Graduate Grant Recipients

2023-2024 Graduate Recipients of TIJS Grants

Robert Billups, a Ph.D. candidate in history, received a grant to support travel to South Africa to further his dissertation research related to US anti–civil rights attacks in global mid-century patterns of antisemitism.  

Julien Dahan, a Ph.D. candidate in French & Italian, received a fall grant in support of his trip to Princeton University to conduct thesis research on philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Elinore Darzi, a Ph.D. candidate in French, received a fall grant to support her participation in a conference on the work of Emmanuel Levinas in Paris.

Ashley Tan, a Ph.D. candidate in History, received a grant to support his trip to Singapore to conduct thesis research on the history of the Jewish community in East Asia.

Alexa Windsor, an SJD student in Emory’s School of Law, was awarded grant to support her participation in two legal conferences: the Seventh Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion in Palermo, Italy, and the Law and Society annual meeting in Denver, Colorado.

2022-2023 Graduate Recipients of TIJS Grants

Robert Billups, a Ph.D. candidate in history, was awarded a grant to support his research trip to the British National Archives to explore anti-civil rights terrorism in the United States between 1955 and 1977.

Hugo Hansen, a Ph.D. candidate in history, was awarded a grant to support his research trip to India to explore the exodus of Jews and Muslims from Bombay between 1930 and 1955.

Chantel Heister and Asia Lerner-Gay, both Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, were awarded grants to support their participation in a summer archaeological excavation at Tel Azekah in central Israel.

Hyun Woo Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, was awarded a grant to support his presentation “Eco-ethical Reading of ‘rehoboth’ (Gen 26:22)” at the 2022 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Denver.

Chelsea Mak, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, was awarded a summer grant to support her participation in an archaeological excavation at Tel Moza on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Ashley Tan, a Ph.D. candidate in history, was awarded a grant to support his international travel to study the Bornean kongsis which were self-governing Chinese entities and the Jewish presence in the Dutch East Indies.

Sasha Tycko, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, was awarded a grant to support her attendance at FestivALT, an interdisciplinary festival of visual art, music, and performance exploring the complexities of Jewish culture and historical memory in Poland.

2021-2022 Graduate Recipients of TIJS Grants

Bernardo Andrade, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, received a grant for a research trip to Amsterdam to support his thesis research on Emmanuel Levinas at Tilburg University.

Caitlin Hubler, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, received a grant to support her participation in the Excavation at Azekah summer program in central Israel.

Hyun Woo Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, received a grant supporting the presentation of his paper, “Breaking the Asian American Silence at a Time Like This: Lessons from the Diasporic Jews in Exile” at the Society of Biblical Literature Conference in San Antonio, Texas. He also received a summer grant to participate and conduct research at Hebrew University’s Excavations at Tel Qedesh.

Ariel Liberman, a doctoral candidate at Emory Law School’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion, received a summer grant to attend the Fifth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion in Bologna, Italy.

2020-2021 Graduate Recipients of TIJS Grants

Chava Green, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, received a grant to support registration for a virtual Association for Jewish Studies conference, as well as additional dissertation research-related travel expenses in the northeast.

2019-2020 Graduate Recipients of TIJS Grants

Anastasiia Strakhova, a history Ph.D. student, received a grant to present her paper titled “Subtle Power: Female Agents of Jewish Emigration from Late Imperial Russia” at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, in San Diego, CA.  

Chava Green, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, received a Schatten Scholarship Fund grant to attend the international conference of female Chabad emissaries in Brooklyn, NY.

2018-2019 Graduate Recipients of TIJS Grants

Brady Beard, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, received a grant towards presenting "What The Locust Left: The Iconography of Locust in Joel 1:4" at the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament's 23^rd Congress. 

Carolina Iribarren, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, used her grant towards archival research on Chantel Akerman’s textual work in Brussels, Belgium at the Fondation Chantal Akerman and the library of the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique.