U.S. Post-doctoral Fellows

2023-2024

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2021-2022

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2020-2021

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2018-2019

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2017-2018

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2015-2016

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Derek Burrell

Derek Burrell

University of Arizona >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Derek Burrell received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out his research project titled “Characterizing and Denoising Hyperspectral Imagery for Super Resolution Object Detection in Scattering Media” in the Photonics and Electro-Optics Unit at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University and his MS in optics and photonics from the University of Central Florida. As an undergraduate he participated in a European Project Semester at Oslo Metropolitan University on a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. He received his PhD in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. While working on his PhD, he collaborated with the US Air Force Research Laboratory to study and mitigate effects of coherent noise in tracking and wavefront-sensing systems. Derek also supports field experiments on long-range active imaging with performance comparisons in various spectral bands and gain configurations.

His recent publication is:

Burrell, Derek J., Mark F. Spencer, Melissa K. Beason, and Ronald G. Driggers. “Active-Tracking Scaling Laws Using the Noise-Equivalent Angle due to Speckle.” Journal of the Optical Society of America A 40, no. 5 (2023): 904–13.

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Jeffrey Cross

Jeffrey Cross

University of Minnesota Twin Cities >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jeffrey Cross was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project, “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic Stoicism: Contributing to a More Equitable Intellectual History,” under the mentorship of Professor Noam Mizrahi at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this project Jeffrey examines conceptual similarities between the Dead Sea Scrolls and texts representing the views of Hellenistic Stoicism. In addition to demonstrating philosophical engagement between Jews writing in Hebrew, and Greek and Roman intellectuals, this research challenges the study of these literatures in isolation and models a more equitable intellectual history of the ancient Mediterranean. Jeffrey studied classics for his BA at Baylor University. He then received his MA and PhD in classical and Near Eastern religions and cultures at the University of Minnesota. There he wrote his dissertation on scribal rewriting and textual development in the legal texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, under the direction of Professors Bernard Levinson (University of Minnesota) and Molly Zahn (Yale Divinity School).

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Erika Garcia

Erika Garcia

University of Colorado Denver >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Erika Garcia was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her project titled “An Integrative Approach to Evaluating the Diversity of the Elusive Camel Spider in Israel” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this project Erika will be conducting research on the solifuge diversity of the region, much of which has not been rigorously studied for several decades. Her project will be collections-based research out of the National Natural History Collections, and she will be utilizing next-generation sequencing, microscopy, and modeling techniques to understand the region’s solifuge biodiversity. The goal of this research is to provide an updated taxonomic key of the Israeli solifuge diversity for future biological studies of the group.

Erika received her BS from San Diego State University and her MS from San Francisco State University. At both institutions she was involved in researching the evolution and systematics of arachnid groups. She then pursued a PhD at the University of Colorado Denver, studying the arachnid order Solifugae. Her doctoral research involved understanding the morphological evolution and historical biogeography of four genera of Eremobatidae to inform new taxonomic boundaries.

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Rachel Neve-Midbar

Rachel Neve-Midbar

University of Southern California >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Rachel was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, “Poetics of a Survivor: The Long-Term Effects of Trauma in the Poetry of Holocaust Poet Abba Kovner,” with Professor Amos Goldberg from the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Rachel received her PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California, where her research focused on the poetics of the deep body. Her first full-length book of poems, Salaam of Birds, was published by Tebot Bach.

Rachel plans to work on translating the complete collected poetry of Holocaust survivor and poet Abba Kovner (1918–1987). Kovner was a leader of the Jewish rebellion in the Vilna Ghetto during World War II and the author of the first manifesto naming the Nazi’s intent to eliminate world Jewry. Rarely translated into English, Kovner’s poetry is historically vital, serving as both witness and a record of the long-term trauma that recurs well after the victim is safe from harm.

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Alex “Eli” Pottash

Alex “Eli” Pottash

University of Maryland, College Park >> Weizmann Institute of Science

Alex “Eli” Pottash was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project, “Enabling Inhalation of mRNA Therapies to Treat Lung Disease,” with Professors Yinon Rudich and Gideon Schreiber at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research aims to solve underlying problems in mRNA delivery and could be adapted to the treatment of lung cancer, infection, and other lung diseases.

Eli completed his BS and PhD in bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. In his graduate work under Dr. Steven Jay, he investigated the loading of RNA into extracellular vesicles, which are cell-derived nanoparticles used as vehicles for gene therapy. In addition to the technical aspect of his project, Eli is interested in how culture shapes the invention and acceptance of technologies, such as inhalable drugs.

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Levi Prombaum

Levi Prombaum

University College London >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Levi Prombaum was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project, “Exhibiting & Collecting Palestinian Art in Israeli Art Institutions, 1967–Present.” In this project, he analyzes field-wide patterns of inclusion and omission of Palestinian art and artists within the Israeli art world, with a particular focus on understudied exhibition and collection practices, originating from within Israeli art institutions, that have amplified the perspectives of Palestinian art and artists during the last fifty-five years.

Prior to his studies in Jerusalem, Prombaum was a curator at Colby College Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He was an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and a Getty/ACLS postdoctoral fellow in the history of art. He holds degrees from University College London (PhD in art history), the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA in art history), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA in art history and political science).

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Zachary Sercel

Zachary Sercel

California Institute of Technology >> Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Zachary Sercel was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue “The Development of a Nickel-Catalyzed ‘Cut and Sew’ Ring Expansion of Highly Substituted Cyclopropanes” with Professor Ilan Marek at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The envisioned chemical reaction would, in a single step, transform readily accessible cyclopropanes into valuable, highly substituted cyclopentenes with potential applications in organic synthesis. Zachary’s research interests lie in the synthesis of complex molecules and the development of synthetic methods.

Zachary completed his PhD in chemistry at Caltech, where he primarily studied the total synthesis of a bioactive marine alkaloid. He received a BS in chemistry from California State University, Los Angeles.

