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. 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.
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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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"
2023-2024
- Matt Shapiro '24, "The Role of Past Memory in the Formation of National Identity: Israel as Compared to the Baltic States"
2022-2023
- Alexis Albert '24, "Astrology, Mysticism and Spirituality in Contemporary American Culture: The Erasure of Judaism in Commodification"
- Feigele Lechtchiner '23, "Not In My Shul Yard: NIMBYism in Modern Orthodox Jewish Communities and Implications for Community Growth"
- Aviva Weinstein '23, "The Life and Death of Differing Jewish Communities"
2021-2022
- Renée Nakkab ’22, "Covering Up the Most Glamorous Jew on Screen: American Censorship Law and Ecstasy"
2020-2021
- Hannah O’Koon '22, "Memory and Survival in Holocaust-Era Cookbooks”
- Leah Trachtenberg '21, "Bunnies and Nachasim: Jews in Playboy Magazine"
- Elias Trout '21, "Justice and Justification: The Rhetoric of Holocaust Restitution Cases and the Framing of American Moral Authority on the Global Stage"
- Andie Watson '21, "Jewish Lesbian Activism and Pastoral Care during the AIDS Crisis"
2019-2020
- Hannah Kressel '20, "Beyond Brisket and the Balaboosta: Female Artists Unravel the Prescribed Roles of Women in Judaism"