Education:

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Stanford University, M.A., History; M.A., Musicology

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M. A., Religious History

      Passed the university Hebrew language proficiency exam

 Swarthmore College, B.A., Religion and History

      Additional B.A. coursework in religion and history at the University of        

      Pennsylvania

Summer Semester 2019: "The American Jewish Experience in the Twentieth Century"

Summer Semester 2018: "The Politics of Music: The Twentieth-Century Classical Music World in the United States"

Research Interests: 

• Immigration and Migration
•  Diplomacy
•  Religion
•  Cultural History

Dissertation Project:

"Migrant Capital and Social Networks: The Western Classical Music World
between the U.S. and Mandate Palestine/Israel, 1920s-1960s"

Media

Deutschlandradio Kultur, Eine Faust gegen den Antisemitismus Bronislaw Huberman, Geigenvirtuose und Gründer des Palestine Symphony Orchestra, Kira Alvarez, 18.06.2017