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Zily Burstein

Zily Burstein

University of Chicago >> Weizmann Institute of Science

Zily Burstein was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, “The Regulatory Mechanism of DNA Transcription,” with Professor Naama Barkai at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Zily’s main interest is in the physics of complex systems and in the application of physics theory to questions in cellular biology. Her current project in the Barkai Lab seeks to advance our understanding of the dynamics regulating the efficiency and specificity of transcription factor binding to DNA. Zily received her PhD in physics at the University of Chicago, where she developed a model for color vision processing in the visual cortex.

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Chet Bush

Chet Bush

University of Mississippi >> Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chet Bush was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project, “Jerusalem, Sacred Tourism, and the American Civil Rights Movement” at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In this project, he researches the presence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Israel and studies the impact that religious tourism had on the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, the American Civil Rights Movement, and a burgeoning civil rights tourism. He examines religious tourism as a framework for both personal pilgrimage and community economic uplift. 

Prior to his studies in Jerusalem, Bush taught American History at the University of Mississippi. He holds degrees from Trevecca Nazarene University (B.A. in Religion), Nazarene Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and the University of Mississippi (M.A. and Ph.D. in History). His research on the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Mule Train was conducted under the direction of Professor Ted Ownby. 

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Roie Levin

Roie Levin

Carnegie Mellon University >> Tel Aviv University

Roie Levin was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his project “Online and Dynamic Algorithms for Linear Programming” with Dr. Niv Buchbinder at Tel Aviv University. He completed a B.Sc. in Computer Science/Applied Mathematics as well as a B.Sc. in Mathematics at Brown University, after which he spent two years as a predoctoral fellow at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle. Roie's PhD is in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Anupam Gupta. Roie's research spans algorithms for uncertain environments (online/dynamic/streaming algorithms), and submodular optimization (the discrete cousin of convex optimization).

Recent publications:

Gupta, Anupam, Gregory Kehne, and Roie Levin. "Random Order Set Cover is as Easy as Offline." 2021 IEEE 62nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS). IEEE, 2021.

Levin, Roie, and David Wajc. "Streaming Submodular Matching Meets the Primal-Dual Method." Proceedings of the 2021 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2021.

Gupta, Anupam, and Roie Levin. "Fully-Dynamic Submodular Cover with Bounded Recourse." 2020 IEEE 61st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS). IEEE, 2020.

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Julia Reed

Julia Reed

Harvard University >> Bar-Ilan University

Julia Reed will undertake a project entitled "Biblical Bodies: Reading Anatomies in Early Modern Jewish and Christian Medicine" with Professor Yehuda Halper in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University.  She is currently collaborating with Katja Krause’s research group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body," and studies the relationships between the body and the soul in early modern medicine and Christian theology. Julia's PhD is in Religious Studies from Harvard University, and she works at the intersections of the history of medicine, Christian thought and theology, comparative religion, and early modern philosophy. She's particularly interested in the social and epistemic authority of physicians (i.e., how we learn to trust doctors, and about what), the relationships between disease and sin or evil, and how religious and medical authorities intersect, diverge, and come into conflict over time.  Her recent publications include:

“The Weight of Qualities: Quantifying Temperament in Early Modern British Mathematical Medicine,” in Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, Katja Krause, Maria Avxentevskaya, and Dror Weil, eds. Routledge, forthcoming June 2022

"Mechanica Medicina Sacra: Biblical Vegetarianism in Philippe Hecquet’s Theological Medicine." Early Science and Medicine 26, no. 5-6 (2021): 539-560.

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Nicholas Rogers

Nicholas Rogers

Duke University >> Tel Aviv University

Nicholas Rogers was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project entitled, “Disruption of Inter-organismal Communicators (Extracellular Vesicles) by Microplastics” with Dr. Ines Zucker at Tel Aviv University. This research will seek to evaluate the ability of extracellular vesicles (which are membrane-bound particles produced by all cells to mediate inter-cellular or inter-organismal communication) to adsorb to microplastic particles in aquatic systems, which could then interfere with the ways in which microbes communicate with one another.

Nicholas received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a focus on environmental engineering and sustainability at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. His doctoral research was focused on studying extracellular vesicles from yeast and bacteria as colloids to predict/model their fate in agricultural systems.

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Nicolle Simonovic

Nicolle Simonovic

Kent State University >> University of Haifa

Nicolle Simonovic was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her project, “Examining psychological determinants of and cultural factors involved in vaccine hesitancy,” under the mentorship of Dr. Anat Gesser-Edelsburg at the University of Haifa. In this research, she will examine public attitudes and perceptions toward COVID-19 vaccination, including levels of uncertainty and how people think about their risk. She intends to apply this information to inform vaccination interventions and media campaigns. Nicolle received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Sciences from John Carroll University and her PhD in Psychological Sciences with specializations in Social and Health Psychology from Kent State University under the mentorship of Dr. Jennifer M. Taber. 

Recent Publications:

Simonovic, N., & Taber, J. M. (2022). Psychological impact of ambiguous health messages about COVID-19. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 45, 159-171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-021-00266-2

Simonovic, N., & Taber, J. M. (2021). Effects of construal level on responses to ambiguous health information about alcohol consumption. Health Communication, 2, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1945197

Simonovic, N., Taber, J. M., Klein, W. M. P., & Ferrer, R. A. (2020). Evidence that perceiving and being averse to medical ambiguity are distinct constructs: An analysis of nationally representative U.S. data. Health Expectations, 23(3), 603-613. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13037

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Simeon Ehrlich

Simeon David Ehrlich

Stanford University >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Simeon Ehrlich was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship in support of his project, “The Architecture of Late Antique Ashkelon in Theory and Practice”. He studied Classics at The University of Western Ontario (BA, MA), the University of St Andrews (visiting Robert T. Jones, Jr. Scholar), and Stanford University (PhD) and has spent the past several years teaching archaeology and ancient history at Mount Allison University and Concordia University.

