Dr Angy Cohen

Dr Angy Cohen

Pronouns: She/her

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Location

Office: ES840

Background

Biography

I am a researcher on contemporary Israeli society with a focus on the Sephardi/Mizrahi experience. My research deals with personal narratives and identity construction.  My research interests include contemporary Sephardi culture and the specificities of Sephardi modernity. 

I received my PhD in 2017 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Autonomous University of Madrid, in a Joint PhD program. My doctoral dissertation was a comparative ethnographic study of life stories among Spanish-Moroccan Jews that emigrated to Israel and Argentina. In the last two years, I have been working on personal narratives of Sephardi/Mizrahi women and the development of the so-called "traditionist feminism" in Israel. 

I have held postdoctoral positions at the School of Cultural Studies of Tel Aviv University and the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies at Concordia University (Montreal). 

Research

Areas of Research

Israel

Contemporary Israeli society and intra-Jewish conflict

Ethnography

Feminist ethnography, epistemic collaborations 

Feminism

Non-western feminist initiatives, "traditionist feminism", religious feminism, Sephardi/Mizrahi feminism 

Judaism

Women in Jewish thought

Sephardi modernity

Processes of modernization in the Sephardi world; colonialism. 

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
RELS 373.16 Women and Judaism Winter 2022

Projects

Israel’s Mizrahi Struggle in the Eyes of Moroccan Jews in the Hispanic world

Sol Leshin Program for Collaboration between the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel/University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in Plant Sciences and Social Sciences &Humanities 2020


Cultural borders in a global world: comparative anthropology of cultural limits and their socio-political consequences

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. 

Awards

  • Belzberg Postdoctoral Associate in Israel Studies, University of Calgary. 2020
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship , Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Concordia University. 2019
  • Dean's Distinction Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tel Aviv University. 2018
  • Gaon Prize for projects about Judeo-Spanish culture and history. Category: PhD. , Moshe David Gaon Center of Judeo-Spanish Culture, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.. 2016
  • Doctoral fellowship in Jewish Studies, Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. 2014
  • Doctoral grant, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2021

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