APP Professor, Ella Shohat, was invited to serve as Co-Head Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on the theme of “Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity” for the 2022-2023 academic year.
"In the upcoming year, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies will focus on the theme of “Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity.” Under the leadership of co-head fellows Ruth Tsoffar, U-M Professor of Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and Judaic Studies, and Ella Shohat, professor of cultural studies at New York University, thirteen scholars from three countries will explore interdisciplinary and intersectional conversations on the meaning of ethnicity in the study of Mizrahi (Arab-Jewish) culture. The group consists of a dynamic forum of scholars from a variety of disciplines aiming to reflect and further expand, diversify, and theorize the discussion of Jewish/Israeli society and culture."