Since 2011, he has been a member of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Wheaton College's Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, which excavated thise ancient port city from 1985-2016. His Fulbright research contributes to his volume-in-preparation, Ashkelon: The Roman and Byzantine Periods (Final Reports of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon), which will offer a renewed understanding of southern Israel in the period c. 63 BCE-640 CE. Home to a 6th century CE author named Julian, Ashkelon provides a unique opportunity from late antiquity, to compare the precepts of a surviving treatise on urban planning against the built environment of the city where it was written, and to ascertain whether such texts codify best practices or are more theoretical in nature.

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Vicky Hioureas

Vicky Hioureas

Princeton University >> University of Haifa

Vicky Hioureas was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, “Don’t you see the murderers?: Representations of Violence and the Shaping of Political Consciousness in 12th-century Byzantium”, at the University of Haifa. In her project, she examines depictions of violence across genres (for example, law, chronicles, saints’ lives) in order to understand and analyze hierarchy, ethical values, and political consciousness in Byzantium in the twelfth century. Her PhD research on violence in Byzantium was conducted under the direction of Professor John Haldon at Princeton University.

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Susan E. Lagle

Susan E. Lagle

University of California, Davis >> University of Haifa

Susan Lagle was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project, "Zooarchaeological Analysis of Fauna from the Middle Paleolithic Site of Tinshemet Cave, Israel", with Dr. Reuven Yeshurun at the University of Haifa.

Her PhD research, conducted in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Davis (advisor: Dr. Teresa E. Steele), focused on the Middle Paleolithic archaeological record of southwestern France, where she studied how Neanderthal hunting and prey processing decisions interacted with mobility and stone tool technology during glacial periods. She has conducted archaeological fieldwork and laboratory analyses in France and South Africa and will bring this expertise to Israel where she will investigate the subsistence behavior of the Middle Paleolithic occupants of Tinshemet Cave by studying the faunal (animal bone) remains from the recently discovered archaeological site. She will also compare Tinshemet Cave with other Israeli sites in the southern Levant to better understand behavioral similarities and differences between modern humans and Neanderthals who have both occupied this unique geographic region.

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Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch

Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch

University of Pennsylvania >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project, "Nurse Practitioner Integration into the Israeli Healthcare System" at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. There, he is joining Professor Moriah Ellen's research group in the Department of Health Systems Management. His project explores barriers and facilitators to implementing the new nurse practitioner role in Israel. Josh aims to leverage this research to explore potential solutions that can help better position nurse practitioners to enhance healthcare access and quality.

Joshua is a registered nurse and received his PhD in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research with the mentorship of Dr. Linda Aiken. Throughout his research work, Josh has focused on healthcare systems, the nursing workforce, nursing education, and patient care outcomes.

Joshua’s recent publications Include:

Porat-Dahlerbruch, J., Aiken, L., Todd, B., Cunningham, R., Brom, H., Peele, M., McHugh, M. (2022). Evaluation of the Affordable Care Act graduate nurse education demonstration. Health Affairs, 41(1), 86-95. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01328

Porat-Dahlerbruch, J., Aiken, L., Lasater, K., Sloane, D., McHugh, M. (2022). Variations in nursing baccalaureate education and 30-day inpatient surgical mortality. Nursing Outlook, 70(2), 298-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2021.09.009

Porat-Dahlerbruch, J., Arnold, O., Lamoreaux, J., Flores, D., Hodgson, N. (2021). Implementation and preliminary evaluation of a nursing PhD constellation mentorship model. Nursing Outlook, 69(6), 1090-1100. 

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Christopher Prejean

Christopher Prejean

University of California, Los Angeles >> University of Haifa

Christopher Prejean was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project entitled, “The Hermeneutical Christian in Ḥanbalī Thought”. He began his research on this project at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his PhD. As a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Haifa, he will expand his research with the aim of understanding how legal works of the Ḥanbalī School of Law perpetuate and construct a characterization of Christians. In doing so, he seeks to understand how Christians serve a larger moral, philosophical, or theological purpose as legal subjects of Islamic law. His work transcends field-specific studies, making accessible the tools from the study of Christianity to the field of Islamic studies.

Christopher's recent publications include:

Prejean, C. (forthcoming). Baghdad in the Mediterranean World. In Jeanette Fregulia (Ed.), Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean 470-1350.

Prejean, C. (2019). [Review of the book Between Christ and Caliph: Law Marriage and Christian Community in Early Islam by Lev Weitz]. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 50, 243-248. https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2019.0009.

Prejean, C. (2019). Abū Bakr al-Khallāl. In B. Roggema and Alexandra Cuffel (Eds.), Jewish-Christian Relations: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. A Source History (600-1800).

Prejean, C. (2019). Abū Bakr al-Khallāl. In J. Meri (Ed.), Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia.

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Zachary M. Rubin

Zachary M. Rubin

Brown University >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Zachary Rubin was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project entitled, "The Intricate Foundations of Heaven: Changing Perceptions of the Gods in Sumerian Lamentation Texts" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with Professor Uri Gabbay. This project will examine developments in divine litanies found in Mesopotamian cultic laments as they were transmitted and reedited over the course of the first and second millennia BCE. As such, it will demonstrate the ways in which changes in the Mesopotamian religion and culture were manifested through regular cultic practice.

Zachary received a BA in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations at the Johns Hopkins University, an MA in Assyriology at the University of Toronto, and recently completed a PhD in Assyriology at Brown University. His PhD dissertation examined the cult of the scribal god Nabû in the Neo-Assyrian Period (ca. 934 - 612 BCE) within the context of Neo-Assyrian society.

Zachary's recent publications include:

"The Sages and the Sons of Nippur: an Edition of LKA 76 (VAT 13839) from Assur," Journal of Cuneiform Studies (in press)].

