Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor

Segal Family Associate Professor in Jewish History and Culture

Areas of Interest:

Modern Jewish history; 20^th century North Africa and Middle East; popular culture and music

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2017.

C. Phil., University of California, Los Angeles, 2015.

M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2014.

B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2005.

Publications:

Books

(Stanford University Press, 2022).

Articles

鈥淣ationalist Records: Jews, Muslims, and Music in Interwar North Africa,鈥� in聽Dynamic Jewish-Muslim Interactions in Performance Art, 1920-2020, ed., Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince (Liverpool University Press, 2020), 59-78.

鈥淭he Sounds of Nationalism: Music, Moroccanism, and the Making of Samy Elmaghribi."聽International Journal of Middle East Studies 52, no. 1 (2020): 23鈥�47.

鈥淟istening to the Past: Music as a Source for the Study of North African Jews,鈥� solicited contribution to 鈥淛ews of Morocco and the Maghreb: History and Historiography,鈥� ed., Aomar Boum, Jessica Marglin, Khalid Ben-Srhir, and Mohammed Kenbib, special issue of 贬别蝉辫茅谤颈蝉-罢补尘耻诲补. vol. L1.

Reviews

The Holocaust and North Africa, edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2019, Arab Studies Journal, vol. 27, no. 2 (Fall 2019).

Popular Writing and General Audience

鈥�,鈥澛�AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies, The Unfinished Issue聽(Fall 2020), 36-38.

鈥�.鈥� In 100 Years of Sephardic Los Angeles, edited by Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Caroline Luce. Los Angeles: UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies, 2020.

鈥�,鈥� with Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2019.

鈥�,鈥� Miscellanies,聽History Today, April 2018.

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Grants and Awards:

Internal Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant, 平特五不中 (2020)

Paper Presentation Grant, 平特五不中 (2019)

Arts Student Employment Fund, 平特五不中 (2019)

Posen Society of Fellows (2016-2017)

ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2016, declined)

American Academy Jewish Research, Travel Grant (2016)

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Sady Kahn Fellow (2015)

Maurice Amado Summer Research Award (2015)

UCLA History Department, Graduate Student Research Travel Grant (2015)

American Institute for Maghrib Studies, Short-Term Grant (2014)

UCLA Graduate Student Research Mentorship Award (2014)

UCLA History Department, Graduate Student Research Travel Grant (2013)

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Roter Research Travel Grant (2013)

Maurice Amado Program Summer Research (2013)

Maurice Amado Program Summer Research (2012)