Polonsky Alumni

Name Start Fellowship Year End Fellowship Year Research Subject
Kim Bradford 2021 2024 Aristotle on Friendship and Justice
Dotan Halevy 2021 2024 Settling Sands: Commodification, Displacement and the Modern Coastline 1900-1970
Alma Igra 2020 2024 Farm to Pharmacy: Nutrition, Animals, and Governance in Britain 1870-1945
Aviram Tzoreff 2020 2024 Giyur and Gerim in Zionist Discourse: Negation, Nationalization and a Counter-Discourse
Rory O'Connell 2020 2024 Realizing the Good: Instrumental Rationality and Ethics
Shlomit Wygoda 2020 2024 Causation, Determination and Free Will
Dan Deutsch 2022 2023 Imperial Identities Musicalized: Jewish Composers in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Wan Zi Lu 2021 2023 Politics of Valuation in Health and the Body
Nimrod Ben Zeev 2020 2023 Living with Ghosts: Labor, the Built Environment, and Political Economy in Twentieth-Century Nation Building and Displacement
Jacob Abolafia 2020 2023 An Institutional Political Theory of Secularization
Roni HIrsch 2018 2023 The Price of Risk and Its Social Costs
Henry Shapiro 2018 2023 The Great Armenian Flight: The Celali Revolts and the Rise of Western Armenian Society
Carmen Dege 2019 2023 The Metaphysics of Post-Metaphysical Politics – Truth, Meaning, and Myth in Liberalism
Umit Kurt 2017 2022 Genocide from the Bottom-up: Robbing the Armenians and Making of the Elite in the Ottoman Periphery Aintab (1890s-1930s)
Ray Schrire 2020 2022 How to Do Things with Numbers in Early Modern England
Orit Malka 2019 2022 Testimony and Oath in Antiquity
Ofri Ilany 2017 2022 Judaism and Männerbund: Masculine Brotherhood in Jewish Modernity
Magdalena Luszcsynska 2018 2022 Transmutation, Rhetoric, and Diplomacy. Alchemists and their writings at the Court of Rudolf II
Firat Kurt 2019 2022 he Social Life of Populism: Financial Capitalism, Mass Mobilization, and Islamism in Turkey
Ella Klik 2019 2022 Visions of Quasi-Presence: On Digital Reconstructions of Lost Objects
Eklaterina Pukhovaia 2021 2022 The Gravitational Pull of Empires: State-Building in The Ottoman and Safavid Borderlands (16th – Early 18th Centuries)
Daniel Telech 2018 2021 Praiseworthiness as Deserved Agential Pride
Assaf Tamari 2017 2022 ’Heal Us O Lord and We Shall Be Healed’ – Me and You Together”: Medical Discourse and Early Modern Jewish Thought
Alberto Bardi 2019 2021 Philosophy and History of Cross-Cultural Encounters between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Byzantine Astronomy
Casper Hansen 2016 2021 A Conventionalist Philosophy of Mathematics
Guy Paltieli 2016 2022 Privacy, Presence and Participation: Changing Political Concepts in a Visible Democracy
Rawia Aburabia 2019 2020 Trapped Across the Borders: Palestinian Women from the Occupied Territories in Polygamous Marriage in Israel
Elvira Di Bona 2016 2020 The Content of Auditory Perception
Karma Ben Johanan 2017 2019 The New Evangelization: The Catholic Mission to Save Europe
Tanja Werthman 2018 2020 Metaphysics of Gender in Early Kabbalah and its Philosophical Background
Torbjorn Ottersen 2015 2020 Staging the present: Regieoper and documentary opera
Uri Weiss 2015 2020 Negotiation and Distributive Justice
Emily Holman 2018 2019 Language-scape: Literature and the Mind’s ‘Lifeworld‘
Lucia Carminatti 2018 2019 Bread and Fortune: Migration and State-Making in Modern Egypt, 1850-1914 2018-2020
Ahmad Amara 2017 2019 Ottoman-British Legacies and the Legal Geography of Palestine/Israel