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Paul B. Sharp

Paul B. Sharp

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Paul Sharp was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project entitled, "Using artificial intelligence models of planning to understand human worry" with Professor Eran Eldar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This work will investigate how recent artificial intelligence insight regarding human planning can be extended to the study of distorted planning in human worry.

Before starting the Fulbright award, Paul completed two years of postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London. His work in London investigated algorithmic accounts of anxious behavior and thought, including new models of how individuals learn biased models of the world that might help explain pathological belief formation. Prior to his postdoctoral work, Paul completed his PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Paul's recent publications include:

Sharp P.B., Miller, G.A., Dolan R.J., Eldar E. Towards formal models of psychopathological traits that explain symptom trajectories. (2020). BMC Medicine.

Sharp, P.B., & Eldar., E. Computational explanations of anxiety: Nascent efforts and future directions. (2019) Current Directions in Psychological Science.

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Tomer Langberg

Tomer Langberg

University of California, Berkeley >> Tel Aviv University

Tomer Langberg was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project titled, ‘Dysregulated excitability as a pathogenic mechanism of Alzheimer’s Disease,’ with Inna Slutsky’s neuroscience laboratory at Tel Aviv University. This work will explore how changes to the synaptic connections between neurons might underlie the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease.

His PhD research was conducted at the University of California, Berkeley where he tested how changes to neuronal excitation and inhibition are coordinated in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and intellectual disability. Prior to his PhD, Tomer researched the genetic inheritance of epilepsy susceptibility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later tested inducible genetic strategies that drive resistance to mood disorders at Harvard University.

Tomer’s recent publications include:

Antoine, M. W., Langberg, T., Schnepel, P., & Feldman, D. E. (2019). Increased excitation-inhibition ratio stabilizes synapse and circuit excitability in four autism mouse models. Neuron, 101(4), 648-661.

Laboy-Juárez, K. J., Langberg, T., Ahn, S., & Feldman, D. E. (2019). Elementary motion sequence detectors in whisker somatosensory cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 22(9), 1438-1449.

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Roni Masel

Roni Masel

New York University >> Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Roni Masel is a 2020 post-doctoral fellow at the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and recently completed her PhD in Jewish Studies at New York University. Roni is currently working on a manuscript, Disruptive Pleasure: Violence and the Grotesque in Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures, which considers fictionalized episodes of anti-Jewish violence in Hebrew and Yiddish, and formulates a new way of writing a joint historiography of both literatures in central and eastern Europe. Her research interests also include: diaspora and the diasporic turn in Jewish studies, translation studies, history and materiality of the book, and queer and postcolonial theory.

Roni’s work appeared or is forthcoming in Studies in YiddishMikan va-eylakh and Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Her research was supported by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Taub Center for Israel Studies, and Jordan Center for the Study of Russia.

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Camilah Powell

Camilah Powell

Rice University >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Camilah Powell was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, entitled “The Living & Self-Cleaning Water Treatment Membrane”, at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, where she will join the research group of Professor Christopher J. Arnusch. Her project investigates the development of a magnetically responsive membrane that can facilitate a self-cleaning function upon exposure to an external magnetic field. Camilah received her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Rice University under the tutelage of Professor Michael S. Wong.

She conducted her Ph.D. at the NSF funded Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) ERC, where she developed a magnetic nanoparticle recovery water treatment system and exploited the magnetic properties of nano-sized materials for water-related catalysis and adsorption.

Camilah’s Recent Publications Include:

Powell, C. D., Atkinson, A. J., Ma, Y., Marcos-Hernandez, M., Villagran, D. Westerhoff, P., Wong, M.S., (2020). Magnetic Nanoparticle Recovery Device (MagNERD) Enables Application of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Water Treatment. The Journal of Nanoparticle Research. 22(2), 48.

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Thomas Prendergast

Thomas Prendergast

Duke University >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Thomas Prendergast was awarded the Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project titled ""The First Imperial Turn: Habsburg Sociology and the European Nation-State, 1870-1914" at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with Dr. Dimitry Shumsky. This research asks how European actors sought to legitimize multinational statehood in the face of new, nation-centric political and legal theories around the turn of the twentieth century. He answers this question by analyzing the production and circulation of the concept of “empire" in and between East Central Europe, Western Europe and the wider non-European world.

Recent citation: Thomas R. Prendergast, "The Sociological Idea of the State: Legal Education, Austrian Multinationalism, and the Future of Continental Empire, 1880-1814," Comparative Studies in Society and History 2020;62(2):1–32 (forthcoming).

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Ariel Resnikoff

Ariel Resnikoff

University of Pennsylvania >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ariel Resnikoff was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project entitled “Excavating the Translingual-Hebrew Archive: With Special Reference to the Collected Papers of Avot Yeshurun and Harold Schimmel.” As a Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he will continue his investigation, translation and digitization of key materials by the poets, Avot Yeshurun (1904-1992) and Harold Schimmel (b. 1935), most notably, organizing for the first time Harold Schimmel’s collected papers into a cohesive and searchable archive.

Ariel received his PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. His writing has been translated into Russian, French, Spanish and German, and a long excerpt of his doctoral dissertation, Home Tongue Earthquake: The Radical Afterlives of Yiddishland, recently came out in the Berlin-based magazine, Schreibheft, Zeitschrift für Literatur. His first full length poetry collection, Unnatural Bird Migrator, is forthcoming with the Operating System in 2020.

Ariel’s most recent critical publications include:

“Modernism of the Jewish Ashkenazi Diaspora.” 2019. Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology. Bloomsbury Academic. Print. -“Rudder to Rudder: Toward A Spectral Creole-Hebrew Poetics.” 2019. Protocols. No. 5, special issue on Tikkun/Repair. Online.

