Welcome!
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. My research revolves around two clusters: education, work, and family life as well as social stratification and economic life in modern Europe. I am not great with boundaries, though: I often cross into the Middle East and Central Asia or go back to the eighteenth century. My work brings together comparative literature and comparative historical sociology to craft richer narratives of social change.
I have received my Ph.D. with Distinction from Yale University. Outside New Haven, my work benefitted from residential fellowships at the Open Society Archives in Budapest, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. My work takes me to libraries and archives throughout the continent, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Caucasus.
Through my teaching, I bring my interest in how people build their lives and make sense of the world to students of various backgrounds. To even wider audiences, I strive to write whenever my expertise can shed light on contemporary problems. I have been doing so in my native Hebrew, English, and an increasing number of European, Middle Eastern, and Eurasian languages.
