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RESEARCH

“Splintered Sovereignty and the De-Monopolization of Legitimate Violence in Colonial States.”

“Migration as Contentious Politics: Gegenwart Struggle and Colonizational Preparedness in the North American ‘Hechalutz’ Settlement Movement, 1905–1953.”

"Populating the Frontier: The Mechanisms of Settler Migration."

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • Bluma Appel Research Grant, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies

  • Graduate Student Research Grant, UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center

  • Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education/UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Summer Advanced Arabic (2023)

  • Alan D. Leve Endowment for Student Excellence Grant, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies (2023)

  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education/UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, A/Y Intermediate Yiddish (2023-2024, declined)

  • Summer Language Study Grant, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (2023)

  • Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division (2023-2024)

  • Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division (2023)

  • Fellow, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Holocaust Educational Foundation, Northwestern University (2023)

  • Travel Grant, Holocaust Educational Foundation, Northwestern University (2023)

  • Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (2022)

  • Chaskel & Sara Roter Research Grant, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies (2022)

  • Yiddish Summer Fellowship, The Naomi Foundation (2022)

  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education/UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Summer Advanced Arabic (declined) (2022)

  • Bluma Appel Research Grant, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies (2021-2022)

  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education/UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Academic Year Intermediate Arabic (2021–2022)

  • Fein & Lapidus Fellowship, American Jewish Historical Society (2021)

  • Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division (2021)

  • Doctoral Fellowship, UCLA Department of Sociology (2020-2026)

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO AREEJ SABBAGH-KHOURY, HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (REMUNERATED, 2020-PRESENT)

  • Research, writing, translating, editing, grant writing, and consulting

  • Investigator on Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar Grants (2022-2023, 2023-2024), “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Disintegration and Intracommunal Violence Among the Palestinians in Israel and East Jerusalem”

  • Select publications assisted with: Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (Stanford University Press, 2023); “Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession” (Sociological Theory, 2022); “Settler Colonialism and the Archives of Apprehension” (Current Sociology, 2022); “Memory for Forgetfulness: Conceptualizing a Memory Practice of Settler Colonial Disavowal” (Theory and Society, 2022); “‘But if I don’t steal it, someone else is gonna steal it’” (MERIP, 2022); “Ha-meḥa'ah ha-'amimit v'alimut: ha-medina ha-ḳoloni'alit ha-hityashvutit” [Popular Protest and Violence: The Settler Colonial State] (Theory and Criticism, 2021); “Tracing Settler Colonialism: Genealogy of a Paradigm of Knowledge Production in Israel” (Politics and Society, 2021)

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