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David Weinreich

David Weinreich

University of Michigan >> Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

David Weinreich was awarded the Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research under the tutelage of Professor Karel Martens at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

David earned his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the impact that governance and financial structures can have on accessibility to jobs and essential services, particularly for disadvantaged populations. David’s Fulbright research deals with cross-national norms and institutions that support public transit systems in Israel and EU countries, and the cross-jurisdictional structures in place for ensuring robust public transport access and coverage. This applies both to traditional public transit services and new publicly-supported on-demand systems. The Fulbright fellowship will allow Weinreich to conduct international comparative work, providing a better understanding of the structures that make public transit more robust in Israel and the EU.

Recent Publication:

Weinreich, D.; Skuzinski, T.; Hamidi, S. (2019). “Organizing Transit Institutions to Facilitate Cross-Jurisdictional Service Integration: A Multi-Region Comparative Case Study.” Journal of Urban Affairs. (Accepted for Upcoming Publication).

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Hillary Craddock

Hillary Craddock

University of Maryland >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Hillary Craddock was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, titled “Assessing antibiotic resistance in Israeli Bedouin communities at the nexus of wastewater management, livestock health, and agricultural products” at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. During this project, she will investigate antibiotic resistant bacteria in wastewater produced by Bedouin communities in the Negev, as well as the transmission of antibiotic resistant bacteria to livestock and agricultural products. Her PhD research was performed in Professor Amy Sapkota’s lab as part of the CONSERVE Center of Excellence at the Nexus of Sustainable Water Reuse, Food, and Health, and her research focused on off-grid wastewater treatment for agricultural reuse, antibiotic and herbicide residues in greywater, antibiotic resistant bacteria in greywater, and the consumer acceptance of wastewater reuse. Upon completion of her PhD, Hillary accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Jacob Moran-Gilad’s laboratory.

Hillary’s recent publications include:

Panthi, S., Sapkota, A. R., Raspanti, G., Allard, S., Bui, A., Craddock, H. C., ... & Callahan, M. T. (2019). "Pharmaceuticals, herbicides, and disinfectants in agricultural water sources". Environmental Research. (In press)

Craddock, H. A., Huang, D., Turner, P. C., Quirós-Alcalá, L., & Payne-Sturges, D. C. (2019). "Trends in neonicotinoid pesticide residues in food and water in the United States, 1999– 2015". Environmental Health, 18(1), 7.

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Allyson Gonzalez

Allyson Gonzalez

Yale University >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Allyson Gonzalez was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, “Petitions of Love: Antisemitism and Modern Sephardi Citizenship,” at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This research examines the affective practices of modern Sephardi citizenship based on extensive archival research and periodicals from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Working under the supervision of David Bunis, and in dialogue with other local scholars, Gonzalez will study the connections between antisemitism, the rise of modern philo-Sephardism, and modern Sephardi emigration and naturalization. From 2017 to 2019, Gonzalez was the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Fellow for Modern Jewish Studies at Yale University.

Allyson’s recent publications include:

“Abraham S. Yahuda (1877-1951) and the Politics of Modern Jewish Scholarship,” Jewish Quarterly Review (forthcoming, summer 2019).

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Leilah Krounbi

Leilah Krounbi

Cornell University >> Weizmann Institute of Science

Leilah Krounbi was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project titled “Patterned nucleation and crystal growth mediated by organic macromolecules: searching for nature’s instruction manual” at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. In elucidating the function of polysaccharides during nucleation and growth of calcite in cellular vesicles of marine phytoplankton, we hope to identify general mechanisms for biochemical templating of unique crystal structures.

Her PhD research was conducted at Cornell University in the lab of Johannes Lehmann, together with stakeholders of the Gates’ Foundation ‘Reinvent the Toilet Project’. Working in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, she created a novel fertilizer by pyrolyzing the solid fraction of human waste into which nitrogen salts were precipitated from ammonia volatilizing from urine, and carbon dioxide emitted from the pyrolysis reactor. Through her postdoctoral research with Dr. Assaf Gal at the Weizmann Institute, she hopes to broaden her knowledge and practice of analytical tools toward the development of biological crystal membranes for water treatment.

Leilah's Recent publications include:

Krounbi, L., van Es, H., Karanja, N. and Lehmann, J., 2018. Nitrogen and Phosphorus Availability of Biologically and Thermochemically Decomposed Human Wastes and Urine in Soils With Different Texture and pH. Soil Science, 183(2), pp.51-65.

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Vivian A. Laughlin

Vivian A. Laughlin

Andrews University >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Vivian A. Laughlin was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, titled “Serapis and Isis in Ancient Judea and Palestine” under Professor Orit Peleg- Barkat at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. This research will continue her dissertation’s evidence of Roman emperors using religious and imperial influence through the appropriation of various deities, specifically Serapis and Isis. However, this post-doctoral project investigates two particular aspects of the cults of Serapis and Isis: first, the diasporic evidence of the Hellenistic-Egyptian cults of Serapis and Isis as they moved from Hellenistic-Egypt to Judea and Palestine; and second, indications of the cults of Serapis and Isis within a Romanized ancient Judean and Palestinian society.

Vivian’s recent publications include:

Laughlin, Vivian A., 2016. "The Architectural Patronage and Political Prowess of Herod the Great". Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 3.2: 13-24.

Laughlin, Vivian A., 2015. "A Brief Overview of al Jinn within Islamic Cosmology and Religiosity". Journal of Adventist Mission Studies 11: 67-78.

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Carl Merrigan

Carl Merrigan

Brandeis University >> Tel Aviv University

Carl Merrigan was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project titled “The Role of Particle Shape and Crowding for Dynamics of Dense Active Materials” at Tel Aviv University, where he will join the research group of Professor Yair Shokef. This research will seek to elucidate the effects of active self-propulsion forces on the dynamics of dense liquids near to glass transitions by using efficient Monte Carlo simulations.

His PhD research was conducted at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, in which he studied assemblies of self-propelled cross-shaped particles to investigate the nonequilibrium dynamical arrest created when particles do not rotate, or when neighboring particles block each other from rotating. This research was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Bulbul Chakraborty.

