Overview
Prior to joining Cornell University's Department of Near Eastern Studies as a PhD student, Rachel was Junior Curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana at the University of Amsterdam. Her research at Cornell focusses on Jewish women in the print industry in early modern Amsterdam. Rachel's project aims to recover women's labour and reassemble their networks through the use of a variety of archival sources, such as community registers, legal documents, company and guild archives, and geographic data. Also critical to this endeavour are the products of these women's work—books and other ephemeral literature.
Committee members: Jonathan Aaron Boyarin (Chair), Kim Haines-Eitzen, Laurent Ferri
Research Focus
- women in print
- Jewish culture
- history of the book
- social and business networks
- identity construction