PhD Students

Jan Thorben Wilkens (UP), Queer Jewish Groups in Europe (1972-1990s): Creating a Movement under American Influence (2023)Katja Martin (UP): Beerdigen oder Verbrennen? Zur Beteiligung von Jüdinnen und Juden am Reformprojekt Feuerbestattung im Deutschen Kaiserreich (2022)
Bernhard Holl (UP): Die Verteidigung der iberischen Neuchristen im 15. Jahrhundert (2022)
Tanja Zakrzewski (UP): Conversos and Moriscos: Identity and Violence in Early Modern Granada (2021)
Johannes Czakai (FUB, co-advising), Nochems fünf Namen. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Namen der Juden in Galizien und der Bukowina, 1772-1809 (2020)
Davide Liberatoscioli (UP): Juden ohne Päpste. Inklusion und Judenfeindlichkeit zwischen Rom und Avignon (2019)
Jens Temmen (UP, co-advising): The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialisms. Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing (2019)

Francesco Testa (UP), Contra a Cristandade. The Portuguese Jews’ Polemics against Christianity in Amsterdam (1620-1680) (Cotutelle with the Universidade de Lisboa; since 2024)
Mbarak Zaheran (UP), Jewish Community in Between Colonialism and Arabism in Tunisia. The Role of Education in the Jewish Narrative Between 1923 and 1957 (Cotutelle with the University of Antwerp; since 2024)
Alina Schittenhelm (UP): Jenseits von Zion. Kultur, Nation und Identität in der mizrahischen Literatur (since 2021)
Adem Muzaffer Erol (UP), Turkey Rooted Jews in Israel: Migration and Identity Construction (since 2019)
Yael Attia (UP), The Colonial Other of Jewish Political Thought (since 2019)
Jonathan Hirsch (UP), Writing Jewish History in Interwar Egypt (since 2018)
Julian Holter (UP), Politische Ökonomie bei jüdischen Denkern der Frühen Neuzeit (since 2016)