Carl’s recent publications include:

R. Chatterjee, N. Segall, C. Merrigan, K. Ramola, B. Chakraborty, and Y. Shokef. Motion of active tracer particle in a lattice gas with cross-shaped particles. J. Chem. Phys. (under review) (2018).

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Rivkah Rogawski

Rivkah Rogawski

Columbia University >> Weizmann Institute of Science

Rivkah Rogawski was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project titled “The Link Between Metabolism and Protein Degradation via the 20S Proteasome” at the Weizmann Institute of Science. This research will investigate the role of the free 20S proteasome in the cellular response to metabolic stress. Her Ph.D. research was conducted in the lab of Ann McDermott at Columbia University and focused on applications of dynamic nuclear polarization solid state NMR. Upon completion of her Ph.D., Rivkah accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Michal Sharon’s laboratory.

Rivka’s recent publications include:

Rogawski, R. Zhang, Y., Tran, T.H., Sergeyev, I., Li, Y., Tong, L., and McDermott, A.E. NMR Signal Quenching from Bound Biradical Affinity Reagents in DNP Samples. J. Phys. Chem. B (2017) 121:10770-10781

Rogawski, R.* Sergeyev, I.*; Li, Y; Ottoviani, F; Cornish, V; McDermott, A (2017). DNP Signal Enhancement with High Affinity Biradical Tags. J. Phys. Chem. B (2017) 121: 1169-1175.

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Brian Ross

Brian Ross

Johns Hopkins University >> Weizmann Institute of Science

Brian Ross was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project entitled “Directed co-evolution of protein kinases and their substrates” at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel in the laboratory of Professor Dan Tawfik. In the course of the project, he will study how new signaling pathways evolve through changes of specificity of enzymes to their substrates. Specifically, he will be studying a family of enzymes called eukaryotic protein kinases, which form signaling cascades that are responsible for allowing a cell to process information from its environment and respond. By mimicking natural evolution of enzymes in the lab using directed evolution techniques, he aims to uncover the fundamental principles behind emergence of new protein kinase cascades in the evolutionary process.

He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (which included research at University of California, San Diego, as well) in the laboratory of Professor Jin Zhang, where he developed fluorescent protein-based genetically encodable tools for monitoring cell signaling activities, such as protein kinase activity, in real time in live cells.

Brian’s recent publications include:

R. Hard, N. Li, W. He, B. Ross, G. C. H. Mo, Q. Peng, R. Stein, E. Conives, Y. Wang, J. Zhang, W. Wang. “Deciphering and Engineering Chromodomain-Methyllysine Peptide Recognition.” Science Advances. Vol 4, no. 11: eaau1447 (2018).

B. L. Ross, B. Tenner, M. L. Markwardt, A. Zviman, G. Shi, J. P. Kerr, N. Snell, J. McFarland, J. Mauban, C. W. Ward, M. A. Rizzo, J. Zhang. “Single-Color, Ratiometric Biosensors for Detecting Signaling Activities in Live Cells.” eLife, 7: e35458 (2018).

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Abby Wells

Abby Wells

Alvernia University >> University of Haifa

Abby Wells was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project titled “What should we think about making aliyah? Racial minoritization and Ethiopian absorption since the modern period” under Professor Uri Ben-Eliezer at the University of Haifa. This project investigates how immigration to Israel functions differently for black and brown Jewish people, taking as its foundation a critical engagement with late nineteenth to twenty-first century sources of Ethiopian Jewish history, identity, and absorption.

Her PhD research was conducted under the direction of Professor Tim H. Blessing at Alvernia University and focused on narrative discourse raised by critical historical perspectives on black Jewish life in the Americas. A leadership scholar and ethnohistorian, Abby seeks to bring new attention to the development of a subfield of black Jewish history within Jewish studies.

Abby’s recent publications include:

Wells, E. A. (2013). "What is HR leadership?: A twenty-first century perspective". Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership, 11(2), 1-7

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Kenny Kolander

Kenny Kolander

West Virginia University >> University of Haifa

Kenneth Kolander was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project, The Military-Industrial Peace Process: Congress, the Executive, and the U.S.-Israel Special Relationship, 1967-1979, at the University of Haifa. This research will explore the influence of the United States on the Arab-Israeli peace process, seen through the often-neglected perspective of Congress, with a focus on the paradox of weapons sales connected to peace negotiations. His PhD research was conducted at West Virginia University under the supervision of Prof. James Siekmeier.

Kenneth's Recent publications include:

“Phantom Peace: Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, J. William Fulbright, and Military Sales to Israel,” Diplomatic History, Volume 41, Issue 3, June 2017, p. 567-593.

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Jacob Newberry

Jacob Newberry

Florida State University >> Bar-Ilan University

Jacob Newberry was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project, titled “Queer Refugees in Israel,” at Bar Ilan University. During this project he will interview LGBT people who have fled their home countries to seek safety and acceptance in Tel Aviv. Using the works of Joan Didion as a model, he will write a series of connected essays detailing the experiences of these individuals in the context of the larger migration crisis. The essays produced will not be works of pure journalism but will be a mix of the reported and the personal. His project will further explore the phenomenon of internal Israeli queer migration, from small towns to Tel Aviv, by interviewing and writing about the performers who have long been the guardians of queer culture: drag queens.

Jacob’s recent publications include:

“The Godmother of Jerusalem Drag,” Tablet Magazine (2016); “A Sky That Carries,” Poetry Daily (2013); “What You Will Do,” Ploughshares (2012); “Drag Queen in the Holy City,” Out Magazine (2012); and Summer,” Granta (2012).

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Kevin Rothman

Kevin (Hayyim) Rothman

Boston College >> Bar-Ilan University

Kevin (Hayyim) Rothman was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project titled “No Kings but the Lord: Varieties of Jewish Religious Anarchism” at Bar Ilan University. This research will investigate, first, biblical and rabbinic sources for an anarchist interpretation of Judaism, and then the various was in which these were applied by rabbis and other members of the traditional community during the late 19th and early twentieth centuries. His PhD research focused on contemporary readings of Spinoza in neomarxist political theory. He endeavored to show that radical interpretation of Spinoza would be better served by appeal to the anarchist tradition.