Almog Behar 2014 2019 Between the Hebrew and Arabic in the Literature of the Jews of the Arab World in the Twentieth Century
Claire Benn 2014 2019 Artificial Goodness: Doing and Being Good in the Digital Age
Georgina Statham 2016 2019 Applying Casual Models to Policy Debates
Leora Dahan Katz 2016 2019 Retribution: Justifying State, Institutional and Private Punishment
Olla Solomyak 2014 2019 Lessons from the Metaphysics of Perspectives: Temporal Experience and the Sense of Self
Pavel Vassiliev 2017 2019 Red Days on the Calendar: A cultural History of Soviet Menstruation
Ana Bajzelj 2014 2018 Being in time: An analysis of the Jain doctrine of time and temporality
Sivan Balslev 2015 2018 Looking at the History of Masculinity, Childhood and Sexuality in Modern Iran
Sharon Berry 2014 2018 Mathematical Knowledge and Combinatorial Possibility
Ellena Cagnoli Fiecconi 2017 2018 Aristotele’s Embodied Ethics
Michal Gleitman 2013 2018 How Conventional Is Linguistic Understanding: Autistics and Nonhuman Animals as Test Cases
Erdal Kaynar 2014 2017 Economic Thought in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Question of the Nation
Tomasso Tesei 2013 2018 The Eschatology of the Qur’an in light of the Cultural and Historical Context of Late Antiquity
Domeniko Agostini 2013 2017 The Other World in Transformation. From Zoroastrian Eschatology to Dante’s Divine Comedy
Nea Erlich 2015 2017 Animated Realities: How Animation Emerged as the Visual Language of the 21st Century and why we’ve come to Believe It
Silvia Jonas 2012 2017 Mathematical Self-Evidence and the Rationality of Religious Belief
Wael Abu Aksa 2013 2016 Contemporary Arab Liberal Discourse: Theory and Practice
Dong Xiuyuan 2015 2016 The Presence of Buddhist Thought in Early Arabic Theological Literature
Filip Ivanovich 2015 2016 Virtue and Happiness: Moral Philosophy in Late Antique Christian Thought
Roy Vilozny 2014 2016 A Shi’ite Mythology
Stefab Ihrig 2012 2016 Understanding the “Jews of the Orient” and Genocide: Germany and the Armenians
Chrisy Kotsifou 2011 2016 People, Objects, and Ideas in Motion. Communication and Social Interaction in the Late Antique Mediterranean
Ronen Mandelkern 2011 2016 The Political Influence of Economists Following the Global Financial Crisis
Shalom Sadik 2013 2015 The Thought of Spanish Apostates and their Influence on Judaism and Christianity
Tally Kritznam Amir 2010 2015 The Global Childhood
Sinai Rusinek 2010 2014 The history of the Early Modern Concept of Envy
Edward Iricinsci 2009 2014 What Did Ancient Heresiologists Read? Heresy and the Order of Books in Late Antiquity
Arnon Levy 2009 2014 Developmental Biology (especially comparing two conceptions of development – the mechanistic view prevalent in embryology and cell biology, and the computational view prevalent in genetics and evo-devo)
Sharon Weisser 2012 2014 Eradication or Moderation of the Emotions? The Stoic and Platonic-Aristotelian Debate and its Afterlife in the Second to the Fourth Centuries CE
Salman Bashier 2008 2013 Past and Present: Ibn al-Arabi’s Mysticism, Islamic Fundamentalism and the Sense of History
Mical Raz 2009 2013 Differing Perceptions of Deprivation (Maternal, Sensory and Cultural) in American Psychiatry and their Translation into Public Policy and Intervention
Rebecca Gould 2011 2012 The Consequences of Contingency: Trajectories of Global Rhetorical Knowledge
Amos Morris Reich 2007 2008 Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence (with special emphasis on the Germanand Jewish contexts)

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