Crime Prevention and American Jewish Statecraft, 1900- 1933"
- Lelia Stadler, Columbia University,"The Road to Trans-South American Divorce: Jews, Family, and the Rise of the Immigrant Nation (1853-1955)"
2020-2021
- Natalie Cornett, “Matylda Rosen Natanson: The Jewish 'Enthusiast' of the Nineteenth Century"
- Rima Farah, “The Predicament of the National Identity of Arabic-speaking Christians in Israel: 1980-2014"
- Zen Kuriyama, “Englishness and Jewishness: Gerald Finzi and the English Musical Renaissance"
2019-2020
None awarded
2018-2019
- Maham Ayaz, “Development of Citizenship and Nationality in Israel, in Law and Society"
- Yair Bar Zuri, ”Micha Yosef Berdiczewsky, Yosef Chaim Brenner and Aharon David Gordon"
- Benjamin Steiner, “Ketubot of the Bevis Marks Synagogue"