Undergraduate Research Awards
The Tauber Institute is offering research grants to undergraduates completing honors/senior theses or engaged in a research project in any field related to Jewish Studies in the 2024-2025 academic year. Grants are awarded in amounts up to $2,000 to cover travel expenses (e.g., visits to archives), purchase of materials (e.g., microfilm), and costs of data collection and processing. Applications are due November 15, 2024.
Proposals
Proposals should include:
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Title and objectives of the project and an explanation of how this research constitutes a culmination of the applicant's undergraduate learning
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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 Brandeis grants for which the applicant has applied
- Curriculum Vitae
Submit proposals in a single pdf to: tauber@brandeis.edu
Selection Criteria
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Originality and creativity of the project
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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
Current Recipients (2024-2025)
Neima Fax 25', "Between Messianism and Manuscripts: Women’s Voices Emerging in Print in Early Modern Eastern Europe"
Allan Feldman 26',"Egyptian Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Pre-Nasser Period"
Zachary Gold 25', "The ‘Jew’ Within Nazi Society: A Story of Antisemitism and Survival"
Matvey Agranovskiy 26', "Alexander Kojève’s Dialectics of Hegel and Marx"
Ofri Levinson 25', "This is NOT Tel Aviv: Metamorphosis of the Kibbutz: Identity and Ideology Throughout Time"
Dahlia Matanky 25', "Sacred Sensuality: An Exploration of Young Orthodox Jewish Women’s Understandings and Experiences with Sexual Desire and Pleasure"
Lev Sewald 26' & Thomas Musser 26', "The Land of Milk and Vodka: An Investigation into Russian and Yiddish News Publications from Siberia’s Jewish Homeland"