Overview
Committee members: Jonathan Aaron Boyarin (Chair), Ross Brann (Co-Chair), Seema Golestaneh
Selected Awards:
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Persian, 2020-2021
- Dean's Excellence Fellowship, Cornell
- Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace, Middlebury College, Summer 2018
- Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies, University of Washington, 2015-2016
Research Focus
- Jewish-Muslim interaction
- Middle Eastern Jewish culture
- Hebrew literature
- Persian literature
- Poetry and the lyric
- Ethnography
- Popular culture and media