CV/Werdegang

Academic positions/Akademische Affiliationen

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL / 2022-

DAAD Assistant Professor, Center for European Studies

Affiliate Faculty, Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies

 

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies

 

 

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA / 2019-2022

Visiting Research Scholar, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

 

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA / 2019

Transatlantic Partnership on Memory & Democracy Fellow, Center for German Studies

Education/Ausbildung

Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Social Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Ph.D. in Sociology (“summa cum laude”), January 2022

Advisors: Naika Foroutan (Humboldt U of Berlin) and Y. Michal Bodemann (U of Toronto)

 

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA

M.A. in Hebrew Letters and Title Rabbi, May 2022

 

University of Potsdam, School of Jewish Theology, Potsdam, Germany

M.A. in Jewish Theology, July 2018

B.A. in Jewish Theology, July 2015

 

Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Philosophy, Budapest, Hungary

B.A. in Liberal Arts, July 2013

Rabbinic work/Rabbinische Tätigkeit

Congregation Am Haskalah, Lehigh Valley, PA

Primary Rabbi / 2022

Primary (Student) Rabbi / 2020-2022

 

Congregation Beth Am, San Antonio, TX

Visiting Rabbi / 2022

 

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA

Rabbinic Intern at the Center for Jewish Ethics / 2019-2022

Tutor for Hebrew and Liturgy  / 2020-2021

 

Egalitarian Synagogue, Malmö, Sweden

Visiting Cantor / 2017-2019

 

Or Chadash Jewish Community, Vienna, Austria

Rabbinic Intern / 2015-2016

 

Sim Shalom Jewish Congregation, Budapest, Hungary

Rabbinic Intern / 2014-2015

Fellowships

J Street, Washington, D.C.

Seminary Student Fellow / 2021-2022

 

The iCenter for Israel Education, Northbrook, IL

Master’s Concentration in Israel Education Fellow / 2020-2021

 

Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin

Academy Program on Migration and Diversity Intern / 2017

Grants, Scholarships, Awards/Auszeichnungen, Stipendien

Center for European Studies Travel Grant, University of Florida / 2022, 2023
Auerbach Ignition Grant, Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation–Reconstructing Judaism / 2022
Shorrock Award, French Colonial Historical Society / 2022
Cushwa Center Research Grant, University of Notre Dame / 2021
Fred Louis Stamm Memorial Prize, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College / 2021
Marcus Foundation Scholarship / 2021
Graduate Tuition Award, Jim Joseph Foundation / 2021
Austrian Studies Association Stipend / 2021
Finalist, J. Y. Sanders Research Scholar Award, Southeastern Louisiana University / 2021
Congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh Scholarship / 2020, 2021
Society of Jewish Ethics Scholarship Award / 2020, 2022
Baron Award, Western Jewish Studies Association / 2019
Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk Scholarship / 2014-2017
University Scholarship Potsdam, Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) Program / 2013-2014

Memberships/Mitgliedschaften

German Studies Association / 2022-

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association / 2021-

Society of Jewish Ethics / 2020-2022

Advisory Board, Oyoun Kultur NeuDenken Berlin / 2021-

Publications/Veröffentlichungen

Selected Talks/Ausgewählte Vorträge