HBI is proud to announce our 2019 Research Award recipients. HBI awards grants to support research or artistic projects in Jewish women’s and gender studies across a range of disciplines. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, and established researchers. This year, HBI gave out 16 awards totaling $53,150.
Make Them Laugh: Molly Picon and the Story of the American Jewish Stage
Yiddish Traces in American-Jewish Feminism? English and Yiddish Life-Writing 1970-present
Displaying Art and Exhibiting Philanthropy: Jews, Gender, and Museums in the United States, 1888 – 1958
LA Archivera – An Exploration and Celebration of the Archive of Emily Sene
Women in the Neighborhood Women as Neighbors: Neighborliness and the Everyday of Urban Jewish Women in British Mandate Palestine
Becoming Jewish: Gendered Ethno-Racial Subjectivities and Jews by Choice
Cloaked Survival: Jewish Women “Passing” As Aryan During the Holocaust
Impact of Gender on Career Trajectories in Israel Studies
A Family in Iran: Networks of Love, Learning, and Work in the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Iran, 1908-1978
Uncut: Ritual Engagement, Adaptation, and Rejection of Brit Milah in Canada and United States
Jezebel: A Novel
Dressing Eve and Other Reparative Acts (University of Penn State Press, 2021)
Nodes, Edges and Ties: Online and Offline Social Networks of Smartphone Users among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women
Galante’s Daughter: A Sephardic Family Journey
Being and Doing: Legal Versus Narrative Standing of Women in Eretz Israel and Babylonian Texts
Rahel Szalit-Marcus, a Jewish Artist in Berlin and Paris