Kevin’s recent publications include:

“Concerning the Paradox of Nietzsche's Transvaluation of the Figure of the Wandering Jew.” In (mis)Reading Nietzsche. Edited by M.S. Clemente and B.J. Cocchiara. Eugene: Wipf & Stock. (forthcoming).

Salkind, J.M. “War and the Jewish Question.” Translated by Hayyim Rothman. In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. (forthcoming) Mokdoni, A. “Memoirs.” Translated by Hayyim Rothman. In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. (forthcoming).

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Erika Tritle

Erika Tritle

University of Chicago >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Erika Tritle was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, titled “Interpreting Flesh: How Christian Theology Embraced Race in the Fifteenth Century,” at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. This research will investigate the way debates over the nature of Jewish lineage, spurred by the presence of large numbers of baptized Jews and their descendants following anti-Jewish violence and mass conversions, contended with traditional doctrines about the nature of the Church and informed the political development of late medieval Spain.! The study will contribute to academic debates regarding the history of the idea of race and its relationship to antisemitism.

Erika’s recent publications include:

“A Jewish Solution to the Problem of Excessive Christian Virility in the War against Spanish Islam,” in Crusading Masculinities, Natasha Hodgson, Katherine J. Lewis, and Matthew Mesley eds. Crusades – Subsidia. London: Routledge (2018).

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José Villegas

José Villegas

University of Pennsylvania >> Weizmann Institute of Science

José Villegas was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project titled “Elucidating Structure-Function Relationships at Protein-Protein Interfaces” at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research will investigate the minimal structural requirements for priming new interactions in non-interacting proteins through a combination of computational modeling and in vivo experiments. His PhD research was performed in Professor Jeffery Savens’s group and focused on the computational design of protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions. José has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Emmanuel Levy’s laboratory.  

Recent publications include:

H. V. Zhang, F. Polzer, M. J. Haider, Y. Tian, J. A. Villegas, K. L. Kiick, D. J. Pochan, J. G. Saven, Computationally designed peptides for self-assembly of nanostructured lattices. Sci. Adv.2 e1600307 (2016). 

 

 

 

 

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Liat Gafni Lachter

Liat Gafni Lachter

Boston University >> University of Haifa

Liat Gafni Lachter was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project titled “Promoting Family-Centered Care: Measuring the Effect of an Interdisciplinary Intervention” at the University of Haifa, Israel. During the study, she will implement a training program for interdisciplinary healthcare providers while measuring change in participants’ clinical skills and expertise in provision of family-centered care. Liat’s doctoral studies took place at Boston University and focused on promoting quality healthcare by means of interdisciplinary education and mentoring. These studies were conducted under the supervision of Prof. Ellen Cohn and Prof. Karen Jacobs. Liat is an occupational therapist and aspires to see the findings of this study be integrated into everyday clinical practice with children and their families.

Recent publications include:

Gafni Lachter, L. (2017). Legislation and reimbursement of occupational therapy services.  In K. Jacobs, & N. MacRae, N. (Eds.) Occupational therapy essentials for clinical competence. Thorofare, NJ: Slack Incorporated.

Gafni Lachter, L. (2016). Better Together: Advancing Family Centered Care. Germany: Lambart Academic Publishing, 212 pages. ISBN-10 3659855545.

Rosenblum, S. & Gafni Lachter, L. (2015) Handwriting Proficiency Screening Questionnaire for Children (HPSQC): development, reliability, and validity. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2015.014761.

Prast, J., Herlache-Pretzer, E., Frederick, A. & Gafni Lachter, L (2015). Practical strategies for integrating interprofessional education and collaboration into the curriculum. Occupational Therapy in Healthcare, 1-9. 

 

 

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Maayan Stavans

Maayan Stavans

University of Illinois >> Bar-Ilan University

Maayan Stavans was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, titled “Young children’s conceptualization of leadership”, at Bar-Ilan University. This research will investigate young children’s concepts of and attitudes towards leadership in social groups. Her PhD research was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Renée Baillargeon at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and focused on two lines of research. In one, she explored early reasoning about leadership, investigating whether infants possess different expectations about the behaviors of leaders and subordinates towards others. In the other, she explored early physical reasoning, investigating how infants represent what objects are where in a scene and how objects generally interact.

Recent Publication:

Stavans, M., & Baillargeon, R. (in press). 4-month-old infants individuate and track simple tools following functional demonstrations. Developmental Science. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12500

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Michael Wine

Michael Wine

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Rachel Friedman

Rachel Friedman

Harvard University >> Tel Aviv University

Rachel Friedman received her B.A. in Social Studies, her J.D., and her Ph.D. in Government, all from Harvard University.  Her dissertation, written under Professors Harvey Mansfield, Michael Sandel, and Richard Tuck, explored the origins and evolution of the idea of social insurance, specifically as it emerged from mathematical probability theory.  Her Fulbright project, entitled “The Israeli Welfare State in Historical and Philosophical Context: Risk, Distributive Justice, and the Challenges of Universal Social Insurance,” will test some of the theoretical insights of her doctoral work through a study of Israel’s social insurance system.  She will pursue her research at the Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Professor Hanoch Dagan and as part of a cohort of researchers examining the ethical and legal aspects of markets.

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Sarah Kostinski

Sarah Kostinski

Harvard University >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sarah Kostinski was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project entitled “Controlled wave propagation in a complex medium” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  During this project she will investigate the mechanisms by which transmission of visible light through disordered media is enhanced.  Her PhD research on soft matter and optical systems was conducted under the supervision of Professor Michael P. Brenner at Harvard University.  Sarah will continue studies on optics in Professor Yaron Bromberg’s laboratory at the Hebrew University’s Racah Institute of Physics as a postdoctoral researcher.

