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NEW HAZEL D. COLE FELLOW ARRIVES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Alisa Braun
This year, the Jewish Studies Program
welcomes Alisa Braun as the Hazel D.
Cole Fellow for 2003–2004. She earned
her MA (1997) and is earning her Ph.D.
from the University of Michigan in
American and British Fiction (1870–
1920) with a specialized inquiry in
Jewish Cultural Studies.
Her graduate thesis, “Jews,
Writing, and the Dynamics
of Literary Affiliation
1890–1940,” challenges
notions of literary author-
ity by exploring how writers, traditionally seen
as involved in relations of patronage or
mentorship, worked in tandem to construct their
identities as authors and to legitimize their own
aesthetic and ideological projects. Ms. Braun
At the graduate level, the University of Washington has
become one of a handful of North American centers training
a new generation of scholars who specialize on Israel.
Several graduates have taken posts at other universities.
Niall Omurchu, Ph.D. (2000) wrote his dissertation on religious
and ethnic struggles in Northern Ireland and Palestine under
British rule. He now teaches at Western Washington University.
Specializing on Israel’s High Court of Justice, Patricia Woods,
Ph.D. (2001) took a post in the University of Florida’s (Gainseville)
departments of Jewish Studies and Political Science.
Two doctoral students are now in the final stages of their
graduate training. Maha el-Taji is completing research in the
Haifa area on politics in Arab villages and the relationship to
the High Court of Justice. Roni Amit is writing on the adoption
of international human rights law by Israeli (and several
other countries’) supreme courts.
A Turkish graduate student, Yuksel Sezgin, is about to start
his field research for his dissertation on the role of religious
courts in Israel, Egypt, and India. A graduate student at the
University of Oslo, writing on the Shas Party, has applied to
be a visiting graduate student here next year, to learn more
about Israel. Several other students, early in their graduate
careers, plan to concentrate on Israel studies, as well.
As these students’ topics make clear, the opportunity to
study Israel in comparative perspective is a prime draw of the
University of Washington.
The Hazel D. Cole Fellowship
was established in 1992 by
Althea Stroum and her late
husband, Samuel, to provide
financial assistance to
deserving doctoral or
postdoctoral fellows in Jewish
Studies, and to honor the
memory of Mrs. Stroum’s
sister, Hazel D. Cole.
focuses on the careers of Jewish writers as they emerged on
the American scene, questioning traditional models of the relation
between ethnicity and hierarchy in the writing profession.
She received a Dissertation Research Fellowship from the
Center for Jewish History, the Rose and Isidore Drench Fellowship
from the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, and many
awards and prizes from such organizations as the Institute for
Courses on Israel
Research on Women and Gender, the Marshall
Weinberg Prize of Excellence in Judaic Studies,
the Mellon Dissertation Fellowship and the Lurie
Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ms. Braun
earned her undergraduate degree from Columbia
University and attended the Ureil Weinreich
Program in Yiddish Literature and Culture in 1998
and 2000 at Columbia.
Fall quarter 2003, she will teach SISJE 490
Yiddish Culture in America (English Translations),
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30–3:20.
THE HAZEL D. COLE FELLOWSHIP IN JEWISH STUDIES SEEKS APPLICANTS
The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington is
welcoming applications for the Hazel D. Cole Fellowship in
Jewish Studies for the academic year 2004–2005.
The Fellowship may be used for either doctoral or post-doctoral
research in any field of Jewish Studies.␣ Candidates must agree
to be in residence at the University of Washington for the tenure
of the fellowship.␣ The Hazel D. Cole Fellow will receive a stipend
of approximately $30,000, pending funding for the academic
year. The successful candidate will take part in the ongoing Jewish
Studies Colloquium Series, and will offer one undergraduate
seminar or lecture course during the academic year.
Applicants from all American and foreign universities are welcome.
ISRAEL STUDIES: A CENTRAL FOCUS OF JEWISH STUDIES
Applications to consist of:
(1) A current curriculum vitae
(2) A description (not exceeding five pages)
of the proposed research proposal
(3) Three letters of recommendation
ALL APPLICATIONS (including letters of recommendation) MUST
BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 14, 2003.
MAIL application materials to:
(Applications by fax or e-mail will not be accepted.)
Hazel D. Cole Fellowship Search Committee
JSIS, University of Washington
Box 353650, Seattle, WA 98195-3650
RECENT INTRODUCTIONS TO THE CURRICULUM
NEW: Israeli Identities
(Winter, NE 326/CHID 498, Sokoloff)
Explores fiction, film, poetry, songs and essays
about diverse groups within contemporary
Israeli society.
NEW: Foreign Policy Towards Israel
(Winter, SIS 495, Wellman)
Modern Jewish Literature and Cultural Identity
Yiddish Culture in America
(Fall, SISJE 490, Braun)
American Jewish Community
(Winter, SISJE 377, Burstein)
Topics in Ethnicity and Cultural Identity:
Eastern European Jewish Literature
(Winter, RUSS 424/SISJE 490A, Henry)
Jewish Women in Contemporary America
(Spring, SISJE 438, Friedman)
For complete course descriptions:
http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/jewish/courses.html
or call (206) 543-4243
Scenic photograph by Mary Levin, © University Photography