Academic Background

2023-2024: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Minerva Stiftung, Department of Byzantine
Studies (host: Prof. Johannes Pahlitzsch), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
2022-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, the Open University of Israel
2015-2021: PhD Candidate at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dissertation title: The Formation of the Way of the Cross in Mamluk Jerusalem:
Perceived, Prescribed and Experienced Religious Space
Supervisors: Prof. Iris Shagrir, Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum z"l, Prof. Reuven Amitai
Dissertation approval date: 4/2022
2011-2014: MA, European Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (summa cum laude)
Thesis title: From the New Root to the New Route: Reconstructing the Passion in
Jerusalem during the 12th and 13th Centuries
Supervisor: Prof. Bianca Kühnel
2008-2010: BA (2nd and 3rd year), Art History and General Studies, the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem (magna cum laude)
2007-2008: BA (1st year), Music and Art History, the University of Haifa

Employment History

2022: Teaching Fellow at the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2016-2021: Teaching Assistant of Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum z"l at the Department of Geography, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017-2018: Research Assistant at "'Jesus Was a Jew': Teaching Christianity in Israeli State Education"
research project, the Open University of Israel
2014-2015: Research Assistant of Prof. Iris Shagrir, the Open University of Israel
2014-2015: Teaching Assistant of Dr. Miriam Goldstein at the Department of Arabic Language and
Literature, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012-2014: Research Fellow at "Spectrum: Visual Translations of Jerusalem", ERC Project, the
European Forum, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2010: Teaching Assistant of Dr. Katia Cytryn-Silverman at the Institute of Archaeology, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Grants and Awards

2021: The Jacob Talmon Excellence Award from the Department of History, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
2018-2021: The Rotenstreich Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D. Students in the Humanities
2015-2018: Scholarship from the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and
Jewish Studies, the Mandel School for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
2010: The Robert H. Smith Excellence Award from the Department of Art History, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem

 

Selected Conference Presentations

2023: "Between Relic and Place: Mobilizing Holy Relics in Medieval Jerusalem," in
Jerusalem the Navel of the Earth, Israel
2022: “Disruptions and Interruptions Along the Streets of Mamluk Jerusalem,” in The Annual
Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Crete
2021: “Desolate Pilgrimage Spaces Following the Fall of Frankish Jerusalem,” in The Society
for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (online conference)
2021: “The Formation of the Way of the Cross in Late Medieval Jerusalem,” in Road Map:
On Routes and their Meanings, Israel
2020: “We Were Here First: Guiding Pupils in Christian Sites,” in “Jesus Was a Jew”:
Teaching Christianity in Israeli State Education, Israel
2017: “Christian Space, Muslim Territory: The Formation of the Way of the Cross between
Crusader and Mamluk Jerusalem,” in The International Medieval Congress, United
Kingdom

 

Organization of Workshops

2024 (future workshop) (with Dr. Merav Mack) Texts in the City: Cultural, Religious and Intellectual Life in
Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages, the Department of Byzantine Studies, Johannes
Gutenberg University, Mainz
2021 (with Ofer Pogorelsky) Road Map: On Routes and their Meanings, the Mandel School
for Advanced Studies, Israel