Recent publications include:

Yang, Y., Miroshnichenko, A.E., Kostinski, S.V., Odit, M., Kapitanova, P., Qiu, M., and Kivshar, Y.S. “Multimode directionality in all-dielectric metasurfaces.” To appear in Physical Review B (2017).

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Zackary Wainer

Zackary Wainer

Brown University >> The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Adrea Gonzalez-Karlsson

Adrea Gonzalez-Karlsson

University of California >> Tel Aviv University

Adrea Gonzalez-Karlsson received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to fund her research project, “Male moth mate preference in relation to female quality and cost of flight,” at the Volcani Center for Agricultural Research and Tel Aviv University in Israel.  This project will investigate male preference for female characteristics and condition dependency of female pheromone production.  Adrea received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles where she studied visual and chemical communication in a tribe of Neotropical butterflies, Ithomiini.  She got her BA from the University of California, Berkeley. 

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Michael Carlson

Michael Carlson

University of Washington >> Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Michael Carlson was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue his research on marine viruses. His research focuses on how viruses affect microscopic photosynthetic plankton in the ocean in order to understand their impact on global chemical cycles, food-web dynamics, and microbial evolution. He will continue his research on marine viruses, but with a different phytoplankton host, marine cyanobacteria, which are the most abundant photosynthetic organisms on the planet. His project is entitled “The best predators in the ocean: Quantifying the impact of virally encoded host and auxiliary genes on the infection dynamics and ecology of marine cyanophage”. In his Ph.D. research, he isolated a novel virus infecting a toxic marine diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia, and used genomic techniques to understand the lifestyles of diatom-infecting viruses both in the lab and in the environment.Michael Carlson received his B.A. in biology and history from Pomona College in Claremont, California and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

A recent publication from highlighting this work is Carlson MC, McCary ND, Leach TS and Rocap G (2016). Pseudo-nitzschia challenged with co-occurring viral communities display diverse infection phenotypes. Front. Microbiol. 7:527. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00527. 

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Ronald Udasin

Ronald Udasin

Rutgers University >> Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Ronald Udasin was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project, titled “Regulation of the Xenobiotic Transporters by the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System: Implications for the Efficiency of Chemotherapeutic Agents,” at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. During this project, he will investigate the mechanisms by which efflux transporters – proteins that catalyze the ATP-dependent export of cytotoxic agents such as cancer chemotherapeutics – are degraded with an eye towards interventions in order increase the intracellular concentration and thus efficacy of anticancer compounds. Ronald received his BS in chemical engineering from Cornell University and his PhD in toxicology from Rutgers Unviersity. His PhD research was performed in Professor Jeffrey Laskin's Group and focused on the effects of inhibition of the efflux transporter multidrug resistance-associated protein 1 (MRP1) on the toxicity of the chemical warfare agents sulfur mustard (mustard gas) and nitrogen mustard. Upon completion of his PhD, Ronald accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Aaron Ciechanover's laboratory.

His recent publications include: Udasin RG, Wen X, Bircsak KM, Aleksunes LM, Shakarjian MP, Kong AN, Heck DE, Laskin DL, Laskin JD. “Nrf2 Regulates the Sensitivity of Mouse Keratinocytes to Nitrogen Mustard via Multidrug Resistance-Associated Protein 1 (Mrp1).” Toxiclogical Sciences, 149(1), 2016, 202-12.

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Steven Britt

North Carolina State University >> Tel Aviv University

Steven Britt was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project in Mathematics.

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Alyssa Findlay

University of Delaware >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Alyssa Findlay was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, entitled Study of Multiple Sulfur Isotope Fractionation in the Water Column and Sediments of Lake Kinneret. 

At Ben-Gurion, Findlay will learn new instrumental techniques and methods to measure sulfur species using isotopic measurements.

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Lonia Friedlander

Stony Brook University >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Lonia Friedlander was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project, entitled Fusing Field, Laboratory, and Remote Sensing Analysis to Understand and Map the Transport and Fate of Heavy Metals Released by Electronic Waste Processing. 

Lonia will be using remote sensing and field spectroscopic methods to evaluate environmental geochemistry in the region as well as the extent and spread of contaminants released by informal e-waste processing.

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Kyle Knabb

University of California, San Diego >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Kyle Knabb was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project on Prehistoric Social and Environmental Change in the Negev Desert of Southern Israel: Subsistence, Ecology, and Economy.

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Andrew Pilecki

University of California, Santa Cruz >> Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)

Andrew Pilecki was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project in Contemptible Victimhood and the Justification of Violence. He will examine how different groups justify violence on moral terms.

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Nathan Walton

University of Utah >> Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Nathan Walton was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research in Nanochemistry & Nanotechnology. The project is titled Development of Photocatalytic, Hollow, Heterostructure Nanoparticles for Highly Effective Hydrogen Production.

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Elizabeth Warburton

Western Michigan University >> Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker Campus

Elizabeth Warburton was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her research project in Biology. 

She will work with Professor Boris Krasnov, a leading international expert in parasitology.

Warburton will study the fitness costs of parasitism in Meriones crassus, a desert rodent, which is native to the area. Fitness refers to the natural selection of traits that impact future generations of species.

Warburton has received accolades from the American Society of Parasitologists, the American Society of Mammalogists, the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists and the Annual Midwestern Conference of Parasitologists. She has received awards for outstanding research at Emporia State and WMU. Her recent publication includes an article in Oikos on the patterns of parasite community dissimiliarity, which examines the significant role of land use and lack of distance-decay in a bat-helminth system. 

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David Wernick

University of California, Los Angeles >> Weizmann Institute of Science

David Wernick was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research in Biology.

Dr. Wernick has focused on applying biology to solve engineering problems, culminating in engineering microbial metabolism for efficient production of gasoline-alternative biofuels from wastes, and studying carbon fixation to aid removal of CO2 from the air and increase crop biomass. He has filed three patent applications.

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